Impacto social y beneficios de la minería a gran escala y su incidencia en la provincia de Zamora Chinchipe

Abstract

Abstract: The present work aims to know the social impact and benefits generated by large-scale mining within the province of Zamora Chinchipe and its region.Once the mining context in this province was analyzed, four social variables were identified, which are directly influenced and benefited by the mining projects that are under development, these variables are the ones that receive the greatest impact within the area of influence. and they are the following: education, health, employment, and infrastructures (civil works) which,since the beginning of the operational life of large-scale mining projects, have been immersed in a period of attention and continuous improvement. The support of the mining sector is directly reflected in the communities that are within the direct area of influence of the projects, while migratory flows and the revaluation of land are among the variables negatively affected, since the relocation of the populations that were within the perimeter of work of the projects is one of the causes of the generation of social conflicts within the communities.