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Over the last decades, both in Argentina and other Latin American countries, conflictivity has increased in relation to the access to, the availability, the appropriation and the management of natural resources. Diverse collective actions expressed in the public sphere open up questions around the alleged benefits of development. What are the territorial consequences of the different extractive activities in the medium and the long term? What social, economic or environmental impact do these activities have on local communities and their way of life?On certain occasions, the population chooses to ignore problems because they find it extremely difficult to find either strategies or resources of institutional or political power to take action in pursuit of certain changes. It is when social actors feel threatened in their very conception of life by risks they perceive as significant that they decide to organize themselves and protest against harm (HANNIGAN, 1995; LEZAMA, 2001). A certain environmental impact produced by an intervention on the territory trans -lates into an environmental problem when the population can apprehend its potential risk. The social and cultural context is important for the building of this knowledge that stimulates the organized action of the local community to resist externalities and their associated impacts. Environmental conflicts originate from oppositions between different groups in relation to the differentiated forms of appropriation, use and meanings of natural assets (SABATTINI, 1997; ALONSO and COSTA, 2002; FUKS, 2001; ACSELRAD, 2004). These oppositions give rise to the opening up of controversies on different events, to the emergence of different debates on future scenarios, and to a greater availability of options to face different problems. This is when spaces for the dramatization of the public problem are opened up (GUSFIELD, 1981: 5; BARTHELEMY, 1992) and questions arise in the public sphere. A key argument of this paper is that the different stances of the actors taking part in the environmental conflict open up a scenario and a temporality where arguments are built and exchanged over the legitimacy of certain decisions taken in relation to

ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICTS AND PUBLIC DELIBERATION ARENAS AROUND THE ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE IN ARGENTINA