Protected Natural Areas and Hydrocarbons Regime in Peru

The main objective of this research is to identify the legal regime governing the exploitation of hydrocarbons in protected natural areas in Peru. For this purpose, legislative, jurisprudential and doctrinal sources of Peruvian and comparative law are used, always taking into account the evolution of the institutions concerned.

Its author is the eminent Dr. Fernando López Ramón, whose work is the result of a thorough review of the legal history of our country, to then introduce the central axes of the study: natural protected areas and hydrocarbons. In his development, he focuses on the legal figures that have defined or define both the natural resources and the dominion over them, as well as the sense of ownership that involves the State in public affairs.

This research, which does not seek to define or reflect an institutional position of the SPDA on the subject, represents a necessary academic effort to enrich the debate on the exploitation of hydrocarbons in Peru’s protected natural areas.