Abstract

MORENO, Itatí del Rosario. Grassroots Organizations and Environmental Injustice: The Importance of Strategic Allies for Incidence on Public Policy. The Case of the Metropolitan Region of Buenos Aires Waste Management Policy. Gest. polít. pública [online]. 2020, vol.29, n.1, pp.131-162.  Epub Sep 11, 2020. ISSN 1405-1079.  https://doi.org/10.29265/gypp.v29i1.659.

This article aims to answer the following question: why do grassroots organizations (GROS) have different incidence on public policies in spite of claiming for the same environmental justice problem? This inquiry arises concerning four cases with varied incidence on waste policies carried out by GROS that demand the closure of sanitary landfills in the same territory, the Metropolitan Region of Buenos Aires. The data collection techniques were in-depth interviews, documentary analysis and media analysis. The results highlight the incidence variation depends on the types of strategic alliances that GROS have in each case. The main contribution of this work is to deepen on the study of the grassroots organizations and its effects on public policies.

Keywords : civil society; non-state actors; public policy; environmental policy; waste management; sanitary landfills.

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