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Walter Leal Filho
Ricardo Noyola-Cherpitel
Pedro Medellín-Milán
Valeria Ruiz Vargas Editors
Sustainable
Development Research
and Practice in Mexico
and Selected Latin
American Countries
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ManchesterMetropolitan University Universidad Autónoma deSanLuisPotosí
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Ricardo Noyola-Cherpitel Valeria RuizVargas
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Preface
Many universities in Mexico and in Latin America perform high-quality research
on matters related to sustainable development. Yet, there are relatively few publi-
cations where a multidisciplinary overview of research efforts and projects across
the region is documented, and where researchers from across the spectrum of the
natural and social sciences have had the opportunity to document and promote
researchmethods,theresultsofempiricalresearchorexchangeideasaboutongoing
and future research initiatives focusing on sustainable development.
It is against this background that the book “Sustainable Development Research
andPracticeinMexicoandSelectedLatinAmericanCountries”hasbeenproduced.
It is the outcome of a specialist event organised by the Universidad Autónoma de
San Luis Potosí, Mexico; Manchester Metropolitan University, UK; and HAW
Hamburg, Germany, under the auspices of the Inter-University Sustainable
Development Research Programme (IUSDRP) and a number of institutions of
higher education active in this field, from across the region.
The book has three aims:
(a) toprovideresearchersatuniversitiesinMexicoandLatinAmericaperforming
research on issues pertaining sustainable development with an opportunity to
document their work (i.e. curriculum innovation, empirical work, activities,
case studies, practical projects);
(b) to support the exchange of information, ideas and experiences acquired in the
execution of research projects, successful initiatives and good practice;
(c) tointroducemethodologicalapproachesandprojectsandprovideaplatformfor
further cooperation.
This book entails contributions from researchers in the field of sustainable
development in the widest sense, from business and economics, to arts, adminis-
tration, environment, languages and media studies, with a focus on “Sustainable
Development Research”.
Thanks to its nature, this publication is expected to contribute to the further
development of this fast-growing field.
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Wethanktheauthorsforsharingtheirknowledgeandknow-how,andthemany
reviewerswhohaveassistedwiththepeerreviewofthepapers.Wehopethisbook
will further support the development of sustainability research in Latin America.
Manchester, UK Walter Leal Filho
San Luis Potosí, Mexico Ricardo Noyola-Cherpitel
San Luis Potosí, Mexico Pedro Medellín-Milán
Manchester, UK Valeria Ruiz Vargas
Winter 2018
Contents
AStrategicDifferentiationProposalforaCruiseTourismOffer,Built
on the Cultural Identity of the Host Community of Puerto Progreso,
Yucatan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Argelia Salazar Estrada
UrBis: A Mobile Crowdsourcing Platform for Sustainable Social and
Urban Research in México. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
S. Ruiz-Correa, E. E. Hernandez-Huerfano, L. Alvarez-Rivera,
V. E. Islas-López, V. A. Ramirez-Sanchez, M. González-Abundes,
Ma.deL.Hernández-Castañeda,E.Carrillo-Sanchez,R.Hasimoto-Beltrán
and I. Plata-Ortega
The Living Interculturality of Chiapas to Recreate the Modern
University Towards Sustainability Horizons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Felipe Reyes-Escutia
Sustainable Development for Farmers Transforming Agroindustrial
Wastes into Profitable Green Products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Noé Aguilar-Rivera and Teresita de Jesús Debernardi-Vázquez
Strategies for Guiding Community Organizations in Sustainable
Development: The Case of Monteria’s Urban Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Jorge Rafael Villadiego Lorduy, Dennis Paul Huffman Schwocho,
Yhonattan Mendez Nobles and Stalyn Yasid Guerrero Gómez
PedagogicProposalFocusedonSustainableDevelopment:Fracking,a
Matter of Active Debate at Present in the Argentine Patagonia. . . . . . . 93
Alida M. Abad, Cecilia E. S. Alvaro and Norma Sbarbati Nudelman
A Low-Cost and Low-Tech Modular Solar Still as a Reliable and
Sustainable Water Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Gregor Zieke
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VulnerabilityandCopingCapacityofthePopulationofLowBalsasto
Extreme Environmental Hazards to a Sustainable Development: A
Case Study of the Population of Cuitaz, Zirandaro, Guerrero. . . . . . . . 121
Liliana Aguilar-Armendáriz, Angel García-Pineda
and Saray Bucio-Mendoza
Transference of Ecotechnology in Disadvantaged Regions of Mexico,
Towards Sustainable Development. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Lorena del Carmen Alvarez-Castañon, Daniel Tagle-Zamora
and Maricruz Romero-Ugalde
A Decalogue for Education for Sustainability Across Environmental
Generic Competencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Rosalba Thomas Muñoz
Oil Exploitation in Yasuni Biosphere Reserve. Impact on Ecuador’s
Commitment with Sustainability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Alicia Anahí Cisneros Vidales and Víctor Mauricio Barriga Albuja
Individual Resilience and the Environmental Education for
Sustainability as a Base of Community Resilience. A Case Study with
High School Teachers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Erick Cajigal, Ana Lucía Maldonado and Edgar González-Gaudiano
Assessment of Competencies for Sustainability in Secondary
Education in Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Jorge Gustavo Rodríguez-Aboytes and Luz María Nieto-Caraveo
Methodological Proposal to Evaluate Touristic Activity with Local
Sustainability Criteria in the Hydrographic Sub-Basins of the
Huasteca Potosina, Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Salvador Luna Vargas, María de la Luz Valderrábano Almegua,
Irma Suárez Rodríguez and Larisa Alcérreca Molina
Mercury Concentration in Hair Due to Environment on Two
Populations in Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Isela Martínez Fuentes and Rocío García Martínez
Organization and Community Management of Water for Domestic
Use in a Rural Community in Nicaragua. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Juana María Zavala-Figueroa and Juan Alberto Velázquez-Zapata
Towards a Participative Environmental Management Education
Model Using Information and Communication Technologies . . . . . . . . . 267
Gloria Peza-Hernández, Ana Laura Barrera-González
and Ana Ilse Benavides-Lahnstein
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Green Areas and Environmental Justice: Toward the Urban
Sustainability of León, Guanajuato . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Jairo Agustín Reyes Plata, María del Carmen Villanueva Vilchis
and Arlene Iskra García Vázquez
The Need for an Integrated Landscape Management Approach
Illustrated by the Analysis ofthe Participation inthe Ecologic Spatial
Planning of Benito Juárez, Quintana Roo, Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Anna Lena Di Carlo, Miguel Aguilar Robledo,
Carlos Alfonso Muñoz Robles and Pedro Medellín-Milán
Mediating Traditional Ecological Knowledge Through Participatory
Documentary: Emerging Educational Strategies for Sustainability in
Southern Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Juan Carlos A. Sandoval Rivera, Guadalupe Mendoza Zuany
and Rob O’Donoghue
Evaluation of Climate Change Impact as a Tool for Sustainable
Development: A Case Study of a Mexican Basin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Rodrigo Dávila-Ortiz and Juan Alberto Velázquez-Zapata
From Asset to Liability: The Sustainability of Waterscape
Transformations in the Santiago River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
Lourdes Marcela López Mares, Filiberto Adrián Moreno Mata,
Benjamín Fidel Alva Fuentes and Joel Hernández Martínez
Children’sPerceptiontoEnvironmentalRiskstoHealth,KeyElement
in the Design of Environmental Health Intervention Programs . . . . . . . 357
Ana Cristina Cubillas-Tejeda, Alejandra León-Gómez,
Juan Carlos Torrico-Albino and Luz María Nieto-Caraveo
Risk Communication as an Alternative Intervention to Improve the
Environmental Health in Children in an Area with Various
Environmental Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
Claudia Davinia Monsiváis-Nava, Ismael García-Cedillo,
Leonardo Ernesto Márquez-Mireles, Rogelio Flores-Ramírez
and Ana Cristina Cubillas-Tejeda
Integrative Project of Converging Knowledge of Sustainability, with
Focus on Migratory Processes, Pest Management and Practices of
Traditional Medicine in an Educational Model of Interculturality. . . . . 395
Edilma De Jesus Desidério, Marja Liza Fajardo Franco
and Laurentino Lucas Campo
Water-Worlds: How to Research Under the Umbrella of Sustainable
Development Being Aware of Its Multiple Ambiguities? . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
Javier Taks
