Jaime Garrido

• University of La Frontera

Air pollution has been linked to various health problems in children, including respiratory and neurological issues. Existing research has also found that exposure to air pollution can affect children's cognitive ability and academic performance, with some studies showing a decrease in test scores and grade point averages associated with increased...

Air pollution stands as a primary environmental factor influencing mortality globally. Despite its significance, individuals frequently struggle to assess the risks associated with polluted environments. This paper delves into the psychological mechanisms that contribute to the discrepancy between public perception of air quality and objective meas...

El libro que presentamos recopila reflexiones, estudios, experiencias y propuestas originadas a partir de la creación de un espacio de trabajo interdisciplinario, intersectorial e interfacultades en la Universidad de La Frontera. Este espacio permitió la convergencia de diversos académicos, académicas y profesionales comprometidos moralmente con el...

The design of air pollution control policies is a complex decision-making process. Public participation can enhance the legitimacy and effectiveness of environmental urban regulations but does not always occur naturally. This article presents the experience of the use of role-playing in six mid-sized cities in southern Chile to evaluate how residen...

In recent decades, several Latin American cities have implemented policy instruments to reduce urban air pollution and traffic congestion such as license plate–based restrictions on car use. Our research analyzes the factors influencing the public acceptance of these urban policies in four cities: Bogotá, Mexico City, Santiago de Chile, and Quito....

Se analiza la construcción, por parte de inmigrantes internacionales, de redes sociales en el país de destino, y las características de estas redes según el país de origen. Se estudia el caso de tres colectivos residentes en Chile, utilizando metodología cualitativa basada en entrevistas semiestructuradas, que se analizan mediante análisis narrativ...

The article aims to highlight the importance of configuring what Chilean and Latin American institutions build as socio-environmental risks. Through a review of the semantics and narratives of risk, we reveal that the constructs that these ins- titutions formulate through their stories and actions in different contexts play a key role. This role is...

Wood smoke pollution has emerged as a major public health issue in southern Chile. This paper endeavors to find evidence of environmental inequity by looking into the spatial associations between sociodemographic characteristics, exposures, and risk perception to air pollution. We integrate primary georeferenced survey data with estimates of excess...

The paper intends to contribute to understanding the factors leading to the decision to migrate and choose Chile as a destination. Techniques of dialogic inquiry have been used to analyze three groups of migrants (Colombians, Venezuelans, and Spaniards) residing in the Los Lagos Region. The sociological discourse analysis has been used to process t...

Cities in southern Chile face serious environmental pollution due to extensive use of firewood for heating and cooking. Lack of access to cleaner energy fuel, low-efficiency building materials, and a cold climate exacerbate the problem, which increases the deforestation of the native forests of Patagonia. While environmental justice research has es...

Wood-burning pollution is a severe problem in southern Chile, where every winter, people are exposed to unhealthy ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentrations. Urban air quality is a major concern for health officials, but public awareness campaigns tend to focus on outdoor hazards. Our understanding of how residents are exposed and perce...

Several cities in southern Chile are immersed in energy transition processes due to the severe air pollution that the massive use of firewood for domestic heating and cooking has generated. Semi-structured interviews and news analysis of local newspapers were combined to explore the narratives of residents of Temuco and Padre Las Casas, two of the...

In southern Chile, epidemiological studies have linked high levels of air pollution produced by the use of wood-burning stoves with the incidence of numerous diseases. Using a quasi-experimental design, this study explores the potential of participatory sensing strategies to transform experiences, perceptions, attitudes, and daily routine activitie...

Various medium-sized cities in southern Chile are saturated by air pollution caused by woodsmoke. In this study, we developed a segmentation model to assess the public’s perceptions, understanding of health risks and emotional responses to poor air quality. To date, this is the first segmentation model dealing with public perception in cities conta...

The objective of the article is to identify and to make visible the risk narratives that are constructed in the Chilean Patagonia. This paper aims to strain current models of risk policies in Chile, which conceive risks in an objective and homogeneous manner, privileging technical rationalities that subordinate contextual differences. The study des...

This article analyzes the communication strategies in the conflicts surrounding the Castilla and HidroAysén projects in Chile. Within this framework, descriptive exploratory research, with an integrated design was performed. The findings revealed simple communication formats that affect the management of the conflict, trust and the development visi...

This study analyzes the role of the affect heuristic, risk perceptions, and air quality and sociodemographic factors in the support for policies to control urban air pollution. The sample includes 489 participants residing in Temuco and Padre Las Casas, suburban areas located in southern Chile, affected by the smoke that wood-burning stoves and coo...

Este documento describe las características del modelo de gestión neoliberal del agua existente en Chile desde los años ochenta, y su relación con el surgimiento de diversos conflictos por agua a lo largo del país durante la última década. Se propone una tipología de conflictos y se describen los nudos centrales en torno a los cuales ellos se organ...

The article's objective is a critical reflection upon the capacity of the models of risk communication in the intervention of socioenvironmental conflicts. The research was of an exploratory nature and took as case studies two important conflict based on energy development in Chile: the thermoelectrica Castilla and hydroelectric Hidroaysén. It was...

El presente artículo constituye una aproximación teórico-conceptual a la construcción y percepción social de riesgos socioambientales. La tematización y problematización se aborda desde la particular perspectiva de la teoría de los sistemas sociales y la sociedad del riesgo, evidenciando la complejidad y fragmentación social que ha alcanzado la soc...

Los riesgos ambientales relacionados con proyectos termoelectricos en Chile se han expandido y complejizado en los ultimos anos, lo cual ha generado conflictos sociales y ha minado la capacidad privada e institucional para prevenirlos, administrarlos y resolverlos. La confianza, entendida como una disposicion configurativa de relaciones sociales, a...

El estudio investiga las respuestas de la comunidad local al proyecto Parque Eolico Chiloe (PECh) que pretende instalarse en la zona de Mar Brava, comuna de Ancud, Chile. Al igual que en muchos otros casos de conflictos sociales por la instalacion de parques eolicos alrededor del mundo, en este estudio de caso nos encontramos en presencia de una op...

 Dado el contexto social y organizacional de los conflictos producidos por la salmonicultura en la región de Los Lagos (Chile), este artículo pretende aportar a la implementación de un nuevo modelo de gestión para la salmonicultura 2.0 desde la gobernanza ambiental. En función de la observación de la puesta en práctica de la denominada industria 2...

El grito “que se vayan todos” que emerge en la Argentina al despertar el siglo XXI y que recorre buena parte de Amrica Latina, se escucha fuertemente en Chile una dcada despus. Si bien, el descredito por la práctica política era ya una constante de hace años, las movilizaciones sociales del 2011 terminan de correr el velo. Nunca como ahora los nive...