Sacrifice Zones and Socio-environmental Recovery in Chile

Failures and opportunities of the environmental policy

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ID7565627
AuthorsAlexander Panez (0000-0003-1978-2076, University of Bío-Bío), Paola Bolados (0000-0002-1583-007X, Universidad Autónoma de Chile), Luis Espinoza Almonacid (0000-0003-3525-9605, Universidad de Buenos Aires), Bárbara Jerez Henríquez (0000-0001-9391-6410, University of Concepción)
Year2023
Volume26
Publication date2023-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmbiente & sociedade (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1414-753X • E-ISSN: 1809-4422
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/1809-4422asoc0137r1vu2023l3oa
OpenAlexW4388568169
LanguageEN
References cited9

In this article we analyze the Social and Environmental Recovery Plans implemented by the State of Chile in the communes called sacrifice zones. From the contributions of environmental justice and the debates regarding participation and governance that this policy involves, we account for the contradictions and difficulties for the transformation of territories damaged by the intensification of extractivist activities, mainly mining-energy. We conclude by showing how these limitations and failures of state environmental policy are related to the dissociation of the environmental and social, -through the undervaluation of the latter-; the instrumental understanding of participation as a techno-bureaucratic tool for state purposes; and the tensions generated by a neoliberal environmental governance model. Finally, we propose the need to think about the concept of sacrifice zone linked to socio-environmental recovery as a proposal from the territories for the transition towards recovery zones

Bureaucracy · Corporate governance · Economics · Environmental governance · Environmental justice · Environmental planning · Geography · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sacrifice · Social justice · Sociology · Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond · Extractivism and Socioeconomic Issues · Law · Mining and Resource Management

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