Coalitions and conflicts around socioenvironmental issues: towards integrated and integrative visions. The case of the Guadalquivir estuary

Abstract

Among the territorial development dynamics, large infrastructure projects tend to generate the greatest environmental conflicts. In particular, the conflict generated around the deepening dredging of the Guadalquivir estuary, a project aimed at improving the navigability and access to the port of Seville, will be analysed here: the analysis of the dynamics of the conflict and the different discursive positions of the actors involved will highlight the importance of integrating, in the processes of decision and management of the territory, integrative perspectives from the different territorial scales. The approach of this research finds its theoretical and methodological bases on the Social Production and Management of Habitat, resorting to the application of a methodology with a predominantly qualitative approach.