Historia y economía del bosque chaqueño: la mercantilización de los recursos forestales (1890-1950)

Abstract

This study of the socioeconomic evolution of the operation of the forest resources in the region of the Argentine Gran Chaco mainly analyzes the historical process of conformation of a marginal are a within the Argentine capitalist economy. Considering as his objects the existing relations between the beginning and development of the logging in the region. the capitalist cornpanies that impelled it, the manual labor. The ecological impact and social resultant of this process, and the forms of state intervention between 1890 and 1950, from an environmental historical approach.