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The mobility restrictions characteristic of the pandemic period interrupted tourism mobilities and forced territorial actors, and specifically those connected with tourism, to adapt and rethink their tools, processes and even the ways in which they communicated. Moreover, this context placed them in front of unusual situations that they had to manage, such as the increase in the flows of local and regional visitors in outdoors and natural areas. Based on a qualitative methodology built on the analysis of documents and in-depth interviews with key informants, this paper reflects on the responses and on the perception of different actors in periods of change, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis of this context in terms of opportunity and in terms of challenge in the case of a rural and inland territory in the southwest of France leads us to the conclusion that crises are scenarios that favor learning processes. The challenge lies in giving continuity to the lessons learned. This study contributes to the reflection of tourism development models consistent with the socio-ecological transition. Tourism development models that promote adequate tourism under the paradigm of degrowth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Mexico, during the 2012-2018 six-year term, the National Crusade against Hunger (CNCH) was implemented, in which social participation played a central role in combating the lack of access to food and promoting social welfare. With the creation of Community Committees and the support from promoter staff, this strategy aimed to strengthen and ensure the active and constant involvement of the population; however, there were a number of factors that had an impact on the difficulties in achieving sustained community participation. The objective of this paper is to show the factors that limited social participation in the implementation of the CNCH in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, through the voices of the implementing staff. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Large Technological System (LTS) is a central concept in the epistemologies of Action-Network Theories (ant), related with poststructuralist epistemologies, and an important tool for the analysis of territorial systems. In this paper, we will use the lts concept to examine the hydrologic system of the Metropolitan Area of Bogotá, making emphasis on three aspects: the natural structure, the technological complex, and the normative framework. The goal was to explore the metropolitan geopolitics of water use in La Sabana de Bogotá and the particularities in the water governance, highlighting the incidence of municipalism and the interaction of a wide group of private, governmental, and civic actors. It was examined the physical infrastructure provided by the Empresa de Acueducto y Alcantarillado de Bogotá (eab-esp) that works as a quasi-monopoly actor in water management as well as their interaction with the highly autonomous municipalities. Other actors such as the real estate, floriculture, mining, and dairy activities was included in the analysis. The report gives special attention to the highly complex relationships between them and how they work in a complex and multiscale normative framework. The text concludes emphasizing the different challenges of water governance in a context of rapid metropolisation, complexing economic relations and climate and environmental change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Public green spaces (PGS) on the shores of the Limay River in Neuquen Metropolitan Area (AMN, for its acronym in Spanish) can represent tools for water management. For the design of such instruments, it is important to know the local dynamics of hydrometeorological threats. The aim of this paper is to analyze, from a historical perspective based on the digital written press, the occurrence of events related to hydrometeorological threats in the AMN and, most precisely, around the PGS located on the coast of the Limay River for the period 1999-2020. 131 journalistic articles were surveyed and the information collected was validated through hydrometeorological databases. The methodology classifies events according to origin and nature, as well as characterizing them according to their physical characteristics; consequent damages in urban, periurban and rural areas; actors from different jurisdictions and adopted actions. Before and during the events soft measures prevailed while hard measures prevailed after them. Specifically, the consequences in EVP result in hindrances for its exploitation by users. Historical records provide initial, useful and comprehensive information for the analysis of the incidence of water processes in cities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper exposes and analyzes some results of the research "Territorial Governance in Brazil: institutional specificities, spatial logics and development policies", guided by the following question: do governance structures reinforce institutional inertia or, on the contrary, are they signs of political modernization? Assuming that the basic function of structures is cooperation, the hypothesis can be expressed by following statement: institutional inertia and tendency to stability present in relations between actors hinder cooperation and participation by legitimizing relatively inadequate behaviors in search for sustainable territorial development. However, cooperation difficulties may also indicate a process of political modernization. The data analysis and development of hypothesis were made through a simplified reality model, the game, formed by the interactions between actors and institutions. Changes in institutional legitimacy modify actors' behavior and can be described as a process of political modernization. However, data collected indicate that cooperation and participation are truncated within the structures during the period studied (2002-2014), suggesting that their functioning can be characterized more by institutional inertia and less by political modernization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The decline of carbon intensive technologies is a key element in the ongoing energy transition and our attempts to tackle climate change. At the same time, our understanding of technology decline and of the associated policies and politics is still limited. This paper builds on the sustainability transitions perspective, a novel approach to analyze socio‐technical transformation, including the complex interplay of policy and technology change. We study the decline of coal‐fired power generation in the United Kingdom from 2000 to 2017 by analyzing the discourse in The Guardian. We find scientists and environmental NGOs criticizing coal for climate and health reasons. Government and incumbent businesses tried to re‐legitimate coal but eventually, their resistance collapsed and coal was almost completely abandoned in just a few years. Particularly devastating for coal were failed promises around carbon capture and storage, rapid diffusion of wind energy, and pressure from various policies. This study contributes to better understanding the contested nature of decline, and the interplay of discursive struggles, technology change, and public policy in sustainability transitions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dom Feliciano is a Brazilian municipality located in the south-central region of Rio Grande do Sul State; around 90% of its population are polish descent and due its population and socioeconomic structure, it is a rural territory whose agriculture activities, like tobacco, contribute significantly to the municipality GNP (gross domestic product). In the year 2000, the local reality manifested complex through its socioeconomic indicators. At this juncture, the genesis of a social process starts to constitute on the basis of a municipal participating planning exercise made by articulators of Emater/RS, in 2001. The present paper, through a qualitative methodology and ethnographic investigation tools, supported in the actor's perspective as theoretical-analytical referential, aims to analyze the generation of knowledge and the social innovations construction of the family farming in Dom Feliciano, during the last two decades of the XXI Century. It was documented the construction of social devices in the form of the Municipal Council for Rural Development and the Municipal Plan for Rural Development; As well as innovations where the participation of diverse actors and community associations promoted the creation of social capital and organization actions, like the Cooperativa Agropecuaria Centro Sul (Coopacs), which articulates and materializes the demands and necessities of the community around the own view of local development and with the actors autonomy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to address the issue of territorial transformation simultaneously trying to account for the materiality of the territory and the social relations, we intend to test in a case study a methodological framework that articulates two analytical approaches from different disciplines. The first one is the intentional drawing of the territory as a means of interpretation and generation of new knowledge; and the second one is the analysis of the actors involved in the process of territorial transformation, understood as a process of actions and decisions. The paper presents the case of neighbourhood Sumay Pacha, on the peripheries of the cities of Tilcara and Maimará in the Province of Jujuy (Argentina), from which we discuss conceptual and methodological issues related to the analytical framework used. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper introduces some of the main elements that configure a paradigm shift in Communication, with the aim of providing a reflection on the ever-changing nature of both the World and our discipline. This is the time for publics and audiences; they embody the message's sense and its raison d'être. The present paper collects the results of two different research studies conducted at different times and with diverse actors and audiences, applying the eclectic method. Some of these findings are as follows: communication has changed due to the appearance of new screens (media) and new actors, who have now become "citizen celebrities". The Twenty First Century has arrived, bringing with it changes to our old paradigms. The new subjects act and live together in cyberspace; they select their own media and develop their own content. Reality is not really virtual, but it is enriched by these new screens (new media). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Actors within the soil management sub-system, their logic, interests and controversial relations in the process of urban transformation and current use pattern formation of the Luján river lower basin during the last ten years were identified within the conceptual framework of public policies. These interest groups' discourse and arguments have an impact on agenda creation, which is understood as the process of interest aggregation reflecting both the order of priority of social problems and the government's opinion of the situation. This paper analyzes written and oral texts and traces the various actors within this area of study as factors contributing to explain the reasons why certain topics are adopted as public problems and added to the government's agenda. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The results obtained from the work carried out for thirteen years are shown in this paper where professors and students have been linked to local institutions and the population in the process of research, training and university extension, to solve, in a trans disciplinary way, the most relevant problems in Cerro municipality. The results obtained during 13 years of work are shown in this community. During this period a vast number of teachers and students have been researching, and engaged in their formation and extracurricular processes with the local authorities, inhabitants, integral neighborhood workshops, municipal planning, local museums and culture authorities among other participants in order to solve the more crucial problems of Cerro community from a transdisciplinary point of view. The use of different methodologies in the designing process and the experiences in the workshops has been assessed to develop values on main participants and others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]