Mutaciones socioeconómicas y ambientales en un modelo territorial productivo: El caso del subsistema minero olavarriense

• Autores: Carlos Alberto Paz
• Localización: Theomai: estudios sobre sociedad, naturaleza y desarrollo, ISSN-e 1515-6443, Nº. 1, 2000
• Idioma: español
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  • This paper attempts to illustrate the transformations that occurred in a vast zone of mining exploitations after the development of a territorial productive model and the growth of the extracting activities in the Pampeana central region. The changes, specifically those derived from technological innovation, effected in a singular way, the traditional productive forms, the identity, and the way of life of the communities of stonecutters that evolved in the region from 1870. These small-scale mining companies were forced adapt to, and coexist with, the large commercial mineral extraction operations. The economic jolt of two decades ago and the influence of the mentioned factors, the development of the local, regional and national markets, modified all the production structures and their urban support systems. The labor communities of "La Providencia" and their neighbors of "Cerro Negro " and ,Calera Feitis", have disappeared, today they are " ghost towns." The abandoned and destroyed houses, the inactive quarries littered with rusting machinery, are the indicators of the disappearance of a micro society that once played an important role in the development of the region. Socioeconomic and environmental transformations do take place. Therefore, in specific territories and under certain economic and social conditions, this determines, in many cases, the potential for aggressions on the ecosystem, aggressions that enter in conflict with the interests of the human species.