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Este artículo pretende implementar un proceso de concienciación, empoderamiento y compromiso ciudadano. Se identifica el caso objeto de atención, un barrio costero de la ciudad de Comodoro-Rivadavia (Argentina) afectado por un problema de contaminación en el que se interviene con un programa de voluntariado universitario. Se realiza un estudio de caso a través de una estrategia de investigación-acción; la muestra la constituyen voluntarios universitarios, vecinos y responsables institucionales; los instrumentos de obtención de datos son de corte esencialmente cualitativo. Los resultados muestran que la acción educativa llevada a cabo consigue movilizar a la comunidad vecinal, haciéndole tomar conciencia del problema y generando en ella un empoderamiento que conduce a diferentes acciones que van desde la denuncia y la confrontación hasta la recreación de lazos comunitarios. En el programa la justicia social y la justicia ambiental tienden puentes que permiten pensar el futuro desde la toma de conciencia ciudadana de las condiciones de contaminación de su territorio, las causas y consecuencias ligadas a aspectos en los que lo político se entrecruza con los intereses económicos y la supervivencia en condiciones extremas de explotación de recursos naturales.Descriptores: Justicia social; Voluntariado; Contaminación; Sensibilización ambiental; Autonomización.This article aims to implement a process of citizen awareness, empowerment and commitment. The case is identified: a coastal area of the city of Comodoro-Rivadavia (Argentina) affected by a problem of pollution in which a university volunteer program is involved. A case study through an action-research strategy is used; the sample is constituted by university volunteers, neighbours and institutional leaders; the instruments of obtaining data are essentially qualitative. The results show that the educational action carried out can mobilize the neighbourhood community, making them aware of the problems and generating in it an empowerment that leads to different actions ranging from denunciation and confrontation to the recreation of community ties. In the program, social justice and environmental justice have bridges that allow us to think about the future from the citizen's awareness of the pollution conditions of its territory, the causes and consequences linked to aspects in which the political intersects with economic interests and survival in extreme conditions of exploitation of natural resources.

The Argentine Coastal Zone is a fluvio-maritime continuum of great climatic and biogeographic diversity that extends from the northern end of the Río de la Plata basin to the southern extreme of the Patagonian coast. This paper analyzes the changes related to coastal management in the period 2009-2019 in public policies, regulations, competencies, responsibilities, institutions, instruments, training, capacity building, financial resources, scientific knowledge, environmental information and education, and citizen participation. Among the most significant advances are the determination of the limits of the continental shelf, the more precise regulation in the reformed Civil and Commercial Code, the formulation of a Federal Coastal Management Strategy and several sectoral strategies, the creation of the first marine protected area, the increase of the postgraduate courses related to coastal management, and the expansion of the environmental contents to all levels of the education system. On the other hand, it is worth noting the scarcity of financial resources for institutional strengthening, the low incidence of citizen participation and the persistence of interjurisdictional competition conflicts. It is concluded that the sectoral model of coastal management has consolidated, with a tendency to migrate from a centralized management at the national level to a federal system with greater decision capacity for the provinces.