Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

This article explores the convergence between the political agendas of international organizations and academic research on urban sustainability in Latin America. Using a descriptive-analytical approach, key documents are examined, including reports from UN-Habitat, the IDB, ECLAC, and ILPES, as well as representative academic articles, to identify common themes and assess the evolution of sustainability narratives. The structure of the study includes a theoretical introduction that describes the convergence between international policies and academic studies, highlighting concepts and practices in urban sustainability. The methodology details an analysis of reports and studies addressing regional sustainability agendas from the 1990s, exploring the adopted approaches: ecological, economical, social and poverty-focused, and political and urban management. The findings reveal a bidirectional relationship between political agendas and academic perspectives, highlighting trends, gaps, and patterns in urban sustainability research in Latin America. This relationship helps identify opportunities for improvement in the formulation and implementation of sustainable urban policies, supporting the continuous advancement toward more efficient urban environmental management adapted to the region’s realities. The article thus contributes to understanding how both fields influence each other and their implications for urban sustainability in the Latin American context.

We discuss, based on a narrative theoretical review, the basis for the development of post-normal political culture studies for a better understanding of the environment as a political object in Latin America. To this end, we conduct a historical reconstruction of approaches to the environment as a political object and its arrival in the discipline of political science. Despite the absence a of a "green" subfield in the behaviourist tradition of political science, the environment has been the object of various political culture studies, mainly from the Global North. We review these studies and recognise their theoretical and methodological contributions but point out that they can only explain the phenomenon in Latin America to a limited extent. Likewise, we show how the characteristics of Latin American hybrid political culture and the lines of development of State-society relations in the region are explanatory elements to understand what we could call the paradox of the ecological imagination in the region.

The article analyzes how the discourses and demands of actors involved in agricultural activities in the Coquimbo Region (Chile), among the peasant organizations, trade associations of medium-sized and large producers and public organizations, reflect different views and tensions regarding water scarcity product of the decrease in precipitations and the system of access and distribution of water for irrigation. Using elements of political ecology and discourse analysis, we seek to understand how actors elaborate their discourses on water scarcity and how they adapt other discourses on the topic based on their own interests. The article concludes that, although there are common elements and concepts in all discourses, these reflect different demands and tensions among local producers, and between them and public services. In the case of peasant organizations, water scarcity is addressed as a threat to a rural way of life, from the business sphere it is conceived as a threat to food production and exportation, and for public organizations it is addressed as a risk to environmental sustainability and food security and sovereignty.

This article outlines a contextual approach to the environmental crisis known as the “crisis of our time”, and highlights that, in the face of neoliberal hegemonic recomposition, environmentalist and socio-ecological perspectives are being strengthened in a post-anthropocentric key. An emblematic achievement of these is the subjectivization of nature, i.e., its recognition as a subject with rights, and that is reflected for the first time at the planetary level in the Ecuadorian Constitution enacted in 2008; in the Bolivian laws of 2010 and 2012; with nuances in the Colombian Constitution of 1991, and in the so-called Peruvian Ecological Constitution of 1993. The analytical framework alludes to the philosophical-ontological understanding of nature from a systemic perspective, and an empirical study of four sentences related to the realization of the rights of nature and dictated by the high courts of Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia and Peru, indistinctly, is developed. A relevant objective is to note that without constitutional jurisprudence that protects the realization of the rights of nature, the subjectivation of such rights runs the risk of remaining an ideological-political utopia. The research strategy is based on the application of the so-called multiple case study method.

Wendy Brown alerts us of the advance of homo oeconomicus over homo politicus. The daily practices of individuals are governed and shaped by practices that once belonged to the market. The progress of the neoliberal way of life is beginning to conquer the most recondite scenarios of private life. The American philosopher affirms that governance is a form of dissolution of liberal democracies. Governance disseminates an epistemology, an ontology and a set of depoliticizing practices. For its part, neoliberal reason makes use of techniques that are applied for the immediate purpose of solving problems that prevent the optimal functioning of the neoliberal market while volatility dominates human life. The aim of this paper is to analyze Wendy Brown’s theoretical proposal in the described scenario.

Socio-territorial movements in Mexico are an integral part of the strategy of communitarian revolutionary subjects to consolidate their societies on the margins of the nation-state. As such, they go beyond resistance to strengthen inherited institutions and traditions, innovating when appropriate to diversify and augment their productive capacities while ensuring the solidity of their governance, social structures, and capacity to care for their territories. This essay draws on reflections from a collaborative effort with colleagues from communities and social organizations as part of the project Productive and Social Innovations to Strengthen Communities and Preserve Ecosystems, project No. 319100, financed by the National Humanities, Science, and Technology Council of Mexico. Among the initiatives analyzed are the Mexican members of the Indigenous Peoples and Community Conserved Territories and Areas Consortium (Territories of Life, TICCA Consortium), the work of the Universidad Autónoma Comunal de Oaxaca (UACO), the National Network for Forest Agave Managers linked to the civil association Manejo Integral y Local de Productos Agroforestales (MILPA), and initiatives integrating traditional and agroecological farming techniques to deepen food sovereignty, including La Via Campesina, Paulo Freire secondary school, and the former Universidad de la Tierra in Oaxaca.

In 21st-century Peru, decisions about development —even at high levels of government— still do not fully consider the environmental dimension. This occurs despite progress in environmental institutions since the 1990s, and despite official discourses and instruments that are ostensibly aligned with sustainable development. This omission has been especially evident at critical moments in the last decade, when existing environmental regulation has been weakened. This essay proposes that the policy coherence framework for sustainable development (PCSD) —still rarely used domestically— makes it possible to identify different points where the integration of environmental issues into development decisions needs to be strengthened. In this sense, it is argued that the most urgent pending agenda refers not only to the environmental policy space, but also to points in the policy process where coherence between the major policy spaces (economic, social, environmental) and coherence between national decisions and the country’s international commitments can be ensured.

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This essay aims to analyze the power of the Supreme Court of Justice to suspend the exercise of the legal profession provided for in art. 140 of Act No. 15. 750 since the figure of prosecution in the new criminal procedure system has disappeared. It addresses the right to work and the right to effective administrative guardianship as human rights and their impact on the interpretation ofthe rule involved