Environment and Development in Latin America

This seminar introduces a “developmental challenges approach” to thinking about resource-based development. The approach is critically used to survey the development of extractive industries and other environmental issues in Latin America. The main questions to be examined are: Is resource abundance a curse? Is Latin America too poor to be green? Do institutions end up defining these issues, and how? Assignments will help students develop a research project to study one case or a set of cases in comparative perspective (countries or sub-national units).