Abstract

ZARRILLI, Adrián. FORESTS AND AGRICULTURE: AN OVERVIEW OF THE HISTORICAL LIMITS OF SUSTAINABILITY OF ARGENTINEAN FORESTS WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF 20TH CENTURY CAPITALIST EXPLOITATION. Luna Azul [online]. 2008, n.26, pp.87-106. ISSN 1909-2474.

At the end of the 19th century, there were in Argentina 160 million hectares of natural forests, mountains and original jungles. In less than half a century, the country lost more than two-thirds of its aboriginal forests. Currently, the country has less than 33 million hectares of native forests. The exploitation of this extraordinary Argentinean forest wealth is the starting point of this historical analysis that intends to study, from an environmental history perspective, the evolution of forest exploitation in the 20th century and its relation to the expansion of the capitalist agricultural model. The main objective of the text is centered on the study of the deforestation process within the context of its participation in the market and the relation between said phenomenon and the agricultural frontier expansion, its artificial transformation, conflicts, specialization levels, rationality, interaction and the deterioration of forest resources.

Keywords : History; Argentina; forest; environment; sustainability.

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