Neoliberalism and shrimp industry in Ecuador
<p>Analysis of the effects of the shrimp industry development in the mangrove ecosystem, the socio-environmental conflicts generated and its relationship with neoliberalism and the financial crisis of 1999 in Ecuador. After a review of the importance of the mangrove ecosystem, the stages of th...
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Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, sede Ecuador
2014-04-01
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| author | Nadia Romero Salgado |
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| description | <p>Analysis of the effects of the shrimp industry development in the mangrove ecosystem, the socio-environmental conflicts generated and its relationship with neoliberalism and the financial crisis of 1999 in Ecuador. After a review of the importance of the mangrove ecosystem, the stages of the shrimp expansion, its promoters, the mangrove deforestation and the socio-environmental effects caused, I will analyze the shrimp crisis, its parallels with the financial crisis of 1999 and its subsequent recovery. I will show that the shrimp industry expanded in mangrove areas in order to reduce costs, even breaking the law and creating environmental degradation, vulnerability of the costs and loss of natural resources, based on the exploitation and privatization of a public good. This created unemployment, migration and impoverishment to local populations and costs that the State will have to assume. Therefore, it is a process of “accumulation by dispossession” characteristic of neoliberalism.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5a7bd63914734a68bcf1472eb65647b52022-12-22T02:00:50ZspaFacultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, sede EcuadorLetras Verdes: Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Socioambientales1390-66312014-04-01015557810.17141/letrasverdes.15.2014.12571155Neoliberalism and shrimp industry in EcuadorNadia Romero Salgado<p>Analysis of the effects of the shrimp industry development in the mangrove ecosystem, the socio-environmental conflicts generated and its relationship with neoliberalism and the financial crisis of 1999 in Ecuador. After a review of the importance of the mangrove ecosystem, the stages of the shrimp expansion, its promoters, the mangrove deforestation and the socio-environmental effects caused, I will analyze the shrimp crisis, its parallels with the financial crisis of 1999 and its subsequent recovery. I will show that the shrimp industry expanded in mangrove areas in order to reduce costs, even breaking the law and creating environmental degradation, vulnerability of the costs and loss of natural resources, based on the exploitation and privatization of a public good. This created unemployment, migration and impoverishment to local populations and costs that the State will have to assume. Therefore, it is a process of “accumulation by dispossession” characteristic of neoliberalism.</p>http://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/letrasverdes/article/view/1257MANGLARINDUSTRIA CAMARONERANEOLIBERALISMOCRISISCONFLICTO SOCIO-AMBIENTAL |
| spellingShingle | Nadia Romero Salgado Neoliberalism and shrimp industry in Ecuador Letras Verdes: Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Socioambientales MANGLAR INDUSTRIA CAMARONERA NEOLIBERALISMO CRISIS CONFLICTO SOCIO-AMBIENTAL |
| title | Neoliberalism and shrimp industry in Ecuador |
| title_full | Neoliberalism and shrimp industry in Ecuador |
| title_fullStr | Neoliberalism and shrimp industry in Ecuador |
| title_full_unstemmed | Neoliberalism and shrimp industry in Ecuador |
| title_short | Neoliberalism and shrimp industry in Ecuador |
| title_sort | neoliberalism and shrimp industry in ecuador |
| topic | MANGLAR INDUSTRIA CAMARONERA NEOLIBERALISMO CRISIS CONFLICTO SOCIO-AMBIENTAL |
| url | http://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/letrasverdes/article/view/1257 |
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