Being a social development project, sustainability points to the neo-liberal State as its main handicap. Before such failures, eco-social competences emerge among individuals, in order to preserve natural resources, by measuring out their consumption and diversifying its use. In that sense,...

Book review of Horacio Cabrera, D. (2006): "Lo tecnológico y lo imaginario", Biblos, Buenos Aires.

Book review of Vázquez Barquero, A. (2005): "Las nuevas fuerzas del desarrollo", Antoni Bosch, Barcelona.

The agro alimentary sector of Mexico needs to modify its productive structure giving some options for facing the challenges presented in seven important world wide factors that will influence to the XXI century agriculture: Globalization and trade releasing in world markets, population growth,...

Regions importance does not decrease in the global context of Economic Thought evolution as space-time technical and economic revolution has forced nations to conceive new production systems, compensate poverty gaps, environmental injury and other capitalist system consequences. Eco-turism has...

Clive Sinclair is the archetype of a self-made man thanks to an entrepreneur spirit and his know-how in an emerging consumer electronics industry. Gifted as inventor, he always pursued cheaper and smaller radios, hi-fi devices, calculators, TVs, home computers --where he got his better...

Structural violence is rarely seen as a form of genocide. Significant deficiencies in existing conceptualizations of both genocide and structural violence suggest that this is unwarranted. The concept of genocide must be expanded to include a wider variety of target human groups, whereas the...

Water scarcity, irregular supply and unhealthiness are problems coming from population explosion and density, expected for 2025. They will be conceptualized from a sustainable approach in two stages. In the first one, validity and likelihood will be settled for tools measuring ten variables: (1)...

The connexion between statistical mechanics basis of Gibbs and Shannon's information theory allows the application of Gibbs's formulas to the resolution of Simplex's problem by Shannon's Maximum Entropy Principle. The method, based in the minimal information that the objective of Simplex, in his...

This is a report on the Development speech and practice construction and implementation in Latin-America, focused in Colombia. The formal transformation process towards "sustainable development" is described, also the way this concept remained encased in coastal zone integral approach, which was...