Map of Mining Conflicts
The map of mining conflicts was developed within the Argentinian Platform for Dialogue, Mining, Democracy and Sustainable Development in 2011. Its creation and updating is a task carried out by several civil society organizations, who developed a methodological framework for mapping of mining conflicts in the country. In the design-stage of this methodological framework, workshops with relevant actors outside the project (academics, representatives of non-governmental organizations with a technical profile, representatives of government agencies and the business sector) were carried out. These actors offered their perspectives on the methodological scheme proposed for the mapping process. The map contains information on mining conflicts in the provinces of Catamarca, Jujuy, La Rioja, Mendoza, Río Negro, San Juan and Santa Cruz. The information provided is descriptive (milestones, evolution, actors involved, actions taken, etc.), explanatory (e.g. geographic, environmental, economic, legal and socio-cultural aspects) and the CSOs involved also release an interpretation of the existing relationships between the characteristics that conflicts assume and contextual elements.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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