Dams and socio-urban transformation. A comparative analysis of the Salto Grande and Yacyretá hydroelectric projects

Authors

  • Walter Fernando Brites Universidad Nacional de Misiones (UNaM), Posadas, Misiones
  • María Rosa Catullo Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), La Plata, Buenos Aires

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5902/2236672526326

Keywords:

Urban chang, Socials effects, Resettlement, Salto Grande, Yacyretá.

Abstract

The realizations of large hydroelectric projects produce a series of consequences of different characteristic (demographic, ecological, social, cultural) being one of them, the relocation of urban population. In this paper we focus on the processes of relocations, generated by the construction of hydroelectric dams Salto Grande (Argentina-Uruguay) and Yacyretá (Paraguay-Argentina). Specifically analyzing the changes generated in the cities of New Federation and Posadas (Argentina) and Encarnación (Paraguay). Salto Grande dam created a lake of 30,000 hectares being almost 70% of the old city of Federation flooded and transferred to the city of New Federation built 5 km from the original site. In the case of the cities of Posadas-Encarnacion the approach attempting to resize the studying of relocations, analyzing how the relocated population experience the singular effects of displacement, being accompanied by the processes of socio-spatial segregation. We think that can not understand the processes that occur in the housing complexes for population relocated from an insular approach, but is necessary circumscribe it to general context of the social and urban transformation generated by the additional works of the Yacyretá project.

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Published

2017-03-24

How to Cite

Brites, W. F., & Catullo, M. R. (2017). Dams and socio-urban transformation. A comparative analysis of the Salto Grande and Yacyretá hydroelectric projects. Século XXI: Journal of Social Sciences, 6(2), 222–248. https://doi.org/10.5902/2236672526326

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 2 (2016): Dossier State, Entrepreneurship and Society

Section

Varia

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