Natural Sciences and Environmental Issues: a contribution from the Philosophy of Environmental Sciences

DI PASQUO, FEDERICO; FOLGUERA, GUILLERMO; DI PASQUO, FEDERICO; FOLGUERA, GUILLERMO; KLIER, GABRIELA; BLOIS, PAULA; KLIER, GABRIELA; BLOIS, PAULA; BUSAN, TOMAS; FRANCESE, CHRISTIAN; BUSAN, TOMAS; FRANCESE, CHRISTIAN

International Journal of Environment and Health

Inderscience Publishers

Lugar: Houston; Año: 2017 vol. 8 p. 255 - 271

1743-4963

The environmental issue has been considered a ?starting point? forcertain epistemological transformations that aim at rethinking the way ofperforming science and interpreting the nature-society relationship. In thispaper, we will explore controversial disputes in the natural science fieldthrough the analysis of a particular case study: the socio-environmental issues(SEIs) in the Argentinean Gran Chaco. Analysing the relation betweenscientific problems and SEIs and the traditional scientific approximations, ourconclusions point that environmental issues arouse challenges to the sciences,to the way they are thought of, situated and built. They make manifestation ofthe idea that it is crucial to recover the ?for what? of the scientific practice,building a science that dialogues with other voices and with a starting pointin local and situated problems.