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Esta investigación cuantitativa tiene como objetivo analizar la incorporación del aula invertida en el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje sobre las matemáticas. La muestra está conformada por 88 estudiantes de la Facultad de Negocios que cursaron la asignatura Matemáticas básicas para los negocios durante el ciclo escolar 2016. Este estudio analiza el impacto del aula invertida para la compresión, habilidad, aplicación y utilidad de las derivadas. Por medio de la regresión, estas variables son utilizadas para la construcción de cuatro modelos de pronóstico relacionados con las calificaciones del examen parcial. Los resultados obtenidos permiten señalar que el aula invertida representa una estrategia didáctica innovadora, creativa e idónea para facilitar la asimilación y aplicación del conocimiento en el área de las matemáticas.

El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar la vulnerabilidad, la capacidad de adaptación y el empoderamiento para enfrentar el cambio climático a través de la percepción de los habitantes en dos comunidades periurbanas expuestas a huracanes e inundaciones en La Paz, Baja California Sur, México. Desarrollamos talleres participativos en cada comunidad para obtener la percepción acerca de su exposición a cambios climáticos y la forma en que los han enfrentado. Ambas comunidades tuvieron la percepción de que ha habido un cambio en las condiciones climáticas a lo largo del año, indicando que ambas son conscientes de la variabilidad climática. La gente reconoció su vulnerabilidad a los cambios en el clima y la alta frecuencia de ciclones en la zona. Además, ellos identificaron las transformaciones económicas y las adaptaciones sociales que estos fenómenos han provocado, y reconocieron los impactos en la salud debidos a la proliferación de nuevas enfermedades. Esto nos permitió confirmar como las percepciones de los habitantes son fundamentales, no sólo para detectar la variabilidad climática, sino también para demostrar la importancia del conocimiento local para reducir la vulnerabilidad y mejorar la capacidad de adaptación y empoderamiento. Obtener información local de los impactos del clima para entender las causas sociales de la vulnerabilidad, la adaptación y el empoderamiento es un planeamiento novedoso en el análisis del cambio climático.

Tourism in natural areas is a phenomenon that has intensified in recent decades. The purpose of this paper is to identify the impacts of tourism on the Sierra de San Pedro Martir and Constitución de 1857 National Parks. To this end, direct observation and 18 semi-structured interviews with local officials and residents of the areas of study were conducted. The most striking results were the impacts on the natural environment and the interaction between government employees, local actors and tourists, as well as the differences and similarities between the impacts on the two parks. For both study areas, special attention should be paid to the ecological impact, since state development programs encourage increasing the number of park visitors without considering the damage this could cause their ecosystems. Since there are very few studies in the country covering the social and economic aspects of tourism in natural areas, more work should be conducted on these fields.

The paper presents an analysis of the evaluation architecture of the National Commission of Natural Protected Areas (Spanish acronym CONANP). The purpose is to recognize factors that promote and inhibit the use of evaluations to guide the decision-making of park rangers who manage Natural Protected Areas (NPAs) in central Mexico. Ethnographic research techniques were used, which facilitated interaction with the organization’s personnel to understand the social process that influences the production and use of evaluations. Park rangers were found to interact with three types of evaluation, none of them was used to identify the impact of their actions. Nevertheless, their interaction enables them to identify areas for improvement in their management of NPAs. Some barriers are related to park rangers’ scope for maneuver regarding the implementation of changes, due, on the one hand, to budgetary limitations affecting their operational capacity and, on the other, to the negative consequences of an evaluative approach that requires demonstrating quantifiable results in the short term.

This study explores the environmental health status  of agricultural localities in the Rural Development District 144 (DDR 144) in Sonora, Mexico. After reviewing the results of research undertaken through various environmental matrices on soil, water, fruits and vegetables that have proven the presence of pesticides in several agricultural areas of the state, it was decided to address the health effects associated with chronic exposure to thesesubstances. It is an exploratory-descriptive study, based on scientific information published in official documents and articles between 1988 and 2018. As a methodological guide, the  Driving forces – Pressure – Status – Exposure – Effect - Action (DPSEEA) model was used to identify the main factors of the macroeconomic and environmental dimensions linked to environmental health problems. The results confirm environmental deterioration, the presence of health risks for the population, as well as an association between the two due to the use of agrochemicals in agriculture, the main economic activity in DDR 144.  The author recommends expanding the study at the state level and by age group, and with specific health data.

Using the notion of heritage, the article analyzes the way people classify certain goods as inalienable, especially in contexts involving controversy over limited resources. Although this type of approach is useful for a variety of cases of study, the paper focuses on the way the inhabitants of a region known as Sierra de Catorce, in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí, —an area that attracts Catholic pilgrims, indigenous Huichol people, tourists and mining companies— seek to control access to their natural resources through political organizations linking regional identity with mining work.

This study explores the premise that effective participation in conservation can be facilitated when local community members develop the capacity to assess their management actions and evaluate various alternatives that promote natural resource management and conservation. To this end, we present information on the definition of the topics of interest that participants from two communities in Calakmul, Campeche agreed on to undertake joint research activities. The issues generated, through focus groups and participatory mapping, pointed to productive aspects, rather than those directly related to conservation, reflecting the needs and concerns of participants. The results of this selection of topics were analyzed as a diagnosis that makes it possible to interpret the local reality according from the perspective of its inhabitants and to identify key aspects implicit in conservation. Emphasis is placed on the importance of collaborative work between academia and civil society in contributing to increasing the local capacities required for the management of the region in the medium and long term. The challenges of this framework are also analyzed.

This article examines the inclusive models of Community Rural Tourism (CRT) and the Multifactorial Model for Empowerment (MME) in the community organizations of the Calakmul Ecotourism Network (REC), in Campeche, as a proposal for boosting the economy of rural communities and human development. It explores the structure of the groups, the management of tourist activity and the work of women. Qualitative methodological tools were used, such as group interviews, in-depth interviews and participant observation. It was observed that the REC benefited the women’s organization, promoted productive activities such as ecotourism, activated the economy, promoted groups at the local and regional level, encouraged formal and informal education processes, and enabled women to manage their time, relate to other people beyond their community, gain confidence and security and display their traditional knowledge. However, it was observed that the REC does not operate with a gender perspective, that there are economic and personal conflicts, and that its work enjoys scant recognition from the municipality. Likewise, ecotourism activities in the region have been stymied by the lack of interest of local authorities in having men’s and women’s groups manage their own resources.

This paper examines the ecofeminism of subsistence in order to determine the participation of women in the conservation of native maize through the production and sale of artisanal tortillas. It is a feminist, ethnographic study, designed to lend visibility to the gender relationships that result in negotiations between the men and women that sustain the food continuity between maize and   artisanal tortillas. Three types of interviews were conducted (in depth, semi-structured and structured) with men and women ≥ 18 years, who participate in activities related to the food continuity between maize and artisanal tortillas in the La Placita market of Ixtlahuaca, in Mexico State. The results are grouped into three types of actors: women who make and sell artisanal tortillas, landrace corn producers and tortilla consumers. Negotiations between groups are discussed, together with the influence of external factors such as the sowing of improved corn and access to landrace corn. The article concludes that the permanence of landrace corn is linked to the relationships and negotiations established by the women who make and sell tortillas between producers and consumers, linked to subsistence strategies.

In this text, the aim is to develop a theoretical explanation for the degradation of the Santiago River in Jalisco, based on the notions of institutionalized corruption and the myth of the multinational. To this end, beginning with analyses of the “neoliberalization of nature”, I examine market environmentalism as a response to the ecological crises brought on by the tendency of capitalist production, and particularly its current neoliberal form, to degrade its conditions of production and nature more broadly. I subsequently analyze the adaptation of market environmentalism “for poor countries”, leading to environmental regulations that empower the private sector, as exemplified in Mexican legislation. On the basis of field research, I subsequently present a summary of empirical findings that support the hypothesis of institutionalized corruption. Finally, the conclusions address how the regulation of industrial wastewater in Mexico reflects the bias of market environmentalism in its version “for poor countries”, based on unverifiable assumptions regarding the compliance of transnational companies or what I propose to call the “myth of multinationals”.