STRUGGLE FOR WATER IN THE MINING OPERATIONS
Keywords:
Mining, Peasant community, Social conflicts, Water resources, Communal territory.Abstract
This study approach one of the pressing problems of present Peru as the sharpening of social conflicts arising from mining. The root cause of the conflict is caused by the protection and defense of water resources, seconded by the preservation of the territory of rural communities and environmental pollution. Since the relaxation of rules for the exploration and mining of the nineties and the consequent presence of large investments of transnational corporations, conflicts in this area of the Peruvian economy has grown steadily in various regions of the country. Rural highlands communities are the main protagonists in these conflicts, because most mining projects affecting the headwaters of the basin and its territorial space. Our study explores this issue, in a representative sample, interpreting and comparing the literatura in stock, confronted with empirical data collected in fieldwork
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