{"id":14899,"date":"2014-12-31T13:14:09","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T18:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=14899"},"modified":"2021-02-04T10:16:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T15:16:27","slug":"gallagher-south-america-commodity-boom-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2014\/12\/31\/gallagher-south-america-commodity-boom-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallagher in WaPo on the South American Commodity Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2014\/12\/Environment-South-America.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2014\/12\/Environment-South-America-450x300.jpg\" alt=\"Environment-South-America\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2014\/12\/Environment-South-America-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2014\/12\/Environment-South-America-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2014\/12\/Environment-South-America-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2014\/12\/Environment-South-America.jpg 1484w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a>In speaking to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/the_americas\/south-american-commodity-boom-drives-deforestation-and-land-conflicts\/2014\/12\/31\/0c25e522-78cc-4075-8b21-31bcc3e0fddb_story.html\"><em>Washington Post<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/kevin-p-gallagher\/\">Prof. Kevin Gallagher<\/a> of the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies points out that the commodity boom in South America has had significant environmental costs, particularly in terms of deforestation and land conflicts.<\/p>\n<p>Interviewed for a news story titled <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/the_americas\/south-american-commodity-boom-drives-deforestation-and-land-conflicts\/2014\/12\/31\/0c25e522-78cc-4075-8b21-31bcc3e0fddb_story.html\">&#8220;South American Commodity Boom Drives Deforestation and Land Conflicts&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0(December 31, 2014),\u00a0<\/em>Prof. Gallagher is quoted as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cCommodity prices, directly or indirectly, have increased deforestation in the Amazon,\u201d said Kevin Gallagher, a development economist at Boston University who specializes in Latin America\u2019s trade relations with China. \u201cPrice increases create the perception of scarcity, which pushes investors into new terrain,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The news story goes on to quote him on explaining the phenomenon further:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cPrice declines and slower growth make nations more desperate, and they can be more apt to weakening environmental standards in order to grab at any investment.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Prof. Kevin P. Gallagher is the author of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sup.org\/book.cgi?id=20122\">The Dragon in the Room: China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization<\/a>\u201c\u00a0(with Roberto Porzecanski),<em>\u00a0\u201d<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/catalog\/item\/default.asp?ttype=2&amp;tid=11257\">The Enclave Economy: Foreign Investment and Sustainable Development in Mexico\u2019s Silicon Valley<\/a>\u201c\u00a0(with Lyuba Zarsky), and \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0804751250\/qid=1113482238\/sr=1-4\/ref=sr_1_4\/002-6432275-3414409?v=glance&amp;s=books\">Free Trade and the Environment: Mexico, NAFTA, and Beyond<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The full news story can be read <a href=\"\u201cPrice declines and slower growth make nations more desperate, and they can be more apt to weakening environmental standards in order to grab at any investment,\u201d\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Gallagher comments on the environmental costs of the South American commodity boom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8410],"tags":[9961,8572,1362,8571,8570],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14899"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14904,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14899\/revisions\/14904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}