Enviromental Management

As is now universally known, the environment is undergoing a series of simultaneous crises (climatic, urban, agricultural, forestry and epidemiological) that have seriously affected the fabric of life as we have known it for hundreds of years.
From the mid-1960s onwards, concern arose in developed countries about the irreparable damage to the environment caused by "industrial development". The concept of development was also affected. The conceptual solution was the emergence of sustainable development. Through this concept, the aim is to ensure an improvement in social conditions and also in the ecosystem, which is the source of any economy. However, according to the results of climate summits and studies by governmental and non-governmental environmental protection organizations, this objective has not been achieved and deterioration is increasing.
In summary, in the face of the environmental crisis that evidently threatens humanity -almost in its entirety- we carried out works related to its causes and effects, addressing issues such as toxic waste management, sustainable development instruments, alternative energy production (e.g., solar or eolic), the nuclear crisis in Japan, and environmental pollution in the Riachuelo-Matanza basin.
We agree with Foster (2000), who postulates that the very social relations of capitalist production lead to environmental deterioration. In fact, the purpose of capitalist production is profit, and environmental damage implies greater profit due to lower production costs. Within the reduction of costs is the overexploitation of nature or the use of public spaces as private garbage dumps. Profit is also increased if capital turnover is increased, and for this to happen it is necessary for products to have a short useful life. Thus, the production of more and more objects that are less and less useful in terms of durability, even though they may be useful in immediate functions, increases the consumption of natural resources and garbage.

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