Un laberinto de papel. Fábricas de pasta de celulosa y conflicto socioambiental en el río Uruguay

Abstract

Pulp mills are potentially damaging to the environment and have been the focus of conflicts in many parts of the world. In the case of the installation of a pulp mill in the Uruguayan shore of the Uruguay River, which is at the same time the international border with Argentina, the formation of a strong and spontaneous environmental social movement in the argentine city of Gualeguaychú against the pulp mill, made that a relatively small and local socio-environmental controversy became an almost intractable international conflict. The new scale eliminates the possibility of reaching any solution not implying —on both sides of the river— excessively high social, political, and economic costs for everyone involved.