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The stakeholders' relationships and the formation of environmental inequalities in the Valdivia plant, Los Rios region, Chile
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The stakeholders' relationships and the formation of environmental inequalities in the Valdivia plant, Los Rios region, Chile
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a case study of environmental inequality
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Ulloa
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Gabriela E.
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1990-
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Schneider
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Laura C
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St Martin
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Kevin
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Kevin St Martin
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Pamela
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Rutgers University
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Much of the literature on Environmental Justice documents if a community suffering from an environmental hazard is non-white or low-income, ignoring the community’s context and relationships between them. These relationships reflect the formation of environmental inequality as the continuous shaping and shifting alliances between multiple stakeholders. By following Pellow’s model of Environmental Inequality Formation (2000), this thesis investigates the role that different stakeholders play in the formation of Environmental Inequalities by looking at the events that conforms the Valdivia Plant’s Cruces River pollution, in the Valdivia province, Los Rios region, southern Chile. This thesis was conducted using a qualitative method and case study approach to review the case literature and to gather, code, and interpret secondary sources of information, including archival records and historical documents in the written form of news and texts. The information about the Valdivia plant case was gathered between 1994 and 2007. The results from this thesis show that the stakeholders involved in the case study participated actively and influenced the formation and avoidance of Environmental Inequality, stepping away from traditional assumptions of a “perpetrator-victim” scenario where vulnerable communities are passively bearing the pollution. Accordingly, this thesis also examines the different outcomes that stakeholders can achieve, by comparing the Maiquillahue Bay and the Cruces River stories of success and failure regarding the pollution and environmental inequality coming from the Valdivia Cellulose Plant. Moreover, the purpose of this thesis is to identify the broader causes of Environmental Inequality, moving beyond the common race/class explanations, and looking for structural and local forces that may explain the Environmental Inequality phenomenon. Future research directions in EJ studies should aim to incorporate the multi-stakeholder perspective when looking for the causes of environmental inequality, and to further research locals’ active resistance to environmentally unequal situations.
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Geography
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Environmental justice--Chile
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by Gabriela E. Ulloa
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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