The dispute over science in the Mar Menor socio-environmental conflict

Abstract

Este artículo pretende llamar la atención sobre el impacto de la reproducción de la desigualdad en la cadena global agroalimentaria como una de las potenciales causas del profundo impacto ecológico de la agricultura intensiva sobre el Mar Menor. Tras describir los diagnósticos de las coaliciones agraria y ambiental y explorar la discrepancia acerca de, por un lado, el conflicto entre las coaliciones sobre el diagnóstico y, por otro lado, el consenso científico acerca de las causas de la contaminación del Mar Menor, describimos la importancia de las relaciones de poder en las cadenas globales de valor y las vinculaciones emocionales al territorio y a la agricultura para tratar de entender algunas de las posiciones en el conflicto.The article attempts to situate the socio-environmental conflict ofthe Mar Menor in a fundamental dispute over the configuration of the meaning of environmental sustainability of agricultural practices. The configuration of sustainability is open to a political, cultural and social dispute that takes place in the productive space, but also in the political, institutional and associative space of the region. In this dispute, the actors involved (companies and associations of the sector, regional institutions, municipalities, social movements, environmental associations, neighborhood associations, etc.) mobilize different types of resources, values and knowledge; and, on the other hand, they directly or indirectly express different conceptions of the relationship between nature, economy and society. Within this general framework, the article aims to explore how the agrarian coalition has mobilized the creation of organizations and the production of scientific knowledge in order to promote its own model of ecological transition

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