VIDA, MUERTE Y RESURRECCIÓN DE LAS CIUDADES MINERAS

Estrategias territoriales para escribir una historia diferente

Abstract

In this research we will analyze the cities development by and for mining explotation, their economic dynamism, their evolution, their decline, or their regeneration in certain cases. We will try to reveal the common patterns that mining cities present in the world, the problems and the potential they have to generate a new development, through the study of a couple of cases: the city of Trbovlje, in Slovenia.and and the city of Andacollo in Chile.

This work seeks to show the importance of implementing territorial strategies and taking measures in those cities before mining closes, in order to plan its continuation when mining production comes to an end.

European examples will be analyzed seeing how the decline of the activity can mean the crisis of a settlement, due to the difficulty of transforming the economic activity of these places, since it is difficult to replace the level of prosperity that mining provides with other activities. Being condemned many times to death and abandonment. We will see how the implementation of certain territorial planning strategies can mean the resurrection of these cities.

It is intended to parallel the European case with that of Chile, the main copper producer in the world, where Andacollo is a fully active mining city, in which implementing certain territorial strategies could contribute to directing its future to a sustainable development for their habitants.

Keywords: city, mining, sustainable development, industry, environment.