Concepts of environmental management applied to a wetland sector in Bahia Blanca estuary

CONTARDI ELENA; MELO, WALTER DANIEL; PICCOLO M.C.

Bahía Blanca

Encuentro; 4th OPEN SCIENCE MEETING. Land Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone.; 1999

Instituto Argentino de Oceanografía

The Bahia Blanca estuary, located in the south-west of Buenos Aires Province, covers about 2.500 km2. lt is contbrmcd by a system of channels separated by islands and wide tidal plains. This physical characteristic contributes to the system a wide wet.land area. The Principal Channel located to the north of the estuary, harbors a series of important ports and in the north veril, main urban centers as Bahia Blanca and Punta Alta. The tendency for great industrial development, accompanied by the growth of the urban centers of the northern sector, with progressive advances toward the wetland areas, commits the own functions a"l?t´ect.ing this natural system. Through the technique of environmental management, this work is guided to the study of the symptoms, the causes that motivate them and the effects or repercussions detected through them, trying to arrive to the tendencies of use of the involved area.