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Science and Environment in Chile: The Politics of Expert Advice in a Neoliberal Democracy

Science and Environment in Chile: The Politics of Expert Advice in a Neoliberal Democracy

Barandiaran, Javiera

Paperback

Series: Urban and Industrial Environments

General Latin American HistoryGeneral Political ScienceHistory & Philosophy of Science

ISBN10: 0262535637
ISBN13: 9780262535632
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Jul 31 2018
Pages: 282
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The politics of scientific advice across four environmental conflicts in Chile, when the state acted as a neutral broker rather than protecting the common good.

In Science and Environment in Chile, Javiera Barandiarán examines the consequences for environmental governance when the state lacks the capacity to produce an authoritative body of knowledge. Focusing on the experience of Chile after it transitioned from dictatorship to democracy, she examines a series of environmental conflicts in which the state tried to act as a neutral broker rather than the protector of the common good. She argues that this shift in the role of the state--occurring in other countries as well--is driven in part by the political ideology of neoliberalism, which favors market mechanisms and private initiatives over the actions of state agencies. Chile has not invested in environmental science labs, state agencies with in-house capacities, or an ancillary network of trusted scientific advisers--despite the growing complexity of environmental problems and increasing popular demand for more active environmental stewardship. Unlike a high modernist empire state with the scientific and technical capacity to undertake large-scale projects, Chile's model has been that of an umpire state that purchases scientific advice from markets.

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