The Impacts of Large-Scale Energy Development

Indigenous People and the Bolivia-Brazil Gas Pipeline

Bibliographic Data

ID7800533
AuthorsMichael Painter (Wildlife Conservation Society, corresponding author), Oscar Castillo (0000-0003-3155-8843, Coordinator for Environmental Governance and Infrastructure, Wildlife Conservation Society's Amazon Program, Lima, Peru)
Year2014
Volume73
Issue2
Pages116-127
Publication date2014-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHuman Organization (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-7259 • E-ISSN: 1938-3517
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.17730/humo.73.2.9h502275372j30jm
OpenAlexW2048069210
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited12

In 1997, construction began on the Bolivia-Brazil Gas Pipeline to link the gas fields of southeastern Bolivia with the Brazilian cities of São Paulo and Porto Alegre. One indigenous organization, the Capitanía de Alto y Bajo Isoso, led alliances with other regional actors to negotiate a redesign of the impact mitigation and compensation program. The resulting program won international recognition for setting standards for best practices. The experience provides lessons for improving approaches to impact mitigation, the complexities of establishing governance arrangements that permit meaningful involvement of local people, and the opportunities and limitations on addressing the negative impacts of development driven by extractive industries. Because both the pipeline project and the response of the indigenous organization occurred in the context of neoliberal economic policies, the case also offers insights into the complexities of local responses to neoliberal reform

Business · Context (archaeology · Corporate governance · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental planning · Gas pipeline · Geography · Indigenous · Negotiation · Pipeline (software · Political science · Scale (ratio · Engineering · Finance · Mining and Resource Management

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