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CARUSO, Sergio Adrián. Gambeteando la reserva: conflictos ambientales y urbanización de humedales. El caso de la Laguna de Rocha (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Rev. Univ. geogr. [online]. 2021, vol.30, n.1, pp. 171-197. ISSN 1852-4265.

In recent decades, Argentina's wetlands have been characterized as areas of marked environmental conflict, particularly those located in the vicinity of the Greater Buenos Aires Agglomerate. These sites, which had traditionally been urbanized by the least favored groups, began to be valued and were incorporated into the city limits during the neoliberal era by new social actors who were better positioned in socioeconomic terms and in the framework of power relationships. From late 1990s, various civic organizations, following the provisions of the Ramsar Convention, have been demanding the conservation of the remaining wetlands through parks and reserves. As a result, these areas became spaces of dispute among different social actors with opposing interests, logics and positioning, which led to environmental conflicts. Laguna de Rocha is an empirical reference of what have been stated above. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to characterize the process of urbanization and conservation of these floodable lands, putting emphasis on the environmental conflict related to the transfer of Laguna de Rocha's lands, which had been recognized as a nature reserve by law, to the Racing Club Civil Association.

Palavras-chave : Wetlands; Environmental Conflicts; Urbanization; Conservation; Laguna de Rocha; Territorial Planning.