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This article examines collective actions led by peasant communities in the Paramillo Massif in Colombia. It juxtaposes these locally defi ned development proposals focused on maintaining the balance between society and the environment with dominant neoliberal development models implemented by the Colombian State that promote developmentalism and seemingly exacerbate armed confl ict in the country. The article frames this analysis within the context of political ecology, with the purpose of questioning the ideological bases for large-scale development that negatively impacts local communities both socially and environmentally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In manufacturing companies, mainly small and medium- size, the environmental management is characterized by the accomplishment of the environmental laws. However, new concepts such as proactive environmental management have been proposed. According to the theory of Vision Based on Natural Resources, the Proactive Environmental Management is a set of complex coordination of strategic resources, organizational capacities and environmental practices that lead to a better environmental performance and a better competitive advantage. These capacities are based on company strategic resources. This research paper aims at designing a model of information system as a strategic tool to facilitate and support information management as an organizational capacity: "stakeholders' management", which allows a company to perform proactive environmental practices to reach a sustainable competitive advantage. This model of information system was created based on some elements of the Directed Arquitectural Methodolgy by Models, mainly focusing on literary findings, the Vision Based on Natural Resources theory, and an analysis made by a diagnosis in 10 companies in Bogota city, Colombia. The research outcomes make us conclude that information management upon proactive environmental management in a company expands in a more transversal way than a vertical one through an information system and the primary and secondary activities in a company. Additionally, the results give a guidance to information management upon stakeholders' management moving towards a proactive environmental management in PymES belonging to the manufacturing sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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