Promoting sustainable consumption in Higher Education Institutions through integrative co-creative processes involving relevant stakeholders

The United Nations proposes to ensure a sustainable future for all through the Sustainable Development Goals, assigning a new role to each individual in all sectors of society. Higher Education Institutions are outstanding agents of change, introducing and implementing sustainability in a holistic way, connecting people, and including social and institutional considerations, with students being a key component of change. This study presents a co-creation model to incorporate sustainability in Higher Education Institutions, integrating all members of the university community with a multidisciplinary approach, seeking to address global needs with development tools for new products and services to facilitate the transition of consumers towards responsible consumption. The model aims to analyze the daily consumption pattern of the community at the university, to identify the degree of commitment to sustainability of its members, and to co-create in search of solutions related to responsible consumption and production. This is achieved through five phases of a model, each with specific tasks and objectives based on co-creation processes and tools. As a result, the model enables stakeholders to understand the needs of their community by actively participating within the five phases for developing more democratic solutions and social involvement regarding sustainability issues that can be solved through a co-creative process. The model combines the benefits through ethnographic techniques to discover habits, tools to involve participation, and co-creation to manage complex problems. Future research will focus on the application of the proposed model to more generalist contexts of society, addressing potential challenges due to vertical collaboration and barriers pre-established by society for the adoption of a sustainable lifestyle

Differential clinical characteristics and prognosis of intraventricular conduction defects in patients with chronic heart failure

Intraventricular conduction defects (IVCDs) can impair prognosis of heart failure (HF), but their specific impact is not well established. This study aimed to analyse the clinical profile and outcomes of HF patients with LBBB, right bundle branch block (RBBB), left anterior fascicular block (LAFB), and no IVCDs. Clinical variables and outcomes after a median follow-up of 21 months were analysed in 1762 patients with chronic HF and LBBB (n = 532), RBBB (n = 134), LAFB (n = 154), and no IVCDs (n = 942). LBBB was associated with more marked LV dilation, depressed LVEF, and mitral valve regurgitation. Patients with RBBB presented overt signs of congestive HF and depressed right ventricular motion. The LAFB group presented intermediate clinical characteristics, and patients with no IVCDs were more often women with less enlarged left ventricles and less depressed LVEF. Death occurred in 332 patients (interannual mortality = 10.8%): cardiovascular in 257, extravascular in 61, and of unknown origin in 14 patients. Cardiac death occurred in 230 (pump failure in 171 and sudden death in 59). An adjusted Cox model showed higher risk of cardiac death and pump failure death in the LBBB and RBBB than in the LAFB and the no IVCD groups. LBBB and RBBB are associated with different clinical profiles and both are independent predictors of increased risk of cardiac death in patients with HF. A more favourable prognosis was observed in patients with LAFB and in those free of IVCDs. Further research in HF patients with RBBB is warranted

Anales del III Congreso Internacional de Vivienda y Ciudad "Debate en torno a la nueva agenda urbana"

Acta de congresoEl III Congreso Internacional de Vivienda y Ciudad “Debates en torno a la NUEVa Agenda Urbana”, ha sido una apuesta de alto compromiso por acercar los debates centrales y urgentes que tensionan el pleno ejercicio del derecho a la ciudad. Para ello las instituciones organizadoras (INVIHAB –Instituto de Investigación de Vivienda y Hábitat y MGyDH-Maestría en Gestión y Desarrollo Habitacional-1), hemos convidado un espacio que se concretó con potencia en un debate transdisciplinario. Convocó a intelectuales de prestigio internacional, investigadores, académicos y gestores estatales, y en una metodología de innovación articuló las voces académicas con las de las organizaciones sociales y/o barriales en el Foro de las Organizaciones Sociales que tuvo su espacio propio para dar voz a quienes están trabajando en los desafíos para garantizar los derechos a la vivienda y los bienes urbanos en nuestras ciudades del Siglo XXI

El reto de conservar y producir: biodiversidad y sistemas productivos en la cuenca media y baja del río cravo sur

El proyecto “Cravo Sur: río vital: estrategias para la conservación y recuperación de los bosques de la cuenca media y baja del río Cravo Sur en Yopal, San Luis de Palenque y Orocué, Casanare”, fue liderado por la Fundación Palmarito Casanare y la Fundación Cunaguaro, teniendo como socio estratégico al grupo de investigación CAZAO de la Escuela de Ciencias Agrícolas, Pecuarias y del Medio Ambiente –ECAPMA, de la Uni-versidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia –UNAD CEAD Yopal, sede para Casanare. Esta iniciativa fue financiada por el Fondo Acción a través del Acuerdo para la Conservación de Bosques Tropicales TFCA.Como producto de la investigación, así como de los trabajos realizados por investi-gadores en esta cuenca, nace el libro El reto de conservar y producir: Biodiversidad y Sistemas Productivos de la cuenca media y baja del río Cravo Sur, que corresponde a la expresión de tres aspectos concatenados, para mostrarle al lector la bondad de utilizar la figura de conservación-producción de los ecosistemas de la cuenca media y baja del río Cravo Sur. En el libro se resalta su extraordinaria biodiversidad, los siste-mas productivos presentes y las estrategias de conservación planteadas para mitigar los factores negativos que inciden en la conservación de los paisajes del río Cravo Sur.Se describe en detalle la gran biodiversidad de la cuenca, más de 1000 especies de flo-ra, 400 especies de aves, artrópodos, peces, anfibios, reptiles y mamíferos de la cuen-ca media y baja del Cravo Sur. También se incluyen capítulos dedicados a los felinos y el morrocoy (Chelonoidis carbonarius), en la cuenca del río Cravo Sur y otras cuencas de la Orinoquía, finalizando con las mariposas.Se dedica una segunda parte del libro a la descripción de los sistemas productivos, se analiza para la cuenca del Cravo Sur la ganadería bovina, los cultivos de arroz, el panorama ambiental, social y económico del cultivo de palma de aceite (Elaeis gui-neensis), los sistemas de producción piscícola de pequeña escala y el estado actual de la minería, resaltando las experiencias positivas de producción sostenible y los retos hacia delante.Finalmente, se presentan estrategias de conservación, relacionando experiencias e iniciativas que buscan el fortalecimiento de capacidades territoriales, con miras a con-servar los bosques del río Cravo Sur, descritas en los capítulos de la iniciativa privada, una poderosa herramienta de conservación en la Orinoquía Colombiana; restauración en la cuenca media y baja del río Cravo Sur; fortalecimiento de capacidades locales y finaliza con el capítulo de acuerdos de conservación voluntarios en la cuenca

Differential clinical characteristics and prognosis of intraventricular conduction defects in patients with chronic heart failure

Intraventricular conduction defects (IVCDs) can impair prognosis of heart failure (HF), but their specific impact is not well established. This study aimed to analyse the clinical profile and outcomes of HF patients with LBBB, right bundle branch block (RBBB), left anterior fascicular block (LAFB), and no IVCDs. Clinical variables and outcomes after a median follow-up of 21 months were analysed in 1762 patients with chronic HF and LBBB (n = 532), RBBB (n = 134), LAFB (n = 154), and no IVCDs (n = 942). LBBB was associated with more marked LV dilation, depressed LVEF, and mitral valve regurgitation. Patients with RBBB presented overt signs of congestive HF and depressed right ventricular motion. The LAFB group presented intermediate clinical characteristics, and patients with no IVCDs were more often women with less enlarged left ventricles and less depressed LVEF. Death occurred in 332 patients (interannual mortality = 10.8%): cardiovascular in 257, extravascular in 61, and of unknown origin in 14 patients. Cardiac death occurred in 230 (pump failure in 171 and sudden death in 59). An adjusted Cox model showed higher risk of cardiac death and pump failure death in the LBBB and RBBB than in the LAFB and the no IVCD groups. LBBB and RBBB are associated with different clinical profiles and both are independent predictors of increased risk of cardiac death in patients with HF. A more favourable prognosis was observed in patients with LAFB and in those free of IVCDs. Further research in HF patients with RBBB is warranted