TY - JOUR
T1 - Forestry development, water scarcity, and the mapuche protest for environmental justice in chile
AU - Torres-Salinas, Robinson
AU - García, Gerardo Azócar
AU - Henríquez, Noelia Carrasco
AU - Zambrano-Bigiarini, Mauricio
AU - Costa, Tatiana
AU - Bolin, Robert
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - From a theoretical approach based on political ecology and environmental justice, we assess how forestry development has generated socio-spatial dynamics of environmental degradation and water scarcity in southern Chile. Through historical-geographical and ethnographic methods, we discuss how and why the spread of forestry plantations has significantly influenced social and environmental degradation of the Mapuche's modes of living. In response, during recent decades a political articulation of a Mapuche social movement is observed. Their demands include land, autonomy, rights and opportunities to frame their own development strategies. Within the internal diversity of this movement, a key principle is reversing the spread of environmental degradation by recovering the native forest and its natural water cycles, which have been disrupted significantly by the increasing of forestry plantations. We explore these dynamics of the Mapuche movement from an environmental justice approach.
AB - From a theoretical approach based on political ecology and environmental justice, we assess how forestry development has generated socio-spatial dynamics of environmental degradation and water scarcity in southern Chile. Through historical-geographical and ethnographic methods, we discuss how and why the spread of forestry plantations has significantly influenced social and environmental degradation of the Mapuche's modes of living. In response, during recent decades a political articulation of a Mapuche social movement is observed. Their demands include land, autonomy, rights and opportunities to frame their own development strategies. Within the internal diversity of this movement, a key principle is reversing the spread of environmental degradation by recovering the native forest and its natural water cycles, which have been disrupted significantly by the increasing of forestry plantations. We explore these dynamics of the Mapuche movement from an environmental justice approach.
KW - Forestry monoculture
KW - Mapuche
KW - Natural commons
KW - Water justice
KW - Water scarcity
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U2 - 10.1590/1809-4422ASOC150134R1V1912016
DO - 10.1590/1809-4422ASOC150134R1V1912016
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84967020015
SN - 1414-753X
VL - 19
SP - 121
EP - 144
JO - Ambiente e Sociedade
JF - Ambiente e Sociedade
IS - 1
ER -