This research examines beneficiaries' perception of linkage projects developed by the Catholic University of Cuenca focused on the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE), specifically in Zone 6 of Ecuador. In the first instance, descriptive research on the social and solidarity economy at the international and national levels was conducted, and the in...
The Social and Solidarity Economy (ESS in Spanish) encompasses a wide range of associative practices that seek to reproduce life in an organized, solidarity-based manner and with non-authoritarian work processes. Cooperativism is one of the longest-lived, most widespread, and richest expressions of ESS, but it is also complicated to situate within ...
The article presents preliminary reflections on the transformations of the National Institute of Associativism and Social Economy (INAES), the authority for the application of cooperative and mutual laws, which since December 2019 has proposed to expand its policy subject with the strategic objective of achieving centrality of the social and solida...
L’Économie Sociale et Solidaire (ESS) regroupe des activités économiques plurielles d’utilité sociale. D’après la loi du 31 juillet 2014, une activité relève de l’ESS si elle remplit au moins un de ces objectifs : soutien aux personnes en situation de fragilité, lutte contre les inégalités, contribution au développement durable. L’ESS se caractéris...
This paper discusses one of the social relations of Polanyi's coordination mode analysis triad: land (natural resources); concentrating the reflection on a theoretical - and qualitative - plane on renewable energies, considered the energy matrix of the future. We present a narrative that exhibits an interstitial trajectory around that matrix. Altho...
Notre analyse des Pôles Territoriaux de Coopération Economique (PTCE) – approchés comme des actions collectives multi-partenariales territorialisées et questionnés au regard du mode de développement durable dont ils sont, ou devraient être porteurs - s’inscrit dans la tradition de pensée et d’action de l’Economie Sociale et Solidaire (ESS), à l’int...
The consumption of natural resources by modern societies, the environmental and social impacts that are associated with it, and the possible pathways to reach more sustainable patterns of consumption, constitute a significant field of study in environmental, economic, and social sciences. With the majority of scientific researches approaching susta...
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