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Business & Economics Sustainable Development

Community Rights and Corporate Responsibility

Canadian Mining and Oil Companies in Latin America

edited by Liisa North, Timothy Clark & Viviana Patroni

Publisher
Between the Lines
Initial publish date
Apr 2006
Category
Sustainable Development, General, Energy Industries
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781897071106
    Publish Date
    Apr 2006
    List Price
    $29.95

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Canadian mining activity in Latin America has exploded over the past decade and a half. Investors have responded to neoliberal policies of deregulation, privatization, state-downsizing, and export promotion encouraged by leading capitalist nations and international financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The result, predictably, has been sharp conflicts between the communities affected by mining and their advocates on one side, and the transnational mining companies supported by the local state and the Canadian government on the other.

This collection, the most comprehensive in the English-language to date, investigates these conflicts in Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, and Nicaragua. Contributors address the related sustainable development, community, corporate, legal, and social issues. A valuable contribution to Latin American development studies, this collection will prove of interest to students and specialists in the field, journalists, NGOs, and policymakers.

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