Dr. Cecilia Campero’s research focuses on the political economy/ecology of natural resource extraction and development. Her primary interests are in water politics, local and regional development, gender equality, indigenous rights, impact assessments and equity dimensions of resource management.
Her geographic focus is on Canada, and Latin America, with publications appearing in such high-ranking journals as The Extractive Industries and Society, Environmental Science and Policy, and Marine Policy.
Campero is currently principal investigator on a SSHRC-IDG funded project on Indigenous Knowledge, the Sustainable Development Goals and Impact Assessments (2024-2026).
Experience
Dr. Campero has experience working in the public and non-profit sectors. She has spearheaded projects with a focus on gender equality in the mining sector with the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation and worked for national NGOs such as the World Fisheries Trust.
She is also an Associate Faculty in the School of Business at Royal Roads University and a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at McMaster University (2023-2025). Previously, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia (2017-2020).
Education
2017
PhD in Territorial Studies
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
2010
Master of Environment and Human Settlements
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
2007
Bachelor of Law
Universidad Catolica Boliviana
Publications
Campero, C., Andrews, N., & Smith-Carrier, T. (2024). Mining, the sustainable development goals and impact assessments: a review of governance and local impacts. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 42(5), 423-436.
Campero, C., Harris, L.M., Rodriguez, A., and Kunz, N. (2023) Women’s participation in the mining industry: tracing the business case across APEC countries. The Extractive Industries and Society.
Campero, C., Bennett, N. and Arriagada, N. (2023). Technologies of dispossession: socio-environmental impacts of seawater desalination in the Antofagasta mining Region of Chile. The Geographical Journal 189, 231–245.
Campero, C. Harris, L.M and Kunz, N.C (2021). De-politicising seawater desalination: the case of EIA in the Atacama mining Region, Chile. Environmental Science and Policy 120:187-194.
Bennett, N., Blythe, J., White C. and Campero C. (2021) Blue growth and blue justice: Ten risks and solutions for the ocean economy. Marine Policy 125:104387.
Román, A. and Campero, C. (2020). Propiedad y gobernanza: legitimando el derecho a explotar. Investigaciones Geográficas, (59), 6-15.
Campero, C. and Harris, L. (2019). The legal geographies of water claims: seawater desalination in mining regions in Chile. Water, 11(5), 886.
Campero, C. and Barton, J. (2014) “You have to be with God and the Devil”: Social licences and local collaboration in the Bolivian mining sector: Linking extractive industries and local development. Bulletin of Latin American Research 34 (2), 167-183.
Rodríguez, C., Campero, C., Baeza, S., Jiménez, E., Vélez, S. and Ramírez, D. (2016) Sistemas de Información Territorial para la Gobernanza Regional (Universidad Católica del Norte).
Rodríguez, C. et al (2015) Desafíos en agua y energía en regiones mineras desérticas: Recomendaciones y líneas de discusión para la promoción y difusión del uso de energías renovables no convencionales y diversificación de la matriz hídrica de la región de Antofagasta (Universidad Católica del Norte).
Baeza, S., Barton, J., Campero, C., León, S., Rodríguez, C. and Solís, O. (2014) ¿Cuán Sustentable es la Región de Antofagasta? Indicadores y Tendencias para un desarrollo Regional Sustentable? (Universidad Católica del Norte).
Campero, C. and Harris, L. (2019). The legal geographies of water claims: seawater desalination in mining regions in Chile in Harris, L.M., Shah, S.H., Wilson N.J., and Nelson, J. (eds.) Water Governance: Retheorizing Politics, (MDPI), pp. 48-68.
Barton, J., Campero, C. and Baeza, S. (2016) 'El despertar social frente a la “maldición institucional”: una década de justicia y minería en Chile’ inCisneros, P. (ed) Política minera y sociedad civil en América Latina. Ecuador: Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales (IAEN), pp. 265-293.
Barton, J., Campero, C. and Maher, R. (2013) 'The Chilean Wage': Mining and the Janus face of the Chilean development model, in Nem Singh, J. (ed) Resource Governance and Developmental States in the Global South: Critical International Political Economy Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 127-148.
Haarstad, H. and Campero, C. (2012) ‘Extraction, Regional Integration, and the Enduring Problem of Local Political Spaces’ in Håvard Haarstad (ed) New Political Spaces in Latin American Natural Resource Governance (Palgrave Macmillan).
Bennett, N., Blythe, J., White C. and Campero C. (2020) Blue growth and blue (in)justice: Ten risks associated with the ocean economy.
Campero, C., Rodriguez, A., Harris, L. and Kunz, N. (2019) APEC Women’s Participation in the Mining Industry. APEC Policy Partnership on Women and the Economy. APEC.
Haarstad, H. and Campero, C. (2011) Participation in the Bolivian hydrocarbons sector: The "double discourse" and limitations on participatory governance. URBECO-report 04/11, Center for Urban Ecology.
Kunz, N., Campero, C., Nicolau, C., Pagliero, L. Desalinated water infrastructure optimization under competing trade-offs in the Antofagasta mining region of Chile. Proceedings of Copper CU2019 August 18-21, 2019, Vancouver, Canada.
Campero, C. (2018). “Don't Make Waves:” Desalinated Water and the Social Licence to Operate in the Atacama Region, Chile. Proceedings of Mine Water Solutions 2018 June 12–15, 2018, Vancouver, Canada. Published by the University of British Columbia.