Realising Marine Justice in Chile´s sacrificial zones: legal consequences for ecological democracy

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Abstract

In the marine environment in Chile, repeated concerns have been raised regarding the need to create laws controlling marine pollution from combined coal power station / extraction complexes or sacrificial zones. A series of case studies demonstrate the importance of integrating fisher observations of contamination for blue justice. Interviews and participatory GIS shows how fisher communities LEK observations can be integrated from Quintero, Mejillones, and Coronel, whilst generalise about the impacts of other industrial complexes impacts around the Chilean coast. Further these sacrificial zones show the importance of formalising recognition of environmental human rights with a potential new constitution on the horizon. The social protests of 2019 and 2020 opened up a new space for marine environmental rights through a successful campaign for a new Chilean constitution. Differently to the creation of rights by the neoliberal dictatorship, the participatory space afforded by a people´s constitution through a plebiscite means that concerns raised regarding marine environmental justice can be implemented in a more concrete form
Original languageEnglish
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Publication statusPublished - Sept 2020

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