Abstract

LOPERA GONZALEZ, Mario Alfonso. A Proposal of Mining Formalization in Antioquia’s Bajo Cauca Through the Special Reserve Areas. The Institutional Analysis and Development Framework as an Approach to Institutional Design. Estud. Polit. [online]. 2020, n.58, pp.141-166. ISSN 0121-5167.  https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.espo.n58a07.

Gold rising prices at the dawn of the 21st Century have led to a gold rush in Colombia. However, most of the mining in the national territory is made without the minimum legal permits required. Informal gold mining is associated with multiple problems such as resource overuse, environmental externalities, illegal armed groups financing, among others. Thus, public policy as a discipline is called to promote adequate mechanisms for mining formalization. The article depicts an integral implementation of the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework (IAD) (universal interaction blocks, ADICO syntax, generic rule typology) in analysing, from an institutional design perspective, the context of the Special Reserves Areas in Antioquia’s Bajo Cauca. The analysis highlights the utility of the IAD framework for diagnosis and public policy design, and the difficulties that arise from the context and the legal arrangement in trying to use the Special Reserves Areas as an instrument for formalization in the Bajo Cauca.

Keywords : Mining; Mineral Resources Conflicts; Mining Formalization; Institutional Analysis and Development; ADICO Syntax; Colombia.

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