Graduation Year
2018
Date of Submission
4-2018
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
International Relations
Reader 1
William Ascher
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@ 2018 Krista D De La Torre
Abstract
Despite their progressive on-the-books environmental legislation, Ecuador and Argentina have hosted increasing amounts of extraction projects in their borders over the last few decades. Beyond increased environmental degradation, the expansion of extraction economies in these countries has drove mass scale social movements orchestrated by disenfranchised peoples. This thesis investigates the link between social movements and environmental law reformation, and whether such social movements are able to strengthen the national legal and institutional framework for environmental management. To evaluate this inquiry, this thesis explores socials movements in Ecuador in the late twentieth century and in Argentina in the early twenty first century.
Recommended Citation
De La Torre, Krista, "Social Movements and Environmental Law: A Case Study of Politically Disenfranchised Communities in Ecuador and Argentina" (2018). CMC Senior Theses. 1849.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1849
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
