SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL MEGA-MINING CONFLICTS IN ARGENTINA: NOTES FOR A REFLECTION IN HISTORICCAL PERSPECTIVE

Authors

  • Lucrecia Wagner Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina. Centro Científico Tecnológico (CCT) – Mendoza. Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales
Keywords: Environmental conflict, environmental movement, “big minning”, neigbours meeting

Abstract

This work analyses the features of groups which resigns themsleves to genesis of current environmental conflicts, that arose from Argentina by the potential installation of minning projects on a large scale. After the impact of different processes, it summarize the development of the ecologist/environmentalist movement and the particularities of this kind of movement emerged in this country. In addition, it makes a brief description of the minning history in this country, firstly metallic. At the same time, it characterizes how it is expressed in the institutionalized Argentina the environmental debate, regarding to the legal punishment on this subject, and how all these elements have fed the increasing environmental divisiveness, and the succes of the environmental organizations at the last decades.

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Published
31-12-2016
How to Cite
Wagner, L. (2016). SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL MEGA-MINING CONFLICTS IN ARGENTINA: NOTES FOR A REFLECTION IN HISTORICCAL PERSPECTIVE. Areas. International Social Science Journal, (35), 87–99. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/areas/article/view/279201