¿La memoria de los paisajes o los paisajes de la memoria? Los enigmas de la sustentabilidad socioambiental en las geografías en disputa
The intelligibility of the relation between population and territory depends on the approach that is employed for understanding it. The social evaluation of environmental impacts represents a deeply western perspective that in its application has devastating effects over the local communities. The m...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal do Paraná
2011-01-01
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| Series: | Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente |
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| Online Access: | http://ojs.c3sl.ufpr.br/ojs2/index.php/made/article/viewFile/20774/14454 |
| Summary: | The intelligibility of the relation between population and territory depends on the approach that is employed for understanding it. The social evaluation of environmental impacts represents a deeply western perspective that in its application has devastating effects over the local communities. The main effect is the memory’s dislocation of the environment in which it is embedded. The dissociation of the memory from the landscape signals the end of a group´s socio-environmental sustainability, in which case the memory migrates from the environment to the remembrance of the environment. The landscaped embodiment of the community is uprooted and the community is forced to live upon the memory of the territory that once they had. The environmental impact assessment for a hydroelectric project in Neltume lake, in southern Chile, shows that the approach fails in identifying the nature of the human occupation of the territory. The case study invites to deploy a landscape analysis that demonstrates de socio-environmental symbiosis that embodies the community history in the local environment, focusing on the patterns that rule the modes of occupation of the human populations. |
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| ISSN: | 1518-952X 2176-9109 |