Gestión interjurisdiccional de áreas naturales protegidas (Tucumán, Argentina)

Abstract

The end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century marked the rise in the implementation of a strategy for protecting nature through the category of “National Park” in Argentina, at a national level, and in Tucumán, at a provincial level, through the category “Provincial Park". This has formed two systems of biodiversity management models that are consolidated as disparate and disjointed, which far from deepening the protection of nature, exacerbate the insularity and disarticulation of the protected natural areas in the country, promoted by different interests. The process of formation of these two management models has been linked to different territorial dynamics related to natural dynamism and the different components of the physical environment, a dynamism which far from being simplified, was intensified by changes in international, national and local contexts. Contemplating this, the central objective of this work is to expose, analyse and understand the different logics, practices and territorial dynamics related to the management of the natural environment from a conservationist perspective, at an interjurisdictional level, in the province of Tucumán. The process of changing worldviews about nature and its management was accompanied by the strengthening of capitalist and neoliberal logics that made new actors visible, such as international NGOs that act as facilitating links for the concretion of new conservation strategies, which configure complex management systems of protected areas with “old new practices” that continue to make invisible the local population that is in contact with biodiversity.