Section J (Column 4)
General works from mainstream (Time Magazine, The Economist) and critical sources/views on economic approaches to ‘climate change’ (1980s-2018)
- Grain and World Rainforest Movement (2015) critique of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the World Bank’s (FOA) REDD+ projects’ targeting of peasant farming practices rather than the root causes of greenhouse emissions - industrial agriculture and the corporate food system.
- America Latina en Movimiento issue (April, 2010) includes a series of critical reflections following the historic conference on Climate Change in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Various academic publications (1990-2001) by Joan Martinez Alier (Spain) – including a “Curso a distancia” and university manuals in Spanish and Portuguese (1989-2008)
National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE). “Reviews” (1992-1995). The NRTEE was a multi-stakeholder roundtable on sustainable development comprised on labour, business, public interest, universities, Indigenous people, environmentalists, government, professional groups, the arts).
Various articles (1993-2012) from the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA), the Canadian government and the Militarized Commerce email listserv, a listserv contributed to by leading Canadian corporate accountability organizations.
Broad range of sources by well known analysts of Canadian cases, resistance, EDC funding, oil and inter-governmental relations.
Marshall, Judith. “Global networks challenging the power of the mining industry.” Populism, Power and Protest. Special Issue of Alternate Routes, Vol 31(1), 2020.
North, Liisa, Timothy David Clark, and Viviana. Eds. 2006. Community rights and corporate responsibility: Canadian mining and oil companies in Latin America. Between the Lines: Toronto.
Various emails, news articles, reports, educational materials about the Canadian Network for Corporate Accountability’s push for an extractive ombudsperson (2005-2021), proposed corporate accountability legislation.
News articles, reports, analysis on Canadian mining and the need for corporate accountability, case studies, Swedish and Norwegian pension fund withdrawals, criminalization of land defenders.
Critical analyses and news on key cases of mining abuses brought to Canadian courts, international investment agreements.
Nolin, Catherine & Russel, Grahame. 2021. Testimonio: Canadian mining in the aftermath of genocides in Guatemala. Toronto: Between the Lines.
Various reports by CIRDI, an institution funded by the Canadian government’s Official Development Assistance (ODA). CIRDI was founded by the University of British Columbia (UBC), Simon Fraser University and Polytechnique Montréal, and is housed at UBC. The institution describes itself as “a trusted inter-disciplinary centre of expertise on natural resource governance and related policy, management and sustainable development.” To date, its work has been focused on countries where Canada has exploration and mining interests.
PDAC is Canada’s leading mining industry association. It holds an annual convention in Toronto, Canada which brings together more than 25,000 people including investors, financiers, banking executives, fund managers, brokers, analysts, lawyers, mining developers, exploration managers, prospectors, geoscientists, students, and government officials from around the world. It is met every year by protests organized by various Toronto-based activist groups, notably the Mining Injustice Solidarity Network (MISN).
Various materials and publications from PDAC and The Mining Association of Canada, as well as industry magazines; and reflections/critiques about the convention from the militarized commerce listserv.
Various news and academic articles and critiques about the purported ‘development’ that mining brings to communities – includes topics such as employment, mining consultation, government versus community consent, the ‘resource curse’, tailings storage, workplace health and safety, impact on women, human rights, Canadian foreign policy and development assistance, Corporate Social Responsibility, bribery and corruption, SLAPP suits, divestment campaigns, health.
Moore, Jen and Perez Rocha, Manuel. “Extraction Casino: Mining companies gambling with Latin American lives and sovereignty through supranational arbitration.” April, 2019. Mining Watch. Institute for Policy Studies and Center for International Environmental Law.
Dubois, Frederic & Widgington, David. Eds. Extraction!: Comix Reportage. 2015. 2nd edition. Ottawa: Ad Astra Comix.
Reboratti, Carlos. Ed. 1989. Población y ambiente en América Latina. Programa Latinoamericano de Actividades en Población. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Grupo Editor Latinoamericano Colleción Estudios Políticos y Sociales.
Villalba, Delia. 2007. Haciendo camino. Montevideo, Uruguay: El Tomate Verde Ediciones – REDES – Amigos de la Tierra Uruguay.
Bravo, Elizabeth. ND (200?) Biocombustibles, cultivos energéticos y soberanía alimentaria en América Latina: Enciendo el debate sobre biocombustibles. Red de una América Latina Libre de Transgénicos (RALLT), Acción Ecológica and HIVOS. Quito, Ecuador: Imprenta Génesis.
Sunkel, Osvaldo. 1981. La Dimensión Ambiental en los Estilos de Desarrollo de América Latina. Naciones Unidas, Comisión Económica para América Latina, Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente. Santiago de Chile: Naciones Unidas.
Various academic papers and periodicals including NACLA, Eco-Américas, Amigos de la Tierra, examining critical environmental/ecological issues relates to mining, oil and gas industries (2001-2019).
Various Observatorio Latinoamericano de Conflictos Ambientales (OLCA) publications on natural resource conflicts as well as a set of documents on environmental conflicts related to mining projects in Chile.
OLCA. 2001. Cobre misería de la riqueza. Santiago, Chile: Antu Producciones. A 23-minute VHS on socio-environmental costs of mining.
Hernán Darío Correo & Iokiñe Rodríguez. Eds. 2005. Environmental crossroads in Latin America: Between managing and transforming natural resource conflicts. CyC Program, University for Peace, Costa Rica. Chile: Andros Impresores.
Communiques, letters, articles and information on environmental impacts and conflict related to pulp mill, soy bean, and mining projects in Argentina.
Maristella Svamps / Mirta A. Antonelli. Eds. Minería transnacional: narrativas del desarrollo y resistencias sociales. 2da edición. 2009. Buenos Aires: Editorial Biblos.
Including
Comunidads Mineras Construyendo su Desarrollo: Guia para facilitar un proceso transformador
La Paz: CEPROMIN (Centro para la Promocion Minera) 2000 or so
El Oro. Una nueva perspectiva para la mineria en Bolivia. Parte I
Serie: Recursos Naturales No. 2 Junio 1992
La Paz: Centro de Promocion Minera
El Cooperativismo Minero. Paliativo, Engano o Solucion?
Cuaderno de Formación No. 7 Dic 1989
Las Inversiones Privadas Extranjeras en la Mineria Boliviana
Cuaderno de Formación No. 14 Junio 1996
La Paz: CEPROMIN
Cochabamba. Documents of the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of
Mother Earth. Bolivia April 2010
Toronto: South Branch Publications and Toronto Bolivia Solidarity
Including
Brasil Environment
No. 1 Jan 1991 – No. 15 April 1992
Brasilia: Presidency of the Republic
Pro-ALCOOL: Rumbo Desastre
By Ricardo Bueno
Vozes Petropolis 1984
¿Qué Protegen Las Area Protegidas? Conservacion, producción, Estado y sociedad en la implentacion
Del Sistema Nacional de Areas Protegidas
By Carlos Santos
Ediciones Trilce 2011
Hidreletricas, Ecologia e Progresso. Contribuicoes para um debate
By Ana Luiza Martins and others
Rio de Janeiro: CEDI (Centro Ecumenico de Documentacao e Informacao 1990
Comunidade e Meio Ambiente. Revista Unicsul (Universidade Cruzeiro So Sul – Sao Paulo)
Ano 1 No. 1 Maio 1996
Folha do Meio Ambiente
Jan/Fev Ano VII No. 60 – Ano 9 No. 88 Nov 1998
Brasilia: Forest Cultura Viva Ltd
Mineracao e Violacoes de Direitos: O Projeto Ferro Carajas S11D da Vale S.A
By Cristiane Faustino e Fabrina Furtado Acailandia (MA) 2013
Including
The BRASCAN File
Reprint from Last Post Vol, 3 No. 2 Feb 1973
Mining in Brazil. Environmental, Social and Planning Support Brazil: Ramboll
The Vale 2012 Unsustainability Report.
Contesting Big Mining from Canada to Mozambique by Judith Marshall And other items of Vale Monitoring Group
Antes Fosse Mais Levea Carga. Reflexos sobre o desastre da samarco/Vale/BHP Billiton
A Questao Mineral No Brasil Vol. 2 by Bruno Milanez and others
Editorial iGuana 2016
“Desastre No Vale Do Rio Doce. Antecedentes, impactos e acoes sobre a destruicao”
Org. Bruno Milanez and Cristiana Losekann
Folio Digital 2016
Ambiente Ahorea. Informativo Mensual
Ano III No. 24 Dic 1992 – Ano IX No. 70 Junio 1998
Ambiente y Desarrollo Vol. 1 No. 1 Dic 1984, No. 3 Oct 1985
Santiago: CIPMA (Centro de Investigación y Planificación del Medio Ambiente)
The Tiger Without a Jungle. Environmental Consequences of the Economic Transformation
Of Chile
By Rayen Quiroga Martinez and Saar Van Hauwermeiren
Institute of Political Ecology. Ecological Economics Program
Santiago: 1996
Including
Land and Conflict. Resource extraction, human rights and corporate social responsibility:
Canadian companies in Colombia
Mining Watch Canada and CENSAT-Agua Viva Ottawa: Interpares 2009
Justicia Colectiva, Medio Ambiente y Democracia Participativa. Textos Utiles Serie Derecho de Interes
Publico
Coord: Daniel Bonilla Maldonado, Bogota: Universidad de los Andes 2009
El Trabajo en la Mineria del Oro en Buenaventura March 1997
La Salud en la Mineria del Oro en Buenaventura March 1997
Santafe de Bogota: Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social
Informe SOMBRA de Sostenibilidad de las Operaciones de Glencore en Colombia. Shadow report
on the Sustainability of Glencore’s Operations in Colombia
By Pensamiento y Accion Social and Arbeitsgruppe Schweiz Kolumbien, Bogota, 2015
El Agua no es Una Mercancia. El derecho de acceso a la justicia ambiental en Colombia. Entre la validaz formal y la eficacia material
By Javier Gonzaga Valencia Hernandez
Manizales, Colombia: Editorial Universidad de Caldas 2014
Including
Victim or Villain? Canadian mining investment in South-east Ecuador exacerbates divisions,
Conflicts, Mining Watch Canada July 2007
Ecuadorian organizations decry promotion of Ecuador as a ‘Mining Country’ during mining convention in
Toronto March 8 2017, Mining Watch Canada
The Speculative Petro-State: Volatile Oil Prices and Resource Populism in Ecuador
By Angus Lyall and Gabriela Valdivia 13 Feb 2019 Annals of the American Association of Geographers
Informe sobre la situación de las personas y pueblos afectados por las actividades mineras y
Petroleras en el Ecuador 2 Marzo 2007
CDES (Centro de Derechos Economico y Sociales)
CEDHU (Comision Ecumenica de Derechos Humanos)
DECOIN (Defensa y Conservacion de Intag)
Accion Ecologica
Views Feb 2008
Quito: CCEC (Camara de Comercio Ecuatoriano Canadiense)
Actuar en Mundosplurales. Boletin del Programa de Politicas Publicas No. 3 Feb 2009 FLACSO Sede Ecuador
New Internationalist. Viva Yasumi! Life vs Big Oil No. 413 July 2008
Es Un Monstruo Grande y Pisa Fuerte. La minería en el Ecuador y el mundo By Mary Ellen Fleweger, Quito: DECOIN 1998
Intervencion Minera a Gran Escala en Ecuador y Vulneracion de Derechos Humanos
Caso Corriente Resources
CEDHU
FIDH (Federacion Internacional de Derechos Humanos) Dic 2010
Including
Accion Ecologica:
*Alerta Verde. Boletin de Accion Ecologica. No. 10 Feb 1994 – No. 32 Agosto 1996, No. 141 - Mayo 2005
*Oilwatch 1996
*Amazonia por la Vida. Bio Diversidad y Derechos de los Pueblos. 1996
Gabriel Ricardo Nemoga and others
*Ecuador Ni es Ni Sera Ya Pais Amazonico. Inventario de impactos petroleros No. 1 2001
*El Enclave Minero de la Cordillera del Condor, by Gloria Chicaiza Marzo 2010
*Entretelones de la megamineria en el Ecuador
By William Sacher and others Sept 2015
”Marcha por el agua, la vida y la dignidad de los pueblos”. Letras Verdes. Revista Latinoamericana
De Estudios Socioambientales No. 19 Marzo 2016
By Santiago Ortiz Crespo
Encuentro del Manglar
Muisne/Ecuador Dic 1993
Ayuda Alimentaria y Organismos Transgénicos 2002
Ecuador’s Yasuni-ITT Initiative and New Green Efforts – Away from Petroleum Dependency?
Occasional Papers. Feb 2013 Vol. 3 Issue 1
By Conny Davidson and Laura Kiff, Calgary: Latin American Research Centre
La Contaminacion de Aguas en Ecuador. Una aproximación económica
By Giuseppina Da Ros
Quito: Instituto de Investigaciones Economicas Ediciones ABYA- YALA 1995
INTAG and Ascendant Copper Mining Conflict
Note: See also Ecuador – Country Section for the Journal produced by the INTAG community and other documents.
Including
Informativo del Movimiento en Defensa de los Recursos Nacionales
12 Enero 1978 – 1 Sept 1978
Medellin: Comision de Prensa
Comisión para la Cooperación Ambiental de América del Norte. Folleto Informativo
By Gustavo Alanis Ortega Ana Karina González Samantha Namnum
México: Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental 2000
Importancia y Perspectiva del Desarrollo Sustentable en México
By Mario M Carrillo Huerta and others
Universidad Autonoma de Tlaxcala 1996
México a Cielo Abierto. De Como el boom minero resquebrajo al pais
By J Jesus Lemus Gribaldo 2017
Political Change and Environmental Policymaking in Mexico
By Jordi Diez, New York: Routledge 2006
Including
La Economía China y las Industrias Extractivas: Desafíos para el Perú
By Cynthia A Sanborn and Victor Torres C
Lima: Cooperacción
Universidad del Pacifico 2009
Acceso a la Justicia: Empresas y violaciones de derechos humanos en el Peru
Mayo de 2013, Geneva: CIJ (Comision Internacional de Juristas)
Moviendo Montanas: Empresas, comunidades y ONG en las industrias extractivas
Eds Felipe Portocarrero S Cynthia A Sanborn Luis Antonio Camacho
Lima: Universidad del Pacifico 2010
Including
“The Mining Vote in the 2021 Peruvian Election”
By Veronica Hurtado and Maxwell A Cameron, University of British Columbia
Unearthing Conflict. Corporate mining, activism, and expertise in Peru
By Fabiana Li
UK: Duke University Press 2015
La Gran Minería: ?paga los impuestos que debería pagar? El Caso Yanacocha
By Raul Wiener Fresco and Juan Torres Polo
Lima: Latindadd (Red Latinoamericana sobre Deuda, Desarrollo y Derechos) 2014
Construyendo un Proceso de Toma de Decisiones Frente a Operaciones Mineras
Serie Minería y Comunidades by José De Echave C
Cooperacción – Acción Solidaria Para el Desarrollo 2001
Voices from the Mountains. Oral testimonies from Cerro de Pasco, Peru
London: The Panos Institute 2002
Mineria y Conflicto Social
By Jose De Echave and others
Peru: IEP (Instituto de Estudios Peruanos) and others, 2009
Incuding
Conferencia de Las Estados Unidas Sobre el Medio Ambiente y el Desarrollo 1992
Informe Nacional de Venezuela
MARNR (Ministerio del Ambiente y de los Recursos Naturales Renovables)
Un Estudio Comparativo del Fenómeno de la Lluvia Acida en Canadá y Venezuela
By Frank Eduardo Rivas Torres
Mérida: Universidad de los Andes 1995
Ley Penal del Ambiente y Delito Ecológico
by J Martínez Rincones
Editorial Alfa. Mérida – Venezuela del Sur 1993
La Serpiente en el Lago. Transformaciones histórico-ambientales causadas por la petroquímica el tablazo
en la comunidad El Hornito, Estadio Zulia, 1968 – 1992
Lic. Jorge Luis Hinestroza Mendez
Maracaibo: Universidad de Zulia 1994
Including
Metals Mining and Sustainable Development in Central America. An assessment of benefits and costs
By Thomas M Power, Oxfam America
Biotecnología. Amenazas y perspectivas para el desarrollo de América Central
By Salvador Arias Penate San José, Costa Rica: DEI (Departamento Ecumenico de Investigaciones) 1990
EPOCA Update. The Environmental Project on Central America
Summer 1987 – Winter 1990-1991 (5 issues) San Francisco: Earth Island Institute
Including
El Cambio Climatico. La Lucha por la sobrevivencia. Un documento de reflexión para los afectados
Y afectadas
San Marcos: CESTA. Amigos d la Tierra El Salvador 2011 or so
De Terremotos, derrumbes e inundados
Comp. Mario Lungo y Sonia Baires
Costa Rica: La Red (Red de Estudios Sociales en Prevención de desastres en América Latina) 1996
For the love of water: The ban on mining in El Salvador
By Lynn Holland, COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs) 2016
El Pensamiento Ecologista
By Ricardo A Navarro Gabriel Pons German E Amaya
El Salvador: CESTA (Centro Salvadoreño de Tecnológica Apropiada) 1990
El Legado del CAFTA DR: Millonaria demanda de Pacific Rim al Estado Salvadoreno
Investigator: Benjamin Ramos
El Salvador: CEICOM 2009
Including
Continuing the struggle for justice and accountability in Guatemala. Making reparations a
Reality in the Chixoy Dam Case
Geneva: COHRE (Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions) 2004
Forestal
Ano 1 No. 2 Nov 2004, Ano 3 No. 6 Mayo 2006 Gremial Forestal de Guatemala
Growing Dilemnas: Guatemala, the environment and the global economy
AVANCSO (Asociacion para la Avance de las Ciencias Sociales en Guatemala) 1992
PACCA (Policy Alternatives for the Caribbean and Central America)
Note. Also Spanish version
Guatemala petróleo y minería en las entrañas del poder
By Luis Solano, Guatemala: InforPress Centroamericana 2005
Exmibal Contra Guatemala
Vol. I de la Serie Defensa del Patrimonio Nacional
Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala 1977
La Industria Extractiva en Guatemala: Políticas públicas, derechos humanos, y procesos
de resistencia popular en el periodo 2003 – 2011
Coord. Simona Violeta Yagenova
FLACSO Guatemala 2012
Fauna de Guatemala, en Peligro de Extinción
CONAP (Consejo Nacional de Areas Protegidas) 2005
Guatemala: Mining in Guatemala: Rights at Risk
Amnesty International 2014
Red Binder: Guatemala Community versus Goldcorp from Canada
Red Binder: Guatemala - Mining Conflicts. Analytical Works
Including
Propuestas de la sociedad civil centroamericana para la reconstructión y transformacion
de América Central luego del Huracán Mitch
Alforja Programa Regional Coordinado de Educatión Popular
CCIC (Consejo Canadiense de Cooperación Internacional) 1999
Después del Mitch. Una nueva Honduras se levanta (with English translations)
With forewords by President, First Lady, and representative of UNICEF 2 Nov 1998
Including
ILE. Anuario de Ecología Cultura y Sociedad
Ano I No. 1 2001
Cuba: Fundación Heinrich Boll
Fundación Antonio Nuñez Jiménez de la Naturaleza y el Hombre
Acción Ambiental en la República Dominicana: Discusiones sobre su conceptualización
Ed. Victor Eddy Ruiz B
Santiago de los Caballeros, Republica Dominicana: Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra
1995
Noti Ambiente
Ano 1984 No. 2, Ano 1986 No. 3 – 6 Mision Industrial de Puerto Rico
Including
Our Common Future. A reader’s guide, drafted by Don Hinrichsen
Earthscan Publications 1987
Third World Resurgence. The battle for the summit
No. 14/15 Oct-Nov 1991
Penang, Malaysia: Third World Network
Five Years After Rio. Innovations in Environmental Policy
Washington: The World Bank 1997
Instituto Sociedade, Pupulacao e Natureza papers
A Amazonia e os Temas Ecologicos Globais: Mitos e realidade
By Herbert O R Schubart Dez 1991
Desenvolvimento, Dinámica Demográfica e Meio Ambiente: Repensando a agenda ambiental
Brasileira by George Martine Julho 1991
As Estatisticas e o Meio Ambiente
Charles Curt Mueller Agosto 1991
Dinamica, Condicionantes e Impactos Socio-Ambientais da Evolucao da Fronteira Agricola
no Brasil by Charles Curt Mueller Janeiro 1992
Amazonian Extractivism: Prospects and pitfalls
By Haroldo Torres and George Martine Nov 1991
Crianca, Problematica Socio-ambiental e Desenvolvimento na Amazonia
By George Martine and Haroldo Torres Outubro 1991
Campesinato e Ecologia na Amazonia
By Donald Rolfe Sawyer Set 1991
A Questao Populacional no Brasil: Elementos para a agenda da fundacao Macarthur. Documento
De trabalho by George Martine
The John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation June 1991
White Binder Tropical Rainforests. A teacher’s guide
Ottawa: Friends of the Earth 1988?
Including
The Rain Forest Imperative. A ten year strategy to save earth’s most threatened ecosystems
Washington: Conservation International 1990
TCD Newsletter
Vol. 20 Oct 1989 – Vol 28 Dec 1993
Gainesville, Florida: TCD (Tropical Conservation and Development Program)