Resource Extraction and Conflict in Latin America
Publisher: Colombia Internacional
Author(s): John Andrew McNeish
Date: 2018
Topics: Conflict Causes, Extractive Resources
Countries: Colombia
In this edition of Colombia Internacional analysis is made of the current wave of socio-environmental conflicts that has resulted from natural resource extraction in Latin America. Recent reports by the media and academic studies throughout the region have discussed the tendency towards conflict and controversy caused by an expanding frontier of extraction. The Environmental Justice Atlas is perhaps the best known international effort to map those issues. However, while there are now increasing reports on the growing intensity of these socio-environmental conflicts, in-depth analyses of their causes, impacts and responses remain limited. This special edition seeks to add to a growing literature that fills this gap in analysis through grounded research in the region.