Transitions, structural change and development: transforming natural resource-based industries in Latin America

ANABEL MARIN; PATRICK VAN ZWANENBERG

Conferencia; International Sustainability Conference 2015; 2015

SPRU, University of Sussex

In this paper we draw on a transitions framework to analyse a selection of natural resource-basedactivities in Latin America that have developed alternative technological and/or organizationalpractices - relative to those that are well established in their sectors. We ask the following questions:a) In what respects, and in what dimensions, can our cases usefully be understood as ?transformativealternatives? for development? b) What are the principal factors that inhibit the furtherdevelopment and growth of those activities, and that are associated with the presence and activitiesof incumbent industries? and c) How have those ?transformative alternatives? sought to buildnetworks of support, and to cope with or modify unfavourable selection pressures in order todevelop and expand?