Martin Scurrah

ORCID: 0000-0002-5991-5446
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Research Areas
  • Mining and Resource Management
  • International Development and Aid
  • Latin American socio-political dynamics
  • Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
  • Human Rights and Development
  • Social Sciences and Policies
  • Politics and Society in Latin America
  • Natural Resources and Economic Development
  • Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies
  • Regional Development and Innovation
  • Indigenous Cultures and History
  • Extractivism and Socioeconomic Issues
  • Religion, Society, and Development
  • Latin American Cultural Politics
  • Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
  • Cooperative Studies and Economics
  • Environmental and Ecological Studies
  • Urban and Rural Development Challenges
  • Public Policy and Governance
  • Labor Movements and Unions
  • Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
  • Latin American rural development
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact
  • Water Governance and Infrastructure

Institute of Peruvian Studies
2018-2020

Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales
2008-2014

Flinders University
1995-1998

Group for the Analysis of Development
1984-1986

Esan University
1974

Significance In this report we investigate company–community conflict and its role in the regulation of sustainability performance extractive industries. We estimate cost to companies identify as an important means through which environmental social risks are translated into business costs decision-making. The paper clarifies relationship between risk experienced—and interpreted—by local communities, corporations. Findings reveal that, at least for case industries, these two types can...

10.1073/pnas.1405135111 article EN Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2014-05-12

Social movements have been viewed as vehicles through which the concerns of poor and marginalised groups are given greater visibility within civil society, lauded for being means to achieve local empowerment citizen activism, seen essential in holding state account constituting a grassroots mechanism promoting democracy. However, development studies little attention has paid understanding how social can affect trajectories rural livelihood spaces, these effects related movements' internal...

10.2139/ssrn.1265582 article EN SSRN Electronic Journal 2008-01-01

Abstract The significance of social movements for pro-poor political and change is widely acknowledged. Poverty reduction has assumed increasing within development debates, discourses programmes – how do movement leaders activists respond? This paper explores this question through the mapping organisations in Peru South Africa. We conclude that 'poverty' rarely a central concern. Instead, they represent their actions as challenging injustice, inequality and/or models with which disagree,...

10.1080/00220388.2010.487094 article EN The Journal of Development Studies 2010-08-01

Abstract In recent years, international actors have promoted norms related to sustainable and inclusive resource governance. However, we know little about how such attempts are contested adapted in domestic reform processes. Drawing on insights from norm diffusion institutionalist theories, this article traces first bilateral aid agencies then OECD influenced the institutionalisation of a land‐use planning (LUP) Peru 1990 until 2017. Based 145 interviews written primary sources, demonstrate...

10.1002/eet.1904 article EN cc-by Environmental Policy and Governance 2020-08-20

The past decade has witnessed profound transformations in subnational territories engendered by a dramatic increase natural resource extraction. Research to date concentrated largely on why the transfer of extractive revenues often reinforces 'local curse'; however, little work been done governments' attempts maximize benefits and minimize costs mining expansion. Drawing literature governance context extraction neoliberal reforms, this study analyses strategies – confrontational or...

10.1080/21622671.2020.1840425 article EN cc-by Territory Politics Governance 2020-11-23

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10.2139/ssrn.1524758 article EN SSRN Electronic Journal 2009-01-01

Private developmental organisations have emerged rapidly and forcefully in Peru, amid a turbulent national context of change acute social economic instability over the last two decades. While no official statistics exist on number such (there is single entity that oversees or registers their activity), independent studies surveys indicate almost 350 groups, diverse objectives coverage, are currently operating throughout country. The forces influences shaped this sector complex, article does...

10.1080/096145249100076171 article EN Development in Practice 1991-01-01

Las actividades mineras y demás económicas se realizan sobre el territorio; por ende, influyen en ambiente entorno humano que desenvuelven. Por ello, es trascendental garantizar estas humanas sean ejecutadas de forma respetuosa con la sociedad para así evitar futuros eventuales conflictos socioambientales. Una las herramientas más poderosas lograr este equilibrio entre desarrollo sostenible ordenamiento territorial (OT), entendido como institución encargada organizar dicho equilibrio. Con...

10.18800/derechopucp.202401.003 article ES cc-by Derecho PUCP 2024-05-29
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