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The distance between the normative wish and the observable results in relation with environmental question suggest that the analyses on the subject of the bureaucratic capabilities of the state is an urgent matter of concern. This work suggest that need of an analysis at the national level in Argentina in order to produce public policies for the environmental sector. The work gives some conceptual and empirical elements to allow the acknowledgment of the bureaucratic capabilities of the state within the environmental field. It also describes the evolution of the subject at the national level and suggest a few propositions in order to led its discussion and future improvements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Intergovernmental coordination is a key factor to achieve a homogeneous implementation in national policies. However, the bibliography of coordination argues that the horizontal coordination (among jurisdictions of the same level of government) does not occur. On the contrary, this paper asks: Which factors produces that the subnational jurisdictions decide to act together to enforce a national environmental policy? Based on comparative analysis of the formulation process of the adequation laws to the National Forest Law in Argentina, I argue that the provinces act together when there are a regularized and legitim institutional frame available and a structures of incentives that produce that the locals politicians decide formulate and enforce an environmental policy in theirs jurisdictions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The central objective of this work was to realize a survey and analysis about strengths and weaknesses of the main regulation for plant and forest health at a provincial level in Argentina, and regarding the existence of public agencies dedicated to inspection and control in said field. In this way it was analyzed, if the legal tools available are sufficient enough for all social actors involved in activity forestry, can defend their rights favourably. In the first place, we highlight the implementation of a comparative analysis of provincial jurisdictions of Argentina, except form the Autonomous city of Buenos Aires and the national level. In this context it was possible to conclude that the detection of overlapping agencies of control (many times within the same jurisdiction), and in some law cases where the stipulated deadline was not met for the dictation of a regulatory decree, which made it difficult to apply in practice. They glimpsed different levels of normative development in the jurisdictional provinces analyzed, linked with plant and forest health. Also the same ones are not uniform and vary notably according to the region of the country, and it is not always linked to the existence or not of forest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to make an analysis of the main issues of environmental or ecosystem services regulations in Argentina, and a brief reference of a selection of Latin American countries laws (Peru and Costa Rica). We implemented the documental observation and normative comparative methods. One of the main results is that during last year many bills of laws were presented at the National Congress, which guidelines might be useful as precedents. Notwithstanding, in parallel an integral evaluation must be made in order to state if some valid environmental laws should be or not abolished, in order to avoid new contradictions. One of the main limitations for the argentine case, is that there is not a specific regulation about environmental services. We can conclude that in the case of other countries of the region which already have regulated the ecosystem services payment, there are some relevant issues which might be taken into account for future laws and/or public policies in Argentina. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since environmental topic was included in the international agenda, expectations were created about the role of Law as a discipline and tool to mitigate, prevent and compensate anthropogenic ecosystem damages. In this paper there will be an approach to an issue which was little addressed in social, legal and environmental sciences: legal-institutional fragmentation as an obstacle to achieve sustainable development goals, especially in water management. It was implemented as a documental-bibliographical, descriptive and diachronic design. The methodology used is qualitative, mainly legal hermeneutics. Preliminary, we concluded that regulatory chaos which was applied to the Matanza-Riachuelo basin, allowed failed institutional settlements creating an adverse scenery for the environmental paradigm application in different dimensions: to favour corrupted actions, to difficult information access and authorities petitions right, because they both represent an obstacle to achieve citizen's participation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Upon the 1972 Stockholm Conference, the first Argentine environmental agency was early created with the return to democracy in 1973. Nevertheless, the creation of state environmental institutions was not incremental and only gained strength in the 1990s. Simultaneously, social environmental organizations have arisen in successive waves from the mid-60s through today. This article traces back the emergence of environmental institutions and the way in which state and social actors have interacted along the process. We argue that social environmentalism and the creation of state environmental institutions moved through separate roads and had no major contact until the beginning of the new millennium, when a new kind of social environmentalism managed to impact the government agenda due to a number of environmental conflicts. We also argue that the journey of social and state environmentalism in Argentina must be understood in the light of international influence (both ideological-normative and financial) and of the dynamics of the political regime. Regarding the latter, we show that both regime change and institutional changes within the regime have favored the development of a public environmental agenda and its connection with the government agenda. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This communication discusses on the usefulness of the specific approach of Political Psychology for the analysis of environmental conflicts. In this sense, it begins by outlining the debt that Argentinian Political Psychology has in the treatment of the environmental dimension. Subsequently, three main lines of approach to environmental issues that challenge the discipline are presented: the emergence of new environmental social movements, which generate new forms of political actions; the tensions surrounding the modern notion of citizenship generated from the demands of the environmental social movements and the consequent emergence of environmental citizenship, and finally, the challenges these phenomena involved in the processes of political socialization. In this framework, we discuss the implications not only cientifical but also ethical associated with political psychologist's role as an agent inevitably committed to the changes in its historical time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Se discuten la evaluación y el análisis de las políticas y programas de desarrollo rural y ambiental. En particular, se enfoca en el impacto que generan en la calidad de vida y en el manejo de servicios ambientales. Se presentan seis artículos sobre las experiencias de productores y productoras en Venezuela, Costa Rica, Colombia, México y Argentina.

El artículo discurre sobre las políticas gubernamentales relacionadas con la administración ambiental, especialmente la gestión de agua potable. Las autoras comentan sobre el caso de Argentina y las políticas públicas para el manejo del agua dulce. También se considera el acceso a agua limpia como un derecho civil.