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The politics of land use planning: gold mining in Cajamarca, Peru

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Title The politics of land use planning: gold mining in Cajamarca, Peru
 
Creator Jeronimo, R.P.
Rap, Edwin
Vos, J.
 
Subject land use
planning
gold
mining
political aspects
ecology
economic aspects
environmental effects
farming systems
geographical information systems
stakeholders
water use
catchment areas
rural communities
urban population
central government
regional government
case studies
 
Description Ecological and Economic Zoning (EEZ) is a Land Use Planning (LUP) methodology that aims at defining separate areas for productive uses and conservation. EEZ is designed as a method that balances different interests and it devises land use policy through stakeholder participation, technical expertise and GIS modelling. The article presents the case study of EEZ in Cajamarca, Peru to analyse the LUP process in a situation of conflicting interests over future land and water use. Cajamarca is a department with rich gold deposits in the headwater catchment area upstream of the city of Cajamarca. During the last decade, rural communities and urban populations have continuously protested against the opening of new open pit mines, as they fear this will affect their water supply. Therefore, the EEZ process became part of a controversy between a powerful pro-mining coalition lead by the central government and a conservation coalition lead by the regional government. We conclude that in these circumstances, LUP cannot, technically or politically, accommodate the different values attributed to the headwater catchment.
 
Date 2015-12
2016-11-01T13:40:22Z
2016-11-01T13:40:22Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Jeronimo, R. P.; Rap, Edwin; Vos, J. 2015. The politics of land use planning: gold mining in Cajamarca, Peru. Land Use Policy, 49:104-117. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.07.009
0264-8377
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/77553
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.07.009
Land and Water Productivity
 
Language en
 
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Publisher Elsevier BV