The rethinking and enhancement of the natural and cultural heritage of the cultural landscapes: the case of Sečovlje and Janubio saltpans

Cultural landscapes represent a complex category where the nature-culture dichotomy seem to not be able to unfold the main features and the profound relations that humans have with the environment. Drawing on ethnographic data collected in the saltpans of Se-ovlje (Slovene Istria) and Janubio (Lanzarote--Canary Islands) this article examines informant`s perceptions about the awareness of the importance and the enhancement of the holistic values of both saltpans, as well as the impacts and benefits of tourism. Comparing these perceptions about both cultural landscapes, I try to suggest that the complex fruitfully relations between humans and nature in these saltpans are at odds with the neoliberal logic of nature which exploit and commoditize its resources depriving them of their respective agency. A sustainability to contrast the harmful activities of the market ought to be understood not as a simply isolation and fencing of nature for the sake of conservation, but as a preservation that need to foster the continuity of the deep interactions between human culture and non-human nature which are the core of the cultural landscapes

Free QQ-distributive lattice over an nn-element chain

In this note we provide an explicit construction of $FQ({\bf n})$, the free $Q$-distributive lattice over an $n$-element chain, different from those given by Cignoli [4] and Abad--Díaz Varela [1], and prove that $FQ({\bf n})$ can be endowed with a structure of a De Morgan algebra.Fil: Monteiro, Luis. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Instituto de Matemática Bahía Blanca. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Matemática. Instituto de Matemática Bahía Blanca; ArgentinaFil: Abad, Manuel. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Matemática; ArgentinaFil: Zander, Marta Amalia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca; Argentina. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Matemática; Argentin

The Sustainable Approach to Corporate Social Responsibility: A Global Analysis and Future Trends

Due to the process of globalization, companies are obligated to observe corporate social responsibility and best practices from a sustainability approach towards their stakeholders and society. The explicit aim is to determine the relevance of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its relationship with sustainability, in order to establish trends and future lines of research. The evolution of global research on this subject has been studied from 2001 to 2018. For this purpose, a bibliometric analysis of 1832 articles has been applied, obtaining results of the scientific productivity of the journals, authors, institutions, and countries that contribute to this research. Evidence shows a growing interest in studying the relationship between socially responsible practices and the dimension of sustainability. The main category is Business, Management, and Accounting. The most productive journals are the Journal of Business Ethics and Sustainability. The authors with the most articles are García-Sánchez, Moneva, and Moratis, while Kolk is the most cited. The most prolific institution is the University of Salamanca. The United States is the country with the most publications and quotes. France and China are the countries with the largest number of international collaborations in their work. Global research has been on an upward trend with optimal publication rates in recent years

The Ethnographic Quest in the Midst of COVID-19

The outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 has threatened ethnographic inquiry, undermining its quintessential characteristic. Participant observation, then, has been thoroughly dismembered by the radical measures implemented to prevent the spread of the virus. This phenomenon, in short, has dragged anthropologists to a liminal state within which ethnography is paradoxically caught in an onto-epistemological unstable vortex. The question of being here and not there, during the pandemic, is epitomised in the instability of different spatio-temporal contexts that overlap through technological mediations. Reflecting on previous fieldwork experiences and current virtual inquiries with the Shuar of the Ecuadorian Amazon unfolds how COVID-19 has thoroughly reshaped how the author approaches subjects' socio-ecological settings. Against this background, the article argues that corporeal immersion remains a necessary condition for the anthropological scrutiny of multispecies relationalities amidst the challenging times of the Anthropocene. The article nevertheless demonstrates that the intellectual efforts to grasp the different material temporalities of virtual spaces embrace the ethical principles concerning the renunciation of fieldwork with vulnerable communities. Furthermore, a reflective and speculative stance is proposed to actualise the snapshots of faraway physicalities linking them to past embodied and multi-sensory experiences. It is ultimately theorised how these mnemonic devices operate as creative forms of inquiry that overcome the pandemic consequences, extra-stimulating our cognitive capabilities to reflect on prior and possible socio-material interactions

The moral philosophy of nature: Spiritual Amazonian conceptualizations of the environment

It is well known the harmful effects that savage capitalism has been causing to the environment since its introduction in a sphere in which a different logic and approach to nature are the essential conditions for the maintenance of the ecosystem and its complex relations between humans and non-human organisms. The amazon rainforest is a portion of the planet in which for thousands of years its human dwellers have been interacting with nature that it is understood beyond its physical condition. Thus, to what extent Amazonian’s approaches to nature could be considered as a moral philosophy through which the way of conceptualizing nature and its non-human denizens enhances the continuity of life and the intimate relations between entities? To answer this question, I will explore the cosmological system of the Shuar of the Ecuadorian Amazon with whom I lived for 5 months between July and November 2018, and thereby elucidate the spiritual relations that this society has with the metaphysical domain of nature

Transcending human sociality: eco-cosmological relationships between entities in the ecosphere

Based on a discussion of the theoretical contributions of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Pierre Clastres, this article explores social relationships as more than a human dimension. Though strongly analysed by both anthropologists, these relationships appear to involve indigenous societies’ whole ecological and cosmological system. In this sense, reciprocity, social cohesion, and exchange can be understood as material and immaterial interrelationships between entities of a more than a corporeal world. I argue, then, that to go beyond the mere anthropocentric conceptualisation of sociality in a nature good to think, we need to holistically conceive the interconnected levels of trophic, socio-structural and socio-cosmic relationships and exchanges between human and non-human beings in the ecosystem

Gouvernance dans espaces périurbaines par l’intermédiaire de l’Initiative Européenne LEADER. Le cas du pays madrilène de Las Vegas

The processes of expansion experienced by the cities during the last few decades have created a new urban-regional reality, in which they are inserted peri-urban areas. Initially considered a third-ring suburb of indistinct limits toward that was diluted the suburban sprawl, peri-urban areas are referred to now as a new space category, as a tiers espace that serves as an interface between urban and rural, and that is characterized by its functional complexity. The aim of this article is to analyze new governance structures for peri-urban areas development, through the study of the Local Action Groups, experimental governance entities linked to the Community Initiative LEADER. In particular, we analyze the role played by the Local Action Group ARACOVE in peri-urban region of Las Vegas, in Madrid, through the realization of 32 interviews, as well as quantitative techniques common in studies of urban development.Los procesos de expansión experimentados por las ciudades durante las últimas décadas han generado una nueva realidad urbano-regional, en la cual se insertan los espacios periurbanos. Considerados inicialmente una tercera corona de límites imprecisos hacia la que se diluía la difusión metropolitana, son contemplados actualmente como una nueva categoría espacial, como un tercer espacio que actúa de interfaz entre lo urbano y lo rural, y que se caracteriza por su complejidad funcional. El objeto de este artículo es analizar nuevas estructuras de gobernanza para el desarrollo de espacios periurbanos mediante el estudio de los Grupos de Acción Local, entidades experimentales de gobernanza vinculadas a la Iniciativa Comunitaria LEADER. En concreto, analizamos el papel jugado por el Grupo de Acción Local ARACOVE en la comarca periurbana madrileña de Las Vegas, a través de la realización de 32 entrevistas, así como de técnicas cuantitativas habituales en estudios sobre desarrollo urbano.Les processus d'expansion expérimentés par les villes au cours des dernières décennies ont suscité une nouvelle réalité urbain-régional, dans laquelle sont insérés les espaces périurbains. Considérés initialement une troisième couronne de limites imprécis vers laquelle la diffusion métropolitaine s'éloigna, les espaces périurbains sont visés actuellement comme une nouvelle catégorie spatiale, comme un tiers espace qui agit d'interface entre les zones urbaines et les zones rurales, et qui se caractérise par leur complexité fonctionnelle. Le but de cet article est d'analyser nouvelles structures de gouvernance pour le développement d'espaces périurbains grâce à l'étude des Groupes d'Action Locale, des entités expérimentales de gouvernance liées à l'Initiative Communautaire LEADER. En particulier, nous avons analysé le rôle joué par le Groupe d'Action Locale ARACOVE dans le pays périurbain de Las Vegas, à Madrid, par l'intermédiaire de la réalisation de 32 entretiens, ainsi que de techniques quantitatives habituelles dans les études sur le développement urbain