Latin America's colonial history was marked by resource extraction for foreign trade—a legacy that persists in its post-colonial economies.
This project investigates the phenomenon of one-company towns in Brazil, where mining or oil extraction drives local economies.
The research maps and compares municipalities dominated by single extractive industries, exploring the economic, environmental, and social challenges they face. It aims to identify the factors that drive some towns to diversify economically while others remain dependent on a single industry, analyzing the spatial, political, and social implications of this dependency.
