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Call for Papers for open call N° 71, July 2026, semi-thematic

 

Global changes and their effects on the earth system: climate and the cryosphere

 

Deadline for paper submissions: April 15, 2026

 

 

 

 

Glaciers Protection Law: The evolution of a socio-environmental conflict

Authors

  • Javiera Herrera Perez Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y de la Conservación de la Naturaleza, Santiago, Chile.
  • Alexis Segovia Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y de la Conservación de la Naturaleza, Santiago, Chile.
No. 58 (2019)
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5370.2019.52214
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Abstract

The glaciers protection law project’s has aroused great political, business, social and scientific interest and has constituted a socio-environmental conflict that goes beyond a specific territory and that has allowed in the expression to the arguments in a one and the other hand, to show different views about the country, different ways of perceiving economic development and that has evolved from a conflict with highly tangible elements (water, land) toward ethical and value issues that question the national institionality and current paradigms of development. This investigation suggests that the conflict has its origin in the Pascua Lama project and that it has evolved in the demand not to repeat such experience, so that explore the chronology of the conflict through the collection of press releases and other sources of information, analyzing the milestones, its actors and its elements, worldviews and paradigms in conflict, evidencing that a specific conflict in a given territory and associated for a specific project, can manifest itself as a conflict of much far reaching and territorial scale at reason of inadequate management of the specific conflict.

Keywords:

Glaciers , Glacier Law , Pascua Lama , Socio-environmental Conflict.
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Herrera Perez, J., & Segovia, A. (2019). Glaciers Protection Law: The evolution of a socio-environmental conflict. Investigaciones Geográficas, (58), 119–135. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5370.2019.52214
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