State, natural resources and environmental policy: notes for Peruvian case

• Autores: Lanegra, Iván, Hurtado, Verónica
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2013
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistaspuc:article/14111
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/politai/article/view/14111
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: institutions; environmental politics; social conflicts; natural resources; state; instituciones; política ambiental; conflictos sociales; recursos naturales; Estado

This article is divided into three main sections that seek to provide a panoramic look at the relationship between the presence of important natural  resources in the country and  how this influences the state, particularly in the development of environmental policies. In that sense, in the first part, we made a theoretical introduction to the  relationship between natural resource abundance  and  state building,  with a brief mention of the  ‘natural resource curse’. Following is a particular case of Peru and the particularities of the  exploitation of their natural resources. Then we go on to explain how, through various factors,  including social conflicts, have created conditions for institutional innovation in environmental matter