Abstract

Political ecology seeks to bring traditional concepts from Social Sciences such as justice, equality, equity, or distribution to have a correlate within the socio-ecological systems that inhabit humans. This article seeks to discuss how certain issues of political ecology will interweave in the constituent debate that Chile is about to have to develop a new political Constitution. Here, a discussion is structured, supported by a bibliographic review on how people’s conceptions of nature, the problems, and environmental injustices they experience are going to be essential for the development of this new Magna Carta. Likewise, the experiences of two local socio-environmental conflicts in San Pedro de la Paz (urban horticulturists) and Freirina (impact of agribusiness) together with the analysis of different surveys (National Environment Survey, the Instituto Nacional de Derechos Humanos environmental conflict’s map and Eurobarometer).