TY - JOUR
T1 - Centering Community Voices in Mining Governance
AU - Erwin, Anna
AU - Ma, Zhao
AU - O’Brien, Emma Patricia Salas
AU - Bauchet, Jonathan
AU - Calderón, Nelly Ramírez
AU - Zeballos Zeballos, Eliseo
AU - Arce Larrea, Glenn Roberto
AU - Popovici, Ruxandra
AU - Zanotti, Laura
AU - Silva, Chelsea A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Peru has shifted away from centralized mining management to governance among government, companies, and communities. Various mechanisms facilitate community participation, including the mining canon, dialogues, and corporate social responsibility programs. Even with these laws and mechanisms, mining pollution and conflicts continue. In this study, we ask: how do communities perceive and participate in mining governance? And what are some alternative ways, driven by community priorities, to address governance in mining contexts? We collected 53 semi-structured with agricultural actors in two Peruvian districts with mining activity and analyzed those perspectives through the lens of community-centered governance. Our analyses revealed how centering community priorities in data collection and analysis illuminates context-specific factors that shape community attitudes toward mining and highlights community-driven approaches to addressing mining governance. Such community-driven approaches could include integrating understandings of local livelihoods and historical contexts, implementing transparent participatory processes, and improving laws to give communities decision-making power over mining development.
AB - Peru has shifted away from centralized mining management to governance among government, companies, and communities. Various mechanisms facilitate community participation, including the mining canon, dialogues, and corporate social responsibility programs. Even with these laws and mechanisms, mining pollution and conflicts continue. In this study, we ask: how do communities perceive and participate in mining governance? And what are some alternative ways, driven by community priorities, to address governance in mining contexts? We collected 53 semi-structured with agricultural actors in two Peruvian districts with mining activity and analyzed those perspectives through the lens of community-centered governance. Our analyses revealed how centering community priorities in data collection and analysis illuminates context-specific factors that shape community attitudes toward mining and highlights community-driven approaches to addressing mining governance. Such community-driven approaches could include integrating understandings of local livelihoods and historical contexts, implementing transparent participatory processes, and improving laws to give communities decision-making power over mining development.
KW - Mining dialogue community-driven development
KW - natural resource governance
KW - participation
KW - Peru
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85127347333&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/08941920.2022.2053018
DO - 10.1080/08941920.2022.2053018
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:85127347333
SN - 0894-1920
JO - Society and Natural Resources
JF - Society and Natural Resources
ER -