An environmental and social history of the Chilean salmon farming industry, 1976-2009
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Recognizing that it is difficult to ameliorate environmental problems without understanding their connections to associated social changes, I researched the complex feedback loops that connect environmental and social change in the salmon-farming industry of southern Chile. The research covers the period from its experimental beginnings during the Pinochet dictatorship through the environmental and economic crisis resulting from the salmon flu. I analyze the environmental and social transformations brought about by comparing the region before and after the advent of salmon-farming using methodologies from both the humanities and social sciences. Chapter One introduces the study; Chapter Two gives a snapshot of the island of Chiloé before the industry; Chapter Three traces the changes in working life among salmon farm workers through the industry; Chapter Four characterizes the environmental effects of the industry and analyzes the infectious salmon anemia; Chapter Five analyzes the ways in which the industry shaped society in central Chiloé by 2009; and Chapter Six concludes. Data was gathered through both quantitative and qualitative surveys, open-ended interviews, archival research, and collaborations with ongoing research in Chile.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2014 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Gerhart, Andrew Willis |
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| Associated with | Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (Stanford University) |
| Primary advisor | Naylor, Rosamond |
| Primary advisor | White, Richard |
| Thesis advisor | Naylor, Rosamond |
| Thesis advisor | White, Richard |
| Thesis advisor | Frank, Zephyr L, 1970- |
| Advisor | Frank, Zephyr L, 1970- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Andrew Willis Gerhart. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2014. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2014 by Andrew Willis Gerhart
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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