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Valparaíso, Chile
En la bahía de Quintero-Puchuncaví se plantea la tensión entre el desarrollo económico y la preservación de los recursos naturales y la calidad de vida. Se realizó un estudio cualitativo que abordó las representaciones sociales sobre el impacto medioambiental en habitantes de la bahía de Quintero-Puchuncaví. Se realizaron dos grupos focales con trabajadores de una escuela e integrantes del movimiento de Comunidades por un Derecho a la Vida, aplicando un análisis de contenido que arrojó como principales resultados que en la zona primaría el desarrollo económico e industrial en perjuicio de los recursos naturales, la salud, la calidad de vida y los derechos humanos de los habitantes del sector. Existiendo además, la idea de una política de ocultamiento de la información y medidas asistencialistas que intentarían, de forma ineficaz, mitigar el daño provocado. Se reconoce una actitud desfavorable en ambos grupos hacia el impacto medioambiental generado por las empresas, pues consideran que esta problemática ha superado todo límite. Esto moviliza vías de acción a nivel microsocial, en el caso de profesores, y a nivel de localidad, en el caso del movimiento.
In the Bay of Quintero-Puchuncaví there is a tension between economic development, preservation of natural resources and quality of life. This research presents a qualitative study that aimed to answer the question: Which social representations do the residents of the Bay of Quintero-Puchuncaví have about the environmental impact in the area? In order to attempt this, two focus groups were performed. The first one was composed by school employees and the second one by members of the movement “Communities for the Right to Life”. Subsequently a content analysis was developed. This yielded as a main result that the Social Representation of these groups would be oriented by their own common sense, assuming as a part of it that in the area would prevail industrial economic development to the detriment of natural resources, health, quality of life and human rights of the inhabitants of the sector. It was also detected in these groups, the idea of an existing policy to conceal information from them, as well as welfarist measures that try ineffectively to mitigate the damage caused. Thus, it is recognized an unfavorable attitude in both groups to the environmental impact generated by industries, believing that this issue has exceeded all the limits. This mobilizes toward micro level actions in the case of teachers and local level actions in the case of the Movement.
