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This is when spaces for the dramatization of the public problem are opened up ( GUSFIELD, 1981 GUSFIELD, J.

These oppositions give rise to the opening up of controversies on different events, to the emergence of different debates on future scenarios, and to a greater availability of options to face different problems. Rio de Janeiro: Relume-Dumará: Fundação Heinrich Boll, 2004. Conflitos ambientais no Rio de Janeiro: ação e debate nas arenas públicas. Por uma Sociologia dos conflitos ambientais no Brasil. Environmental conflicts originate from oppositions between different groups in relation to the differentiated forms of appropriation, use and meanings of natural assets (SABATTINI, 1997 ALONSO and COSTA, 2002 ALONSO, A Y COSTA, V.

The social and cultural context is important for the building of this knowledge that stimulates the organized action of the local community to resist externalities and their associated impacts. 2001.).Ī certain environmental impact produced by an intervention on the territory translates into an environmental problem when the population can apprehend its potential risk. La construcción social y política del medio ambiente. It is when social actors feel threatened in their very conception of life by risks they perceive as significant that they decide to organize themselves and protest against harm ( HANNIGAN, 1995 HANNIGAN, John. On certain occasions, the population chooses to ignore problems because they find it extremely difficult to find either strategies or resources of institutional or political power to take action in pursuit of certain changes. What are the territorial consequences of the different extractive activities in the medium and the long term? What social, economic or environmental impact do these activities have on local communities and their way of life? Diverse collective actions expressed in the public sphere open up questions around the alleged benefits of development.

Over the last decades, both in Argentina and other Latin American countries, conflictivity has increased in relation to the access to, the availability, the appropriation and the management of natural resources.