Abstract
AbstractWhat environmental damage occurred during Colonial Spain’s gold mining and how is it possible to calculate those damages today. This thesis looks at the potential of designing an Economic Compensation Framework for Environmental Damage in a historical setting. The approach includes an interdisciplinary historical review of time period and geographical location related to gold mining in New Granada by Colonial Spain. Categories are examined for the ability to gather information (or potential information) for an economic/environmental framework that allows for future calculations of environmental damage/protection of human health. Thesis concludes with a workable approach to this problem to be developed in a future project.
Key Words compensation, environmental damage, historical mining, interdisciplinary approach, and history