Political ecology of socio-environmental tensions and conflicts in the Ñuble Region

Abstract

The study characterizes the territorial expression of productive activities in the Ñuble region, according to the various categories determined by the SEIA for their evaluation. The political ecology approach is considered in the analysis, diagnosis and understanding of the relationship that the Chilean development model has in the different territories, showing that its extractivist character confronts socio-territorial dynamics, producing socio-environmental tensions that are necessary to make explicit. For this, 319 productive activities are identified, and the main socio-environmental conflicts in the region are characterized, based on an overall vision that allows inferring the scarce territorial relationship that these activities have in the definition of progress, growth and local development.