Papers by Catherine Roulier
Heterogeneidad social en el campo argentino: Múltiples miradas para su análisis, 2018
La provincia de Santa Cruz cuenta con una superficie de 243.943 km², es la segunda con mayor exte... more La provincia de Santa Cruz cuenta con una superficie de 243.943 km², es la segunda con mayor extensión territorial del país, luego de la provincia de Buenos Aires. De acuerdo a su extensión presenta un bajo grado de ocupación-8,8 % de la superficie-con una población de 273.964 habitantes según resultados del Censo Nacional de Población, Hogares y Viviendas 2010, lo que arroja una densidad poblacional de 1,1 habitante por km 2. El 96 % de los habitantes de la provincia habitan en centros urbanos consolidados durante el siglo xx mediante políticas de impulso a la explotación de los recursos naturales. Esto dio lugar a un sistema de asentamientos de dispersa localización que dificulta la comunicación dentro del territorio provincial. La población actualmente se concentra en 14 ciudades, 6 comisiones de fomento y algunos asentamientos. Según datos del Programa de Asistencia Técnica para el Desarrollo del Sector Minero Argentino, el Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria y el Consejo Agrario Provincial, el 99,6 % del territorio de Santa Cruz está distribuido en explotaciones agropecuarias (EAPs) de más de 2.500 ha. Las EAPs con superficies menores a 100 ha están ubicadas en el oeste de la provincia, en la zona cordillerana o en espacios periurbanos, y son denominadas catastralmente, en los municipios de la zona, como "chacras". El área abordada en este artículo se ubica en el sudoeste santacruceño sobre el lecho cordillerano,
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021
In the past few decades, natural scientists and natural resource managers have come to recognize ... more In the past few decades, natural scientists and natural resource managers have come to recognize that environmental problems have causes and consequences that are both ecological and social (Carpenter et al. 2009). For example, as an academic discipline, ecology increasingly acknowledges that ecosystems are not only composed of biotic and abiotic elements but also that humans form an integral part of what are ostensibly socio-ecological systems (Pickett and Ostfeld 1995; Anderson et al. 2015a). As a result, efforts are being made to expand the ways that issues, such as biological invasions, ecological restoration, or biodiversity conservation, are studied and managed to address them not only as ecological systems but also their social domain and human dimensions (Collins et al. 2011; Díaz et al. 2015; Pascual et al. 2017). Yet, significant work still remains to achieve this goal. For example, studies about invasive exotic species have a clear biological bias at the national level in Chile (Quiroz et al. 2009), at the regional scale in Patagonia (Anderson and Valenzuela 2014) and the Southern Cone (Ballari et al. 2016), across the Latin American continent (Pauchard et al. 2011) and even globally (Estévez et al. 2015; Vaz et al. 2017). Therefore, the relative dearth of interdisciplinary, applied, and social studies about biological invasions explain why they continue to increase and currently constitutes a barrier to addressing it as a socio-ecological problem.
Conservation and Society, 2020
To determine global trends in ecological restoration (ER) research, we conducted a geographically... more To determine global trends in ecological restoration (ER) research, we conducted a geographically-explicit English-language literature review. We assessed a representative sample (n=603) of publications that use the ER concept (n=8,678). Only 19.2% (n=118) were explicit ER studies, and these were evaluated to determine geographic location, research framework, ER paradigm, journal disciplinary orientation, article type, disturbance factor studied, and ER-response measurements. The Global North produced 2x more studies than the South, and ecological research frameworks predominated overall. However, significantly more Southern studies operated under a postmodern paradigm (i.e., addressing ecosystem processes, functions and health) than in the North, where more studies sought to reconstitute pre-disturbance biotic assemblages (i.e., classical paradigm). Both regions published mostly in natural science journals, but significantly more in the North; in the South, there were significantly more publications in engineering journals. An incipient socio-ecological research framework was detected in the North (23.1%) and South (32.5%), but social science studies were only found in the North (11.5%). Plus, the North had significantly more conceptual publications. Opportunities exist in both regions to enhance a holistic ER perspective. Southern scientists and practitioners could pay attention to context-specific concepts and approaches. Understanding global and regional ER research trends can contribute to improving theoretical, practical and ethical outcomes.
Social-ecological Systems of Latin America: Complexities and Challenges, 2019
Latin America can be understood from multiple perspectives, due to its high biological and ecosys... more Latin America can be understood from multiple perspectives, due to its high biological and ecosystemic diversity, intertwined with myriad historical, cultural, social, economic, and political contexts that together condition its social-ecological systems (SES). However, frequently within academic and management agencies, dominant paradigms and models have been imported from the Global North. Consequently, there is a need to recognize and incorporate local and regional (i.e., context-specific) characteristics to understand the SES of territories where there are complex interdependences.
Biological Invasions, 2020
Your article is protected by copyright and all rights are held exclusively by Springer Nature Swi... more Your article is protected by copyright and all rights are held exclusively by Springer Nature Switzerland AG. This e-offprint is for personal use only and shall not be selfarchived in electronic repositories. If you wish to self-archive your article, please use the accepted manuscript version for posting on your own website. You may further deposit the accepted manuscript version in any repository, provided it is only made publicly available 12 months after official publication or later and provided acknowledgement is given to the original source of publication and a link is inserted to the published article on Springer's website. The link must be accompanied by the following text: "The final publication is available at link.springer.com".
Entreciencias: Diálogos en la Sociedad del Conocimiento, 2022
La literatura que analiza los problemas del desarrollo relacionados con la utilización de los rec... more La literatura que analiza los problemas del desarrollo relacionados con la utilización de los recursos naturales es amplia y de larga data. Un grupo de contribuciones dedicadas especialmente a analizar escenarios, configuraciones y conflictos que suceden en los denominados “países subdesarrollados”, se han propuesto cuestionar cómo la herencia de la modernidad y la colonialidad han colocado y afianzado a Latinoamérica en un rol de exportación de naturaleza. En contraposición, los “países desarrollados” se han especializado en la producción de tecnologías y otros bienes industriales, de mayor valor agregado y de necesidad crucial para el crecimiento y la productividad de las economías en desarrollo. En dicho escenario, luego de la década de los 90 pueden destacarse dinámicas socio-económicas y político-institucionales que implican una continuidad del denominado consenso de Washington. Así, la situación de los países latinoamericanos, atravesada por persistentes condiciones de desigua...
Bosque (Valdivia), 2017
In 2008, Argentina and Chile signed an agreement to eradicate North American beavers (Castor cana... more In 2008, Argentina and Chile signed an agreement to eradicate North American beavers (Castor canadensis) and restore degraded forests. The plans and actions related to this treaty have been conducted principally by experts with biological knowledge, paying scant attention to social aspects. From a socio-ecological approach, we evaluated the perspectives of two groups of key stakeholders (managers and researchers) from Argentinean and Chilean institutions. Via surveys, we compared i) attitudes towards the binational agreement's two objectives (eradication and restoration), ii) the reasons that underlie these positions, and iii) the opinions about obstacles in implementing the agreement. The majority of both groups agreed with the two objectives, nonetheless managers supported more the eradication of the beaver and researchers supported more the restoration of degraded forests. These positions were based on biological arguments (e.g., ecological harm, being an exotic species), more than on social ones (e.g., ethics, economic impact). Paradoxically, managers and researchers identified the lack of information on social topics (e.g., internal management, interinstitutional cooperation, financing) as the main obstacle for the implementation of the agreement. While there was a high level of consensus, dissident positions were found among these stakeholders, whose profile is rather homogeneous. Managers particularly emphasized politico-institutional topics. Consequently, we are called upon to deepen and increase attention towards social dimensions in the approach to biological invasions to diversify the perspectives towards the problem, as well as to optimize and improve outcomes of potential actions in complex and heterogeneous societies.
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