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1 – 10 of 11José Luis Camarena, Francisco Javier Osorio Vera, Hector Heraldo Rojas Jimenez, Ernesto Borda Medina, Juan Camilo Esteban Torregroza and Jesús David Tabares-Valencia
This paper aims to propose future public policy guidelines (FPPG) in sustainable regional development for Guaviare (Colombia) – a territory affected by environmental and social…
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Purpose
This paper aims to propose future public policy guidelines (FPPG) in sustainable regional development for Guaviare (Colombia) – a territory affected by environmental and social distress – for the year 2035.
Design/methodology/approach
Following collective action theory and sustainable regional development literature, a foresight exercise was conducted using site focus groups and semi-structured interviews with local participants to identify future strategic change drivers and the most relevant social actors for the attainment of economic, social and environmental development in the Guaviare through FPPG.
Findings
The findings suggest that the development of public policies regarding building consensus around Guaviare’s economic, environmental and social issues, reducing conflict between the region’s cultural and environmental ways, decreasing isolation from the centers of decision-making, increasing the transparency of public institutions and reducing insecurity to attract investments are all crucial to attaining sustainable regional development.
Originality/value
Interdisciplinarity is implicit in the local perspectives on the problem that impedes sustainable development in San José del Guaviare. The paper’s main contribution is the long-term vision that breaks away from the traditional short-termism in public policy guidelines in a Latin American context. Methodologically, the significant contribution is the convergent alignment of specific foresight methods toward public policy guidelines’ analysis and design processes.
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President Juan Manuel Santos described the historic milestone as “the last breath of the conflict with the FARC” and tweeted that the country could now begin “the construction of…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB223826
ISSN: 2633-304X
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The 50.2% of voters who rejected the agreement may prove sufficient to force the FARC back to war.
COLOMBIA: FARC may splinter further on making peace
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES212241
ISSN: 2633-304X
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COLOMBIA: Scandals will compound mistrust of military
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES253617
ISSN: 2633-304X
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Tourism outlook in Colombia.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB220170
ISSN: 2633-304X
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The meeting has been markedly less militaristic than previous gatherings, with unarmed FARC leaders in civilian clothes, addressing the group on demobilisation and their…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB213831
ISSN: 2633-304X
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2015 coca trends.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB212962
ISSN: 2633-304X
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New anti-drug policies are designed to encourage coca producers to switch to alternative crops and provide mechanisms for them to become landowners. Alternative development…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB205733
ISSN: 2633-304X
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For Colombia, cocaine is a product that is sold for profit in the United States. Mainstream political economy, let alone the other social sciences, has little to say about the…
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For Colombia, cocaine is a product that is sold for profit in the United States. Mainstream political economy, let alone the other social sciences, has little to say about the process of extraction of surplus value in the production and distribution of cocaine, in other words, how cocaine is exploited for profit. The paper argues that the conventional framework, which locates profits generated from the cocaine trade in an economic model of crime shields a much deeper reality than simply ‘money laundering’ as a ‘legal problem.’ The central argument is that the cocaine trade in general, and the cocaine economy in particular, are a vital aspect of U.S. imperialism in the Colombian economic system. The paper tackles a critical problem: the place of cocaine in the re-colonization of Colombia – defined as ‘narcocolonialism’ – and the implications of the cocaine trade generally for U.S. imperialism in this context. The paper evaluates selected literature on the Colombian cocaine trade and offers an alternative framework underpinned by a political economy analysis drawn from Marx and Lenin showing that cocaine functions as an ‘imperial commodity’ – a commodity for which there exists a lucrative market and profit-making opportunity. It is also a means of capital accumulation by what could be termed, Colombia's comprador ‘narcobourgeoisie;’ dependent on U.S. imperialism. It is hoped that by analyzing cocaine with a Marxist interpretation and political economy approach, then future developments in understanding drugs in Colombia's complex political economy may be anticipated.