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This article draws on interview data and insights from environmental studies and somatic therapy to argue for the significance of thinking ‘with rivers’ in order to reaffirm human and nonhuman entanglements in the current challenges presented by anthropogenic devastation. River microbial communities are unintelligible and complex entities due to their unclear origin and continuous flow downstream. The account of one environmental scientist is presented to consider how the metaphors of movement used in the riverine context assist in exploring the complicated dynamics of fluid communities facing constantly changing environments I call ‘microbial rivers’. A pollution incident affecting a UK river, where microbial communities responded by growing in number and activity, further illustrates the intersection of communities and ecosystems in their adaptation to troubling human interventions. Engaging with somatic understandings of trauma, this article proposes thinking with flow as a possibility to reimagine the capacity for renewal when experiencing debilitating adversities, thus countering apocalyptic responses of immobility in the face of environmental destruction and inviting novel opportunities for growth for human and nonhuman communities.

تشکل لحظة انتشار الأوبئة، مثل فيروس کورونا المستجد بيئة خصبة لتصاعد التفکير التآمري، ربما أکثر حدة مقارنة بأوقات الأزمات والتغيرات التاريخية الکبرى وذلک لأن خطر البقاء يصبح أکثر ضغطا على ذهنيات الأفراد والجماعات وحتى الحکومات بما قد يدفعهم للميل إلى تبني أفکار وتصورات وربط الأحداث والقفز إلى النتائج دون فحص کاف للمقدمات. وتزداد فرص ذلک الانتشار في وجود حواضن للمؤامرة ، کالتضليل المعلوماتي، والاتهامات المتبادلة بين الدول حول المسؤولية عن نشر الفيروس، بخلاف الصراع العالمي الذي يؤسس له مناصرو العالمية حول المؤامرة الکبرى لکيانات لها مصالح حول العالم قد تکون متورطة في المؤامرة، وفي مقابل تلک التفسيرات تظهر العقلية العلمية التي ترتکن على الدراسات والدلائل العلمية، بل وتتنبأ بالأحداث المستقبلية في ظل معطيات محددة والتي أشارتإلى أن تدمير النظم الأيکولوجية يعزز فرص انتشار الفيروسات من الحيوانات إلى البشر، خاصة أنها قد لا تجد عوائل في البيئة التي تظهر فيها، کما أن استمرار ذلک التدمير البيئي قد يدفع إلى ظهور جوائح أشد شراسة بسبب فيض عدوى الجراثيم وانبثاقاتها، وبالتالي فهذه المقالة هي استجابة لخطر وباء COVID-19 الأخير حيث تؤکد علىالدور الذي يمکن أن تلعبه مناهج العلوم الاجتماعية في تقييم أسباب المخاطر والاتجاهات المختلفة في تفسيرها من خلال المقاربات العقلانية rational approaches في فهم الظاهرة، وتجنب المقاربات التآمرية. کلمات مفتاحية: کوفيد-19، النظرية التآمرية، الحرب البيولوجية، الجغرافيا الاقتصادية، النظرية الإيکولوجية، نظرية المختبر. Abstract: The moment of pandemics outbreak like new corona virus represents a rich environment for the escalation of the conspiratorial thinking. It may be more intensive compared with the times of crises and great historical changes, because the danger of existence has become more stressing on the mentality of individuals, groups, and even governments. This may urge them to be inclined to adopt ideas and perceptions, link incidents, and decide upon results without fully investigating the introductions. The opportunities for that spread increase in the presence of conspiracy incubators, such as information misinformation, and mutual accusations between countries about responsibility for spreading the virus, unlike the global conflict that global advocates are establishing about the major conspiracy of entities with interests around the world that may be involved in the conspiracy, and in contrast to these explanations the mentality appears Scientific studies that rely on scientific studies and evidence, and even predict future events in light of specific data, which indicated that the destruction of ecosystems enhances the chances of viruses spreading from animals to humans, especially since they may not find hosts in the environment in which they appear, and the continuation of that environmental destruction may It pushes to the emergence of more fierce pandemics due to the abundance of germs infection and their emergence, and therefore this article is a response to the threat of the recent COVID-19 epidemic, where it emphasizes the role that social science approaches can play in assessing the causes of risks and different trends in their interpretation through rational approaches in understanding the phenomenon Avoid conspiratorial approaches.

Evidently, a globalized society causes global environmental crises. Undoubtedly, survival of human life on the planet Earth is threatened. Is there any connection between globalization, environmental crises and psychological manifestations? What are the psychological perspectives linking the ecological damages from local to the global scale? This article explores such intricate relationships and discusses the implications. The underlying principal cause is human’s unending greed to acquire maximum materials and power to control the planet and entire humanity. The greed is believed to be a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. The greedy people are supposed to have biological, psychological and sociological drives. Evidently, global destruction of the ecosystems and natural environment are directly or indirectly linked to unprecedented chronic human greed and self-indulgence. Undoubtedly, unencumbered chronic greed of a few elite institutions led by top capitalists has put the entire planet in havoc and infiltrated widespread sufferings at the global scale. Conclusively, psychological basis of environmental problems has a sociological and socio-historical scope within the frame of globalization. Psychological account of the environmental crisis is explained subsequently in this article followed by a case study of deforestation of Carpathian Mountains staged by a greedy Austrian man.

The wave of insecurity, terrorism, kidnapping, killing, and shooting of innocent citizens, as well as environmental destruction due to terrorism in Nigeria is of great concern to governments, security operatives and the civil society. Life now means nothing to terrorists operating in the region, as hundreds of people are kidnapped or killed every day. Information about these crimes and atrocities virtually end up on social media with heart breaking photographs, thus bringing down the dignity of man on earth. This paper proposes a geospatial intelligence framework for terrorism surveillance (GIFTS) so that terrorists’ activities in Nigeria could at least be digitized on crime maps, and published as an outcome of surveillance research. The framework will enable scholars designated as research associates from Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO), and those from 5 other universities in Nigeria to acquire geospatial intelligence and engage in surveillance research extended to selected sub-Saharan African countries. This will be the first of such framework in the region, adaptable by any institution or organization worldwide. Sadly, Nigeria spent millions of dollars sending micro satellites into the orbit, but most regional researchers do not have access and capacity to use the imagery data and information. This model therefore will have state of the art tools to build geospatial intelligence capacity among scholars, government agencies, police and the military, using training modules on 12 project areas.

espanolEl objetivo de este estudio es desarrollar el discurso occidental sobre la libertad de tal manera que sea compatible con la primacia de las leyes del universo y las cosmovisiones de las naciones indigenas, que descartan cualquier deterioro de la armonia en el universo por parte de la humanidad. La humanidad es parte del universo y, por lo tanto, le corresponde a la humanidad no perturbar la armonia en el universo. Solo el universo es libre en un sentido absoluto, es decir, la libertad humana es siempre relativa. Debido a que las leyes del universo siempre reemplazan a las leyes humanas, cualquier intento legislativo humano de relativizar o administrar el universo es nulo ipso facto. Por tanto, el concepto occidental de desarrollo sostenible es ilegal. Las ideologias materialistas de la modernidad han legitimado y camuflado la violencia contra el universo todopoderoso. El agravamiento de la destruccion ambiental obliga a buscar alternativas jurisprudenciales, y estas se encuentran en las cosmovisiones de las naciones indigenas y el escolasticismo occidental. EnglishThe objective of this study is to develop the Occidental discourse on freedom in such a way that it is compatible with the primacy of the laws of the universe and the cosmovisions of the Indigenous nations thus ruling out any deterioration of the harmony in the universe by humanity. Humanity is a part of the universe and therefore it is incumbent on humanity not to disturb the harmony in the universe. Only the universe is free in an absolute sense, i.e., human freedom is always relative. Because the laws of the universe always supersede human laws, any human legislative attempt to relativize or manage the universe is void ipso facto. The Occidental concept of sustainable development is hence illegal. Materialist ideologies of the modernity have legitimized and camouflaged violence against the all powerful universe. The worsening environmental destruction makes it necessary to seek for jurisprudential alternatives, and these are found in the cosmovisions of Indigenous nations and Occidental scholasticism.

The development of the world of technology has provided many changes in the pattern of human life, including influencing environmental phenomena that have an impact on the way of life of citizens. To prevent environmental destruction. So ecological education is one of the efforts to continue the effort to create citizens who care about the environment with their environmental characteristics. This study aims to examine the ecological competence of elementary school students through civic education in building awareness of the environment. The approach used in this research is qualitative with the literature study method. The results of the analysis and study in this study indicate: 1) the competence of knowledge and ecological strategies of elementary school students is formed through civic education, 2) elementary school students can act on environmental issues, 3) elementary school students have the quality to address environmental issues through civic education. So that the conclusion in this study is that the ecological competence of elementary school students can be formed through civic education, the output of which is that these students have environmental skills and character in utilizing their environment.

Contemporary art is brimming with images of a future shaped by environmental destruction, technological innovation, and new forms of sociality. This article looks beyond the content of such...

Land and environmental defenders are a major bulwark against environmental destruction and biodiversity loss resulting from unsustainable nature resource extraction. Resultant conflicts can lead to violence against and deaths of these defenders. Along with mounting environmental pressures, homicides of these defenders are increasing globally. Yet, this issue has only recently started to receive scientific attention. While existing studies indicate the importance of socio-economic processes in driving such murders, spatially explicit global analyses considering environmental components are largely missing. Here, we take a broad spatial approach to assess relative contributions of environmental factors to the killing of environmental defenders. We find higher rates of such homicides are typically found in areas where limited or underutilized resources (e.g., freshwater, land and forests) are more available. Our results point towards a prevalent global land scarcity that results in industries targeting the last remaining strongholds for biodiversity and the environmental defenders within. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13280-021-01557-3.

The public debate on climate change and environmental destruction belongs to those social conflicts that are carried out with an especially great emotional intension. In these disputes, the facet of emotions ranges from negative feelings such as shame, guilt and grief, to positive ones such as hope and compassion. In our paper, we put a focus on these feelings, drawing a conceptual map of emotions triggered by ecological crises. In doing so, our aim is to highlight the ambivalences of the intense emotionality of climate change and its societal effects. The great attention and the reflexivity accorded to ‘climate emotions’, however, should not obscure the view towards those emotional dynamics that are responsible for concealing and denying ecological problems. Based on ethnographic and other empirical studies from social sciences we outline that it is precisely these little-illuminated aspects of emotional re-framing and public emotional silence, which often turn out to be particularly consequential moments in politics. Hence, the emotional motives behind the scene should not go unnoticed in sociological research on emotions within the ecological crises.

This article works with and develops the framework of the genocide-ecocide nexus to examine the relationship between environmental destruction, capitalist expansion, and genocide in Sudan. Arguing ...

In this paper we suggest it is essential for development planners to utilize a social geology approach in making decisions on mining concessions. This is especially so in newly decentralizing democracies, such as Indonesia, where political decisions on natural resource extraction are often subject to accusations of corruption. We investigate several sites in different provinces in eastern Indonesia, where social consequences are constrained by geology and technology for mining minerals. On Flores Island, in the East Nusa Tenggara province, manganese is found as volcanic-hosted manganese layers, requiring heavy machinery from large mining companies, while in the same province, on Timor Island, sedimentary-hosted manganese, found in softer soils, can be mined by local communities. Political decentralization, fears of environmental destruction, and concerns over mining concessions resulted in resistance growing in the province, especially where companies mine without much benefit felt by local communities. We compare mining in East Nusa Tenggara province with mining in Sulawesi, long known for nickel and gold, where small-scale gold mining boomed in the past decade. We argue taking a social geology approach is the only way to fully understand mineral resources and to develop effective, efficient, and safe policies for the benefit of local and regional actors.

Japanese environmental sociology has developed many original perspectives, including the social structure of victims, the benefit versus victimized zone theory, and life environmentalism. Developments in the field can be divided into three stages. The first, to 2001, is characterized by the early organizing of environmental sociologists, including the establishment of the Japanese Association for Environmental Sociology (JAES), and its accompanying journal, and a focus on local environmental destruction case studies. The second, to 2011, is characterized by the institutionalization of the field, while the third was triggered by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The third stage is currently one of diversification and a crisis of academic identity.

El pintor amazónico Rember Yahuarcani narra su experiencia de pasar los primeros meses de la pandemia en Pebas, trabajando en la chacra de sus padres, y muestra las fotografías y las pinturas que realizó durante ese periodo en 2020. Su testimonio nos acerca a su día a día en familia y a la observación detallada de la luminosidad, los colores y formas de los seres amazónicos que alimentan su creatividad de artista visual. Combinando palabra e imagen, también expresa su firme crítica al abandono social y la destrucción ambiental sin tregua.

The El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) event is a climate event that has an impact on the world climate. The effects of ENSO are often associated with prolonged droughts and floods since 1980 following global climate change. In addition to causing flooding and drought. Indirectly, the occurrence of ENSO causes health problems, environmental destruction, affecting economic activities such as agriculture and fisheries. Many studies on ENSO have been conducted. However, there is still a lack of research on the effect of ENSO on temperature in local knowledge areas, especially urban areas because the urban environment especially building materials that can absorb and release heat. In addition, previous studies have focused on large-scale areas. Beside that there still gap to understand and increase knowledge about the effect of ENSO on local temperatures, especially in urban areas. This study uses meteorological data and Oceanic Nino Index (ONI) from 1988 to 2019. This study found that the occurrence of ENSO has an effect on the value of daily temperature but differs based on the value of the ONI index. In addition, this study uses linear regression in predicting the effect of ENSO on temperature. The results of this study are useful to those responsible for understanding the impact of ENSO on temperature in urban areas to provide infrastructure in reducing the impact of ENSO as well as adjustment measures during the occurrence of ENSO.

Considering the mounting conflict of economic growth and environmental destruction, promoting sustainable development has become inevitable in many industries, especially for mines. This study focuses on developing suitable approaches to assess the sustainability for phosphorus mines. First, a comprehensive sustainability assessment criteria scheme is designed. For quantitative criteria, real numbers are utilized to signify objective values. For qualitative criteria, triangular fuzzy numbers (TFNs) are used to represent subjective fuzzy cognition of decision makers. Meanwhile, a variable-weight model is built to calculate sub-criteria weights. Thereafter, the traditional multi-attributive border approximation area comparison (MABAC) approach is modified with hybrid assessment data (i.e., real numbers and TFNs) to obtain the final evaluation results. Last, an example of evaluating the sustainability for four phosphorus mines in China is studied to justify the feasibility of the hybrid multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) method. Moreover, the advantages of our approach are revealed by the sensitivity and comparative analyses. The results show that our approach is dependable to deal with such hybrid MCDM problems and can provide effective guidance for sustainable development management.

The purpose of this research is to described environmental damage damage the environment, protection of the universe and the impact of environmental recovery in novel Di Balik Senja by Moh Rifai. Research qualitative study used descriptive qualitative type methods. Primary data the come of novels Di Balik Senja Karya Moh Rifai. Analysis technique using qualitative analysis descriptive reviews ecology literary environmental destruction, covering damage the environment, maintenance and the impact environment environment maintenance. Based on the research other it can be concluded some respects between the environmental damage in in a novel Di Balik Senja Karya Moh Rifai, the on landslides, maintenance with mountain environment namely set sojol be forest heritage, nature and the impact the habitats of flora and fauna maintenance back to good.

This article presents the musical “Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny”, dating from the Golden Age of collaboration between Bert Brecht and Kurt Weill in Germany. Our ecocritical reading of the libretto is focusing on the treatment that elements of the natural world receive in the opera and on the human – nature relationship in general. We analyze the threat of destruction of the city by a hurricane in relation to the idea of the sublime formulated by Kant and Schiller and taken up by Lyotard two hundred years later. Finally, we return to the question of the human - nature relationship in the play in order to raise the basic problem that strikes us today: planetary environmental destruction resulting from the globalization of the model named Mahagonny.

This study addresses the standpoint of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi about the importance of holistic Islamic view towards living sustainably. Nowadays, human beings are less aware of the environmental destruction that increasingly causing harm to all. The problem arises from people’s abandonment in manifesting the infinite meaning of Allah’s attributes (al-Asma’ al-Husna) in daily practice. In fact, Allah the Most Merciful has fulfilled all the needs of His creatures to the very least. However, we do not take into account the importance of implementing the meaning of al-Asma’ al-Husna to make any progress in all aspects of life. Therefore, Said Nursi was a leading Muslim scholar of the 20th century who strived to give greater understanding and explanation to the importance of manifestation of the God’s Divine Name for the people towards creating awareness of environmental sustainability. This article focuses on the values and ethics related to environmental sustainability from the Bediuzzaman Said Nursi’s perspective in Risale-i Nur. Therefore, the researchers have read the Risale-i Nur inductively to capture Said Nursi’s thought on environmental sustainability. In conclusion, the results of the study found that a good understanding towards (i) the purpose of Allah's creation, (ii) the meaning of al-Asma’ al-Husna and its manifestation, (iii) and the importance of ethics or behaviour towards creatures, can help maintain environmental sustainability and survival of biodiversity.

The consequences of Boko Haram insurgency on the Nigerian state has enjoyed robust interrogation. However, most of the studies have concentrated on human and material losses to the neglect of the e...

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were designed to reconcile environmental protection with socioeconomic development. Here, we compare SDG indicators to a suite of external measures, showing that while most countries are progressing well towards environmental SDGs, this has little relationship with actual biodiversity conservation, and instead better represents socioeconomic development. If this continues, the SDGs will likely serve as a smokescreen for further environmental destruction throughout the decade. Comparing relevant indicators of the Sustainable Development Goals with other indicators of biodiversity trends shows little relation between the two, because the former more strongly reflect socioeconomic indicators.

Continual reduction of landfill space along with rising CO2 levels and environmental pollution, are global issues that will only grow with time if not correctly addressed. The lack of proper waste management infrastructure means gloablly commodity plastics are disposed of incorrectly, leading to both an economical loss and environmental destruction. The bioaccumulation of plastics and microplastics can already be seen in marine ecosystems causing a negative impact on all organisms that live there, ultimately microplastics will bioaccumulate in humans. The opportunity exists to replace the majority of petroleum derived plastics with bioplastics (bio-based, biodegradable or both). This, in conjunction with mechanical and chemical recycling is a renewable and sustainable solution that would help mitigate climate change. This review covers the most promising biopolymers PLA, PGA, PHA and bio-versions of conventional petro-plastics bio-PET, bio-PE. The most optimal recycling routes after reuse and mechanical recycling are: alcoholysis, biodegradation, biological recycling, glycolysis and pyrolysis respectively.

El turismo destaca como estrategia de desarrollo en el sur global aunque, de acuerdo con sus propios promotores, dos de los problemas que pleantea es el de la participación local en sus beneficios y la destrucción ambiental. El objetivo de este trabajo es mostrar que, a pesar de su envoltura desarrollista, el proyecto turístico vigente lleva la marca de la exclusión y de la degradación. Tomando el caso de la costa oaxaqueña dominada por el turismo, se analizan tres mecanismos de exclusión: la intervención en el régimen de propiedad; la creación de infraestructura y la regulación ambiental. Además de confirmar el carácter excluyente del modelo turístico de enclave, el análisis permite entender la lógica de resistencia/aceptación de las comunidades y sugiere que solo la apropiación local logrará hacer del turismo una verdadera alternativa de desarrollo.

In this article, I argue that the concept of alienation should be mobilized to develop a ‘geo-social’ critique of the generic forms of life that sustain contemporary capitalist societies, in a time when the stability of the Earth system is increasingly at risk. I contend that retrieving the full heuristic potential of the concept demands engaging the fields where it has been traditionally discussed (notably social philosophy and environmental philosophy) to demonstrate how their insights on alienation can be fruitfully combined. By putting greater emphasis on how society and nature are mutually embedded, this new approach to alienation highlights the anthropocentrism that critical theory has long conveyed and indicates how it could be at least partially corrected.

Development that carried out every day requires policies to limit and regulate these activities. Development that still relies on natural resources is still abundant in Indonesia. Continuous development will have a positive impact, but it cannot be denied if the development also has a negative impact. One of them is the declining capacity of the environment. If this happens continuously it can have an impact on the survival of all living things, not only humans. Therefore, a policy that regulates permits related to the development is needed. Indonesia has a legal basis relating to environmental destruction instruments that regulate about the types of environmental-related permits such as Environmental Impact Analysis. If there are legal rules, the rules are also important. Implementation of Environmental Permits that will have an impact on maintaining the carrying capacity of the environment.

Coalfield fires are considered a global crisis that contributes significantly to environmental destruction and loss of coal resources and poses a serious threat to human safety and health. In this paper, research related to the initiation, development, and evolution of coalfield fires is reviewed. The existing detection and control techniques of coalfield fires are also reviewed. Traditional firefighting is associated with waste of resources, potential risks of recrudescence, potential safety hazards, extensive and expensive engineering works, and power shortages. Recently, coalfield fires have been recognized as having significant potential for energy conservation and heat energy recovery. Thermoelectric power generation is regarded as a suitable technology for the utilization of heat from coalfield fires. The extraction of heat from coalfield fires can also control coalfield fires and prevent reignition leading to combustion. Technologies for absorbing heat from burning coal and overlying rocks are also analyzed. In addition, the control mode of “three-region linkage” is proposed to improve firefighting efficiency. Integrating heat energy recovery with firefighting is an innovative method to control coalfield fires.

espanolAunque nominalmente neutral, la Directiva sobre las emisiones industriales de la Union Europea incluye tanto la colonialidad del poder como la colonialidad del saber. Si la Directiva se utiliza como plantilla para el derecho ambiental en las Americas y Africa subsahariana, existe el riesgo de que la colonialidad existente alli sea confirmada y reforzada. Al mismo tiempo la base de la Directiva, es que el desarrollo sostenible, no ha podido evitar el empeoramiento de la degradacion ambiental. Por lo tanto, es necesaria una renovacion de la Directiva, por lo que las cosmovisiones de las naciones indigenas con respecto a la posicion de los humanos en el universo deberian ser decisivas EnglishAlthough nominally neutral, the Industrial Emissions Directive of the European Union contains both coloniality of power and coloniality of knowledge. If the Directive is used as a blueprint for environmental law in the Americas and Subsaharan Africa, then extant coloniality is confirmed and strengthened there. Simultaneously, the foundation of the Directive, the sustainable development, has failed to prevent the worsening environmental destruction. It is therefore necessary that the Directive is amended. Here, the cosmovisions of Indigenous nations regarding the place of humans in the universe need to be given a decisive importance

Criminology studies are related to crime studies. Criminology studies attract many academics because these studies are dynamic and can be included in various study areas, one of them is the study of criminology that is included in the study of literature. As a form of creation of the author, literature also raises things related to criminology. In this research, criminology is presented in the Indonesian literary essay. In this case, Indonesian literature is limited to Emha Ainun Najib's work in the form of literary essays. This qualitative-interpretive research study uses data sources from Slilit Sang Kiai (2013); Arus Bawah (2015); and Gelandangan di Kampung Sendiri (2015). The theory used in this research is criminology theory. Based on the analysis, it was concluded that Cak Nun as a cultural figure presented crimes in his literary essay, which is as follows. First, based on an analysis of the criminological context, the forms of crime in Emha Ainun Najib's work include, among others (1) crime of environmental destruction; (2) questionnaire manipulation crime; (3) murder crime; (4) crime of prostitution; and (5) white-collar crimes. Secondly, the tendency of crime to emerge in the work of Emha Ainun Najid through her three works, which is more towards the crime of the government to the people. Second, the tendency of crime that is raised in the work of Emha Ainun Najib through his three works are more directed at government crime against the people

The need to reduce air pollutions produced by motor vehicle and traffic congestion is prominent as it improves human health and environmental destruction mitigation. Ridesharing programme is an effort to reduce traffic congestion without preventing people doing mobility and prohibiting them to buy motor vehicle. This paper addresses to investigate the determinant of university student to ridesharing programme. Four variables with descrete items were provided t respondents to be self selected. Those are home address status, type of driving licence, student’s travel behavior to university and intention of student to ridesharing programme. Those variables are analysed in to three models. By using Logistic Regression statictical analysis, this study shows that ridesharing programme intention is influenced by the behavior of student to travel to university. Meanwhile, student travel behavior is influenced by home address status and the ownership of driving licence of students.

Las obras civiles contribuyen al progreso y mejoran la calidad de vida de las personas, sin embargo, también forman parte de una industria que genera destrucción en el entorno y la naturaleza. Por ello es necesario el uso de indicadores que permitan medir el grado de sustentabilidad de estas obras durante su ciclo de vida, teniendo en cuenta que en cada fase del proyecto se producen impactos que afectan las dimensiones social, económica y ambiental. Además, se hace indispensable que los encargados de determinar y asignar los recursos públicos de los proyectos a ejecutar realicen la priorización de los proyectos fundamentada en criterios objetivos que incluyan indicadores de sustentabilidad. El objetivo de este estudio es identificar indicadores de sustentabilidad que puedan ser usados en la toma de decisiones para la priorización de proyectos viales de caminos básicos. Para lograr nuestro objetivo se ha recopilado información de indicadores de sustentabilidad utilizados en la literatura y metodologías internacionales. Se ha aplicado un cuestionario y entrevistas para conocer la opinión de un grupo de expertos sobre la importancia y factibilidad de medición de estos indicadores. Así, se ha logrado identificar un conjunto de indicadores de sustentabilidad cuya medición es factible y de gran relevancia. Se ha realizado el análisis estadístico del sesgo en la respuesta de los participantes. Así, Se ha obtenido que un tercio de los 39 indicadores de sustentabilidad considerados de alta prioridad corresponden con criterios ambientales. Mientras que los indicadores de sustentabilidad fundamentados en criterios sociales resultaron ser los de mayor relevancia, por lo que los criterios económicos fueron considerados por el grupo de expertos como de menor relevancia. Se espera que este conjunto de indicadores contribuya y pueda ser utilizado como una herramienta para abordar la sustentabilidad de forma integral y generar la priorización de proyectos de caminos básicos incorporando criterios objetivos.