Jose A Cortes-Vazquez- PhD Social Anthropology
- Senior Researcher at Universidade da Coruña
Jose A Cortes-Vazquez
- PhD Social Anthropology
- Senior Researcher at Universidade da Coruña
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Este número especial responde a la necesidad de preguntarse cómo se construyó la red de Áreas Protegidas (AP)[1] en los distintos territorios de España, tras la arquitectura del Estado de autonomías aprobado por la Constitución de 1978. Diversos factores condicionaron el desarrollo de las políticas de conservación en cada una de las comunidades aut...
Implementing management practices for the control of invasive species can be a complex task with multiple dimensions, where the identification of stakeholders and drivers of those practices is of paramount importance. The invasive hornet Vespa velutina has spread across Europe and Asia from its native range in SE Asia in recent years. A common cont...
In recent years, science has hardened the discourse on the emergency of global warming, pointing out that the next decades will be decisive to maintaining the stability of the climate system and, thus, avoiding a cascade effect of events that increase the average temperature above safe limits. The scientific community warns that there are different...
In this article, by drawing on empirical evidence from twelve case studies from nine countries from across the Global South and North, we ask how radical grassroots social innovations that are part of social movements and struggles can offer pathways for tackling socio-spatial and socio-environmental inequality and for reinventing the commons. We d...
In recent years, science has hardened the discourse on the emergency of global warming, pointing out that the next decades will be decisive to maintain the stability of the climate system, avoiding a cascade effect of events that increase the average temperature above safe limits. The scientific community warns that there are different tipping poin...
En este trabajo presentamos los resultados del III Taller de Naturalezas Híbridas, desarrollado en el mes de abril de 2021 en la Universidade Senior de A Coruña. Ante las vulnerabilidades sobrevenidas durante la pandemia de la COVID-19 y ante las restricciones y medidas de distanciamiento, tuvimos que reimaginar nuestra propuesta de innovación doce...
El cambio climático se ha convertido en una de las principales problemáticas a la que nos enfrentamos hoy y el eje sobre el que giran nuevas políticas, valores, intereses, horizontes y ansiedades. Aunque los estudios antropológicos del cambio climático se encuentran aún en ciernes, están generando una serie de replanteamientos y abriendo un conjunt...
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This paper aims to show how the Green Campus Program has been implemented at the Faculty of Sociology of the University of A Coruña (Spain). It describes the criteria used to create teaching sustainability actions related to community engagement to introduce education for sustainable development into college curricula.
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This paper aims to show how the Green Campus Program has been implemented at the Faculty of Sociology of the University of A Coruña (Spain). It describes the criteria used to create teaching sustainability actions related to community engagement to introduce education for sustainable development into college curricula.
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RESUMEN La actividad "II Taller de Naturalezas Híbridas. Los límites ecológicos de lo urbano", organizada por el Grupo de Innovación Docente ConCiencia Social y dirigida al alumnado de cuarto curso del Grado en Sociología, tuvo como objetivo ahondar en la práctica de formas de aprendizaje activo que permitan abordar fuera del aula problemas complej...
For several decades, tourism has been considered an important instrument for the sustainable development of rural areas. However, a great deal of scholarship has cast a doubt on the actual economic and ecological impacts of many of these initiatives. Acknowledging these critiques, we argue in this paper that a more accurate examination of the impli...
This introduction to the special collection explores how a revised or expanded understanding of ‘environmentality’ can further our analysis of the evermore complex terrain of environmental politics today. We offer an outline of the literature from which the discussion emerges and how the subsequent articles both engage with and depart from it. We d...
The global surge of right-wing populism and its impact on environmental policies are attracting the attention of political ecologists. However, little of this debate has reached the nature conservation literature. In this paper, I explore the emergence of populist logics in conservation as a result of the entrenchment of neoliberalism after the 200...
In order to increase survival probability of the most valuable threatened species and habitats, the European Community (EC) defined a series of strategies to improve management of sites within Natura 2000, the largest coordinated network of protected areas in the world, so that citizens become involved in their maintenance and new tools are impleme...
El “I Taller de Naturalezas Híbridas” tuvo como objetivo explorar nuevas formas de aprendizaje activo, interdisciplinar y colaborativo en el estudio de temas complejos para el alumnado. En esta edición nos centramos en las “naturalezas urbanas” como concepto y campo de estudio a partir del que problematizar los límites y fronteras de conocimiento d...
The Convention on Biological Diversity Aichi Target 11 requires its 193 signatory parties to incorporate social equity into protected area (PA) management by 2020. However, there is limited evidence of progress toward this commitment. We surveyed PA managers, staff, and community representatives involved in the management of 225 PAs worldwide to ga...
ParticiPat es un proyecto de investigación del Plan Nacional que tiene como objetivo analizar la participación y sus instrumentalizaciones en nueve estudios de caso sobre procesos de patrimonialización. A la hora de abordar el proyecto, quisimos cuestionar las jerarquías y lógicas raramente colaborativas que rodean la producción de conocimiento en...
The literature on environmentality analyses how local people living in natural protected areas might come to care about, act in relation to, and think of their own actions in terms of environmental protection by becoming actively involved in conservation government and management. In this paper we contribute to a clearer, broader, and more nuanced...
The literature on environmentality analyses how local people living in natural protected areas might come to care about, act in relation to, and think of their own actions in terms of environmental protection by becoming actively involved in conservation government and management. In this paper we contribute to a clearer, broader, and more nuanced...
La crisis económica y las políticas de austeridad adoptadas en la última década (2008-2018) han supuesto una importante transformación de los modelos predominantes en la gestión del patrimonio natural, un fenómeno que ha sido muy notorio en países del sur de Europa. En el Estado e-pañol, como en otros contextos, los fuertes recortes en personal y e...
La crisis económica y las políticas de austeridad de la última década han transformado la gestión del patrimonio natural. Mientras las administraciones públicas han aplicado recortes presupuestarios y de personal que limitan su acción, han surgido nuevas estrategias procedentes de la sociedad civil, como colectivos locales, grupos ecologistas y emp...
In 2017, the idea that floods are exceptional and temporary episodes is a conviction increasingly contradicted by their growing incidence and severity across the globe. Floods have lasting consequences for affected populations and such effects can be wide-ranging depending on local context. However, prevailing misconceptions remain concerning the n...
Aichi Target 11 (AT11), adopted by 193 Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in 2010, states that protected areas (PAs) must be equitably managed by 2020. However, significant challenges remain in terms of actual implementation of equitable management in PAs. These challenges include, among others, the lack of a standardized appro...
In the heritage field, institutions tend to see social participation as a synonym for good governance practice. This extends to other areas such as the environment, humanitarian aid, and sustainable development. In this article, the authors analyze the use of participatory models in the management of heritage through the study of three heritage sit...
The worldwide expansion of nature conservation initiatives has attracted a great deal of attention among political ecologists. Concerned about the effects on people and the environment, critical scholars have attempted to identify the drivers of conservation, and how power operates. Conservation policies, practices and conflicts have generated a la...
The critical analysis of conservation conflicts in Protected Areas (PAs) raises interesting questions about the redefinition of human-environment relations in the current ecological crisis. In recent years these debates have unveiled that, in the attempt to define the ‘proper’ place of humans in nature, PAs have embodied modern dualistic worldviews...
Las políticas de protección ambiental, en espacios protegidos, son habitualmente contestadas por las poblaciones locales. El conflicto entre los diferentes agentes que participan en estos procesos supone la activación de discursos de legitimación en los que la categoría “naturaleza” juega un papel central. En este artículo nos aproximaremos no sólo...
Resumen El proceso de patrimonialización ambiental llevado a cabo en el Parque Natural Cabo de Gata-Níjar (Almería) ha implicado tanto un conjunto de políticas de prohibición, limitación y/o control de determi-nadas actividades agrícolas, ganaderas, pesqueras y turísticas dentro del espacio protegido, como la promoción de un turismo de naturaleza,...
INTRODUCCIÓN El Parque Natural Cabo de Gata-Níjar, en la costa oriental de la Provincia de Almería, es hoy día uno de los espacios protegidos más emblemáticos de la política ambiental andaluza. De entre los rasgos que justifican la política de conservación adoptada desde su declaración, en 1987, se destaca el buen estado de conservación en el que s...
INTRODUCCIÓN A finales de los años cincuenta, Juan Goytisolo (1985) denunció el olvido y la marginalidad de las tierras almerienses. Sus palabras compusieron un revelador retrato de los Campos de Níjar como un lugar de miseria. Dibujó una comarca donde desigualdades sociales, aridez y polvo sepultaban a sus habitantes: gentes tristes, hechas a larg...
