José Aylwin's scientific contributions

... However, different levels of colonization have changed this relationship between communities and forest resources, leading to the decline of some communities' well-being. To illustrate this, in Chile, notwithstanding the ancestral presence of Indigenous peoples with their own governance systems, the Spanish colonizers, first and then the Chilean creoles, declared the region vacant and ownerless (CEPAL 2012;Mariqueo 2012;Calbucura 2013;Farias and Vergara 2013;Olea 2013;Akhtar 2013;Di Giminiani 2015;von der Mühlen et al. 2020), which is equivalent to the concept of terra nullius (Barsh 1986;Hill 1995;Miller 2005;WRM 2005;Haig-Brown 2012;Lightfoot 2016;Mcfarlane and Schabus 2017;Grunow et al. 2019). The territory was declared state property at the end of the nineteenth century and then assigned to extractive activities based on this legitimacy (Veuthey and Gerber 2010). ...

... Within the forms of renewable energy, hydroelectricity is considered key and aims to attain a share of 20-25% by 2030 [3]. However, the emergence of social conflict as a result of opposition to infrastructure projects for these energy sources, especially among local communities, has slowed down or even stopped this process [4][5][6][7]. It is in this context that, in recent years, increasing attention has been paid to the social dimension of developing renewable energy projects in order to identify and understand the main factors that condition the level of acceptance by local communities [4,8,9]. ...