Social-environmental issues have gained notoriety in the last decades. There is a growing concern in some aspects and on different scales, mainly in regard to global climate change and its results, not only related to the ...

This special section brings together 4 of the 12 studies conducted within a research program analyzing the relationships among social mobilization, governance. and rural development in contemporary Latin America. The ...

This article analyzes the role of social movements and environmental organizations in crafting contingent coalitions to advance renewable energies in Chile. Until recently, Chile presented several conditions predicting the ...

Between 2009 and 2019, Chile experienced the rise and fall of a powerful and influential environmental movement. This movement spurred massive protests against large-scale energy and mining projects, successfully blocking ...

Brazil, which relies on hydroelectric power, has developed other sources of renewable energy, mainly wind power. The state of Cear, in the northeastern region, has a potential wind power of 26.2 GW; however, this form of ...

This paper uses the Physical Geography approach to analyze the environmental complexities of an area located in the coastal plain of the Serra do Mar. The quilombola territory (territory of quilombos inhabitants), from its ...

Social innovations are important tools for minimizing or solving social problems. However, there are still major challenges regarding the management of social innovations development in order to expand their social impacts, ...

Social innovations are important tools for minimizing or solving social problems. However, there are still major challenges regarding the management of social innovations development in order to expand their social impacts, ...