Social Innovation in Latin America: Maintaining and Restoring Social and Natural Capital

ISBN-13: 9780367722654 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 228 str.

Andres Morales

Opis

Latin America contains a rich diversity from which humans derive a range of ecosystem services that contribute to livelihoods and wellbeing. To ensure the sustainable use and management of social and natural capital in the region, all manner of organisations are engaging in social innovation.

Spis treści

PART 1. Conceptual frameworks to understand social innovation and natural and social capital in　Latin America. 1 Buen Vivir, a decolonial approach to development Andrés Morales and Sara Calvo. 2 Global governance to address local ills: the Universal Periodic Review aiding the creation of a Third Space in pursuit of land rights that support social innovation, biodiversity and natural capital in Latin America Louisa Ashley. PART 2. Social Innovation and Natural Capital. 3 The environment through the regulation of emissions resulting from the automobile journeys in Peru Jose Carlos Soldevilla Saavedra. 4 The Purepechas of Cheran: Community solidarity, public security and environmental conservation in Mexico Karol Gil-Vazquez. 5 The Sustainable Innovation of Salinerito in Ecuador Fabián Vargas and Mario Cadena López. 6 Socio-technical regimes to understand grassroots innovations and natural capital in Chile Nancy Saravia and Jordi Peris. PART 3. Social Innovation and Human Capital. 7 Entrepreneurship, associativity and social technologies in rural communities: a reading from the Papal Encyclical Laudato Si in Colombia Marietta Bucheli and Juan Fernando Álvarez. 8 Cooperativism in Acapulco, México Roberto Cañedo Villarreal; María del Carmen Barragán Mendoza and Daniel Francisco Nagao Menezes. 9 Social, economic and environmental factors and the relationship with the knowledge, skills of entrepreneurs (KSE) and companies’ internal factors (CIF). Findings from collective enterprises in a context of crisis in Colombia Ana Milena Silva Valencia. 10 Fair trade focus of social joint and engine for the sustainable local development: experiences in Quito-Ecuador with the American City of Fair Trade Cesar Augusto Marcillo Vaca, Laura Angélica de la Cruz Guerrero and Jaime Ramiro Figueroa Fraga.