Popular Protest and Unpopular Policies: State Restructuring, Resource Conflict, and Social Justice in Bolivia
Popular Protest and Unpopular Policies: State Restructuring, Resource Conflict, and Social Justice in Bolivia
This chapter focuses on protests against unequal policies of controlling and allocating natural resources in Bolivia. These protests have surfaced through social movements against policies, which result in unequal distribution of water and natural gas resources. Corrupt governments and authorities have failed to bring natural resources under a central authority. Much of the country’s rural and urban water resources have been controlled by local groups, and many transnational groups and agencies are engaged in developing and managing its portable water and irrigation systems. Resource governance in Bolivia will be unable to achieve the same level of success as the North Atlantic states due to the impact of these factors. Unstable economic and political conditions in the country have also rendered legal and institutional frameworks incapable of governing and managing natural resources efficiently.
Keywords: natural resources, central authority, Bolivia, portable water, institutional frameworks
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