In this study, we present a critical account of the enforcement of the Forest Law in the Province of Salta, Argentina. We discuss whether the objectives of this law were accomplished and we analyze the role that some technical tools, coupled with specific theoretical approaches, could play in its future enforcement. We illustrate our analysis with data from a case study in the Chaco region of this Province. We identified, mapped and analyzed land claims by indigenous communities and small-scale agricultural producers, and large-scale land acquisitions, and we discuss how these two variables could be used to improve the technical accuracy and the social legitimacy of the zoning map required by the Forest Law. We conclude that a balanced combination of land-change science methods and political ecology can be useful to improve the fairness of decision-making processes and the sustainability of social-environmental governance in agricultural frontiers.

在这项研究中，我们对阿根廷萨尔塔省执行森林法提出了重要的说明。我们讨论了该法律的目标是否实现，并分析了某些技术工具以及特定的理论方法在未来执行中可以发挥的作用。我们使用来自该省Chaco地区的案例研究的数据说明了我们的分析。我们确定，映射和分析了土著社区和小规模农业生产者以及大规模土地征用的土地主张，并且我们讨论了如何使用这两个变量来提高技术准确性和区域规划要求的分区图的社会合法性森林法。