De las estaciones meteorológicas, los satélites y las boyas oceánicas a la actividad agropecuaria: la red de generación y diseminación de información climática para la región pampeana (Argentina)

Alejandra  Celis; Pablo Forni

doi:10.48160/18517072re28.255

Authors

Alejandra Celis Centro de Estudios Sociales y Ambientales
Pablo Forni IDICSO, CONICET

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48160/18517072re28.255

Keywords:

Actor-network, Seasonal climate forecasts, Weather stations, Translation

Abstract

During the last 15 years, technological innovations and advances in the research of the oceans and the atmosphere have aloud the development of seasonal climate forecasts. In Argentina, as a result of the decadence of the national meteorological information network due to the privatisation policies during the 90´s as well as the availability of measurement tools (satellites, weather stations) and new predictive tools (models) conform the scenario in which old and new organizations and experts try to find a place in the emergent climatic information network. The process’s dynamics, its lack of transparency and competence between organizations make it difficult to elucidate neither “who is who” in this network nor its dimensions. First, we should distinguish a group of organizations that generate climate information, based on the data, from those who transform and or disseminate the information in different formats and through a variety of channels. In between these organizations, we find competence, collaboration and legitimation relationships. The conceptual framing is based in the actor-network perspective and the methodological strategy is qualitative, based in interviews and documental analyses.

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