In 1999, a broad coalition of local actors from civil society protested against price increases and community water system expropriation following the privatization of water services in the city of Cochabamba. This paper aims to provide some information about the co-management of the water system after the Water War.

In 1999, the Ministry of Energy and Mining launched a development program in connection with the mining industry in Tambogrande (Piura Departement, Peru), without any previous debate or consultation with the people living there. The mayor of the municipality approved the project and the Canadian mining company, Manhattan Minerals Corporation,...

Ilo, is a port city in southwestern Peru, in the Moquegua department, with some 60.000 inhabitants. To handle the problems of contamination and chaotic urban expansion, many NGOs, neighborhood committees and associations joined forces in collaboration with the municipal government, led by a left-wing coalition since 1980, to develop the...

Purpose and Interest of the Case This paper aims to provide some information about the public consultation carried out by the Bolivian government regarding the construction of a highway that would cross the TIPNIS: a national park and indigenous territory. This case study is instructive because it is one of...