Bioregionalism as a new development paradigm. Silvana María CAPPUCCIO

• Silvana María Cappuccio
  Architect, Specialist and Master’s candidate in Metropolitan Environmental Management (UBA).
  silvanacappuccio@gmail.com / gam@fadu.uba.ar, Tel./fax: (+ 54 11) 4555 3838
  Work address:
  Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo, Pabellón III, 4to piso,
  Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Phone: (+ 54 11) 4789 6275/35.
  Member of the TAG Team, Lugar Innova, UNLP, Av. 7 nº 776 -1900 La Plata, Argentina.

INTRODUCTION

The reasoning that proposed the magical triad of growth, progress and development through the 20th century have been gradually losing ground when confronted to phenomena associated to the expansion of the western model, such as the increase in risks and inequalities between countries and regions, or the tremendous transformation of a considerable percentage of global ecosystems, that characterizes the current worldwide ecological crisis. This, together with market hegemony, the intensification of economic globalization and the influence of transnational companies over national territories, have been eroding the notion of governance, based until today on the political concept of sovereignty.