Emerging Technologies Associated with Environmental Risks
Fracking in Mendoza and Thermo-Valorization in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires: Coalitions in Controversy
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https://doi.org/10.52712/issn.1850-0013-431Keywords:
environmental risk, technologies, coalitions, fracking, wasteAbstract
This article studies what notions of environmental risk build different actors on emerging technologies and examines how these notions of risk are used in action strategies by coalitions that face environmental conflicts. We carried out a comparative study of two cases: the thermorecovery of waste in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires and the hydraulic fracture in the province of Mendoza. The results show coalitions that promote and attempt against technologies, and that some of them are made up of different fixed actors, while others oscillate between coalitions. Furthermore, both the detractors of emerging technologies and their promotors are State-society coalitions. Both have a specific and minimal vision of the problem: the detractors perceive high environmental risk, potential dependence on technologies, violation of social rights and limited institutional capacities to address these issues. Promotors have a low perception of risk, based on the possibility of addressing the issue with “good practices” and “clean technologies”, and considering a high benefit of an economic nature and of “modernization and progress”. In terms of actions, both coalitions use both formal and informal strategies.
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