ISES   20394
INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ESTUDIOS SOCIALES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Socio-environmental change in the Argentine Chaco
Autor/es:
KRAPOVICKAS, JULIETA; PINO VILALTA, JOAN; CLARAMUNT LÓPEZ, BERNAT; PAOLASSO, PABLO
Lugar:
Berlín
Reunión:
Conferencia; Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change; 2010
Resumen:
The Argentine Chaco eco-region is a forest biome of unique importance due to
its continuity in terms of area, and biodiversity treasures. In the last decades of
the twentieth century, agricultural expansion has represented a growing threat to
the ecosystem and for the people who inhabit it. Due to this process, significant
ecological changes, and social and demographic transformations, are taking
place, parallel.
The aims of this paper are to analyze the socio-environmental change occurred
after the expansion of soybean cultivation in the Argentine Chaco in the 1990s,
and examine the consequences of such expansion in environmental and sociodemographic
processes.
To perform this analysis, we examined the relative impact of changes in agrarian
production in general and the introduction of soybeans in particular, on
demographics, socioeconomics and environmental dynamics, through path
analysis. This analysis carried out at departmental level, considering a total of 69
departments of the Argentine Chaco.
As socio-environmental change models development, as their interpretation, are
based on the detailed analysis of the literature, where the main theories of the
issue were collected. The analysis consisted in contrast these hypotheses with
empirical data to finding a general pattern explaining the process of socioenvironmental
change for the Argentine Chaco in the 1990s.