Environment, Sustainability and Inequality: the Case of the Landfill in San Carlos de Bariloche (2001-2019)

Abstract

This article analyzes the link between three concepts: environment, sustainability and inequality. From the case of the Land fill of the city of San Carlos de Bariloche (Río Negro), the distributive effects of environmental policies (or the lack of them) are analyzed in three interdependent actors: social, private and state (including scientific-technological). Reconstructing the information from semi-structured interviews with key actors and bibliographic works that address this case, this article seeks to answer the question, what reasons explain why the main environmental problem in the city of Bariloche cannot besolved? Itis concluded that the lack of a minimum vision among the group of actors overtime issufficient reason for the impossibility of solving the main environmental problem
of the city