Researcher(s):
Maddy Frawley
ENVS course(s): 400 Initiated: September 2017 Completed: May 2018 Go to project site
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This project will serve as my senior capstone. I will be studying two major mining areas: Mount Polley in British Columbia, Canada, and Zaruma, Ecuador, and comparing the legislation, impact, and management in these two areas. I hope to learn about what differences occur in the ways rural mining areas are managed and monitored in core versus periphery countries. My methodology will include interviews, spatial analysis on GIS, content analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility pages of mining companies, and economic analysis of market incentives for resource extraction. This project will work to understand the following framing question: How does resource extraction vary in rhetoric and reality? It will work to answer the focus question: How do labor and land regulations vary in legislation and enforcement between Vancouver-headquartered mines in Likely, BC and Zaruma, Ecuador?