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Dilemmas of South American Natural Resources. The Case of South American Transboundary Basins and Integration

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The South American natural resources are generating various decisional dilemmas regarding pollution, use and distribution visualized on the basis of institutional consensus. Regarding that water is one of the principal riches and originalities of the South American continent, we have become interested in the confluence of integration and the dilemmas of use among those who share the water resource and also build integration. We wanted to visualize the tensions that challenge the resources considered in order to see the possibilities of consensus. The cases considered are the Amazon Basins, the Cuenca del Plata and Madeira and the Guarani Aquifer. The work is based on theoretical concepts defined initially within a phenomenological perspective of situated realism. About the end of the description and the analysis turns on these foundations to make a final balance.

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Seitz, A.M. (2020). Dilemmas of South American Natural Resources. The Case of South American Transboundary Basins and Integration. In: Lorenzo, C. (eds) Latin America in Times of Global Environmental Change. The Latin American Studies Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24254-1_3

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