Why Environmental Conflicts Can Be Productive: The Conflict over the Environmental Restoration of the Matanza-Riachuelo River Basin in Buenos Aires


Publisher: Equilibri

Author(s): MarĂ­a Gabriela Merlinsky

Date: 2020

Topics: Conflict Causes, Governance, Renewable Resources

Countries: Argentina

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The purpose of this paper is exposing the authors' approach in the study of environmental conflict, and show illustrations from their research work on the conflict over the environmental restoration of the Matanza-Riachuelo River Basin. The paper refers to the territorial effects of the conflict and seeks to raise some questions to feed the debate on the metropolitan environmental issue.