Abstract

PERALES MIRANDA, Víctor Hugo. SOCIAL WATERSHED AS A SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACH TO INTERVENTIONS IN ATERSHEDS RELEVANT REFLECTIONS. Temas Sociales [online]. 2016, n.39, pp.221-240. ISSN 0040-2915.

In this paper we develop the concept of social watershed to visualize social interventions, territorial, political struggles, socio-environmental conflicts and other sociological aspects which takes place in the environmental space of watersheds; although management or watershed management plans have incorporated the social dimension in the conceptualization, this addition is usually performed obviating the complexity of the social factors that are woven at the time the watershed is territorialised. The social dimension, the time to understand the management of a watershed, contains the social economic dynamics, the struggle for economic, political and cultural between a lot of stakeholders in this type of environmental spaces. In this sense, it is made a revision of how it was conceptualized watersheds, in order to propose a definition of social watershed.

Keywords : social watershed; watershed; territory; power relations; watershed management.

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