Article
Dams and socio-urban transformation. A comparative analysis of the Salto Grande and Yacyreta hydroelectric projects.
CIDADES, Comunidades e Territorios
(2016)
Abstract
The construction of great hydroelectric projects, generate a series of consequences of various nature (demographic, ecological, social, cultural) and one of them, is the relocation of urban population. In this paper we focus on the processes of relocations generated by the construction of hydroelectric dams of Salto Grande (Argentina-Uruguay) and Yacyretá (Paraguay-Argentina). Analyzing specifically the change generated on the cities of Nueva Federación and Posadas (Argentina) and Encarnación (Paraguay). Salto Grande dam created a lake of 30,000 hectares being almost 70% of the old Federación city flooded and moved to the city of Nueva Federación, built to 5 km from the original site. In the case of the cities of Posadas-Encarnación, the approach try look from another perspective the study of relocations, analyzing how the displaced population suffers the effects of displacement to be accompanied by the processes of socio-spatial segregation. We argue that can not understand the processes that occur in sets of population relocated from an insular approach, so it is necessary circumscribe the case inside the broader context of the social and urban transformation generated by the additional works of these projects.
Keywords
- Hydroelectric dams. Urban change. Socials effects. Resettlement. Salto Grande. Yacyretá.
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Publication Date
December 17, 2016
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.15847/citiescommunitiesterritories.dec2016.033.art04
Citation Information
Walter F Brites and Maria Rosa Catullo. "Dams and socio-urban transformation. A comparative analysis of the Salto Grande and Yacyreta hydroelectric projects." CIDADES, Comunidades e Territorios Vol. 33 (2016) p. 50 - 67 ISSN: 2182-3030 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/walterf-brites/1/
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