Making the environmental state in Chile : knowledge, markets, and legal frameworks for biodiversity conservation
department or school: Arts, Faculty of
department or school: Geography, Department of
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Rojas Marchini, María Fernanda
issued: 2022-10-21T19:20:08Z
issued: 2022
related degree: Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: In response to pressures from intergovernmental institutions, NGOs, and environmental movements, Chile is crafting new legal and policy frameworks to increase state management and financing of biodiversity conservation. In 2014, the executive branch sent to congress a bill to create a Biodiversity and Protected Areas Service (BPAS). The BPAS, which remains in the legislature, would be a game-changer in a country that has for decades prioritized a neoliberal economic model based on the export of raw nature. Moreover, since the state ratified ILO Convention 169 in 2008 and UNDRIP in 2009, the new environmental institutions must respect the rights and views of Indigenous people – a considerable challenge given Chile’s long legacy of Indigenous land dispossession, forced displacement, and genocide. This dissertation analyzes “the making of the environmental state”: a state with sufficient institutional capacity to protect biodiversity. The questions guiding this research are: What is the character of the environmental state in Chile? How does the environmental state come into being? What is its approach to generating financial resources? And how does it relate to Indigenous people? Based on interviews with state and intergovernmental officers, Indigenous representatives, and private environmental experts, along with a review of governmental documents, I scrutinize the creation of the BPAS bill and its main economic instruments. I trace the legislative history of the BPAS bill, reviewing parliamentary debates around articles which render biodiversity economic. I then focus on one of the bill’s centerpieces, a biodiversity offsets market, analyzing the actors who participated in its crafting, the discourses justifying its implementation, and the market devices in its design. Finally, I shift gears to examine the state's relationship with Indigenous people during a consultation on the BPAS. This research suggests that the state's intimate relationship with global circuits …
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note: MAKING THE ENVIRONMENTAL STATE IN CHILE: KNOWLEDGE, MARKETS, AND LEGAL FRAMEWORKS FOR BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION by María Fernanda Rojas Marchini B.A., Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2011 M.A. Universidad Austral de Chile, 2015 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL STUDIES (Geography) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver) October 2022 © María Fernanda Rojas Marchini, 2022 ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for acceptance, the dissertation entitled: Making the environmental in Chile: knowledge, markets, and legal frameworks for biodiversity conservation submitted by María Fernanda Rojas Marchini in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Geography Examining Committee: Jessica Dempsey, Professor, Geography, UBC Co-supervisor Trevor Barnes, Professor, Geography, UBC Co-supervisor Juanita Sundberg, Professor, Geography, UBC Supervisory Committee Member Jamie Peck, Professor, Geography UBC University Examiner Terre Satterfield, Professor, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, UBC University Examiner Diana Ojeda, Professor, Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios sobre el Desarrollo, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia External Examiner iii Abstract In response to pressures from intergovernmental institutions, NGOs, and environmental movements, Chile is crafting new legal and policy frameworks to increase state management and financing of biodiversity conservation. In 2014, the executive branch sent to congress a bill to create a Biodiversity and Protected Areas Service (BPAS). The BPAS, which remains in the legislature, would be a game-changer in a country that has for decades prioritized a neoliberal economic model based on the export of raw nature. Moreover, since the state ratified ILO Convention 169…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2022-11
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0421413
language: eng
degree discipline: Geography
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
contributor: Dempsey, Jessica, 1977-
contributor: Barnes, Trevor J.
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/82961