Indigenous trees play key roles in West African landscapes, such as the ne´re´ tree (Parkia biglobosa (Jacq.) R.Br. ex G.Don). We applied social–ecological network analysis to understand the social–ecological interactions around ne´re´. We documented the benefits ne´re´ provides and the multiple social interactions it creates amongst a large range o...
Resumen: El Gobierno Abierto procura mejorar la provisión de servicios públicos con transparencia, rendición de cuentas y participación. Se analizan los Compromisos de Gobierno Abierto en educación en América Latina y el Caribe buscando establecer si atienden aspectos sustantivos o accesorios de las políticas educativas. Se construyó un corpus de 5...
This Policy Brief provides scientifically sound guidance for decision-makers to help promote social learning in policy instruments and to foster synergies and address trade-offs among the multiple objectives of sustainable land use systems
Este documento proporciona una guía científicamente sólida para que los tomadores de decisiones ayuden a promover el aprendizaje social en los instrumentos de políticas, fomenten las sinergias y encuentren equilibrios entre los múltiples objetivos de SSUT.
Citizen science, which allows the involvement of students and their teachers in authentic scientific initiatives that take place in real-world contexts, constitute a way of promoting science education with a STS/STSE orientation, by helping the student to understand science and scientific research practices and to apply them to solve real environme...
The article describes the implementation of the Citizen Council on euthanasia in children and adolescents in Colombia. An exploratory qualitative study using the participatory action research methodology was carried out. In the first phase, three panels were created with trainers, stakeholders and citizens, and two deliberative stages (formative an...
Introduction: Noncommunicable diseases are a public health issue that burdens health systems, economies, and society. These diseases can be prevented by using several methods, such as the social appropriation of knowledge, empowerment of communities, and improvement of their health indicators. This review seeks to describe the methodologies used in...
Inter-organisational collaboration plays an important role in the provision of services by the third sector. In this article we analyse the relationships among 21 third sector organisations in Andalusia. Through social network analysis we evaluate centrality, cohesion, influence and brokerage in different relationship structures among these organiz...
In this paper we explore how citizen science promotes epistemic improvement both in scientific institutions and in society at large. In this sense, we offer a characterization of citizen science and show how the participation of non-specialists can contribute to epistemic strengthening through plurality. Furthermore, we examine how the inclusion of...
The accreditation requirements require that universities comply with the alignment towards the social responsibility approach, so they make their best efforts to comply with its standards. The objective of this research was to analyze the perception that teachers and authorities of the Faculty of Sociology of the National University of the Center o...
