“Radical communication: depatriarchalizing, decolonizing and greening media culture” (Editorial Gedisa, 2022) is the most recent book by Susana de Andrés del Campo and Manuel Chaparro Escudero. The work invites us to rethink/regenerate the current communication model and its role in the eco-social transformation that we need. Concepts such as decol...
Tandis que l’exposition universelle de Dubaï qui s’est achevée fin mars dernier a remporté un succès manifeste, la candidature française Paris 2025 a été un échec. Un premier bilan économique, touristique, culturel et urbanistique de la méga-manifestation émiratie permet d’étudier les enjeux et les stratégies payantes afin d’identifier les erreurs ...
El co-diseño de sistemas agroforestales (SAF) implica entender la estructura y función de los sistemas, no solo a nivel productivo, sino también a nivel ecosistémico y cultural. Lo anterior, porque las decisiones que toman los agricultores, sobre cómo arreglar espacialmente los sistemas productivos, responden a motivaciones productivas y no product...
In this article, the author, Patrice Ballester, who is Associate Professor in Geography and Marketing of Tourism presents the innovative “Complementarity Matrix of 7 Responsibilities of a Company”. The author r The author recognizes the compelling need for the development and implementation of an entirely new diagnostic CSR focused matrix for firms...
In this study, four new species of Onosma subsect. Asterotricha from Northwest, West and North of Iran are described and illustrated. An extensive review of literature and a comparative study with specimens from several herbaria lead to determine these new species. Our argument for mentioned innovations is the significant divergence in the most imp...
The social meanings associated with the notions of illness and pain have usually been recognized as out-of-body experiences, they are identified as intrusive or as something to be avoided, healed or cured. This perspective has grown due to “the culture of happiness” that has grown increasingly stronger and which has prevented the terrestrial nature...
There are no studies in the region of the coffee landscape at detailed scales that can offer criteria and empirical inputs for agrarian policy decision-making. This research strengthens the GTP method (Geosystem, Territory, and Landscape), going beyond the traditional “geosystem”, as it proves its ability to descend to the scales of “geofacies” and...
Soil degradation is a process resulting from the management adopted by the industrial agriculture, that configures an ecological and social crisis. In this context, agroecology as a movement, science, and practice, values diversification of food production respecting the edaphoclimatic conditions of the ecosystems. The agroecological practices dema...
In the present article, and from theanalysis of some of the main theoreticalelements that characterize them, thehypothesis of the possible convergencebetween the critical hermeneutics ofGianni Vattimo and the Object-OrientedOntology, substantially representedby Graham Harman, two currents ofconsiderable strength in contemporaryphilosophy, is put fo...
The author essayically discusses the futility of the figure of the Previous Consultation, as expressed in the Ecuadorian and Boli-vian Magna Cartas, as long as it does not produce a legal obligation on the State. It is argued that the previous consultation does nothing more than generate a “calli-graphic” reference, that is, not a real po-litical f...
