The Approval process for the Montes del Queguay protected area

Conflicts, actors, challenges

Abstract

Protected areas are a privileged territorial planning tool by the States for the control of land use and the sustainability of socio-ecological systems. This article shows the integration process of Montes del Queguay to the National System of Protected Areas study in order to identify the conflicts that are generated between actors and interests regarding the appropriation of the ecosystem services in dispute. Through the conduction of semi-structured interviews with key informants, the periodization of the process was delimited in three phases (admission application project, area delimitation and preparation of the management plan) and we show how the configuration of the conflict and the positioning of the actors vary in time.