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Sobre: José Galindo (ed.), Mexico in Focus. Political, Environmental and Social Issues, Nova Publishers, New York, 2015, 430 pp.

Sobre: José Galindo (ed.), Mexico in Focus. Political, Environmental and Social Issues, Nova Publishers, New York, 2015, 430 pp.

En el artículo, derivado de investigación, se muestran las dificultades identificadas en la ciudadela de la Universidad de Antioquia al momento de construir una definición de ambiente en la cual se incluya al ser humano como parte integral del mismo. Para tal fin se aplicaron dos encuestas, la primera que fue denominada "prueba piloto" sirvió para afinar las preguntas usadas en el campo de la psicología a la hora de abordar la preocupación ambiental, ésta es, la escala de Likert; la segunda, fue la encuesta depurada y aplicada entre empleados, docentes y estudiantes de la ciudad universitaria, que ofreció los elementos necesarios para analizar las representaciones sociales del ambiente que comprenden la valoración de los problemas ambientales, el nivel de implicación personal y la capacidad de acción, permitiendo una lectura desde la perspectiva antropológica de las relaciones entre los humanos y el ambiente en ese contexto social.

El artículo es una reflexión sobre la relación de poder y control de las empresas capitalistas con la naturaleza, y cómoa través de la expansión del mercado los bienes de la naturaleza, como bien común de la humanidad, son explotados enformas devastadoras reduciendo los recursos naturales a simples mercancías de compra y venta, sin que estos bienes yservicios lleven incluido el costo de la carga del impacto ambiental-social, por medio del cual se está destruyendo el planeta. Las empresas en complicidad con los gobiernos de los estados y organismos internacionales no favorecen lacreación de instrumentos, políticas y espacios preventivos y punitivos para evitar el daño ambiental social que estasprovocan, debilitando los sistemas jurídicos de protección al medioambiente para continuar la sobre explotación, fielesa su enfoque mercantilista y utilitario. En este sentido, todo el daño que causan las empresas a la naturaleza no formaparte de sus inversiones financieras, no es parte de sus gastos, debido a que no internalizan los costos que lleva producirsus mercancías, haciéndolas más competitivas y rentables, porque no están pagando el costo real que cuesta producirsus bienes y servicios. Frente a estas actividades humanas tan destructivas la capacidad de regeneración natural de lanaturaleza es insuficiente. ; The article is a reflection on the power and control of capitalist enterprises with regards to nature and how, through market expansion, nature as a common good for humanity is exploited in devastating ways, reducing natural resources simple to the buying and selling of goods. Additionally, these goods and services are never including the cost to cover the burden of environmental and social impacts that contribute to destroy the planet. Companies, in complicity with the state governments and international organizations, do not favor the creation of instruments, policies and preventive and punitive social spaces to prevent environmental damage they cause, weakening the legal systems of environment protection in order to continue the overexploitation according to their mercantilist and utilitarian approach. In this sense, all the damage caused to nature by companies is not part of their financial investments; it is part of their expenses as they do not internalize the cost it takes to produce goods. This makes goods more competitive and profitable because not they are paying the actual cost for the production of their goods and services. In face of these human activities, Faced with these destructive human activities, the capacity of regeneration of nature is largely insufficient.

The article is a reflection on the power and control of capitalist enterprises with regards to nature and how, through market expansion, nature as a common good for humanity is exploited in devastating ways, reducing natural resources simple to the buying and selling of goods. Additionally, these goods and services are never including the cost to cover the burden of environmental and social impacts that contribute to destroy the planet. Companies, in complicity with the state governments and international organizations, do not favor the creation of instruments, policies and preventive and punitive social spaces to prevent environmental damage they cause, weakening the legal systems of environment protection in order to continue the overexploitation according to their mercantilist and utilitarian approach. In this sense, all the damage caused to nature by companies is not part of their financial investments; it is part of their expenses as they do not internalize the cost it takes to produce goods. This makes goods more competitive and profitable because not they are paying the actual cost for the production of their goods and services. In face of these human activities, Faced with these destructive human activities, the capacity of regeneration of nature is largely insufficient. ; El artículo es una reflexión sobre la relación de poder y control de las empresas capitalistas con la naturaleza, y cómoa través de la expansión del mercado los bienes de la naturaleza, como bien común de la humanidad, son explotados enformas devastadoras reduciendo los recursos naturales a simples mercancías de compra y venta, sin que estos bienes yservicios lleven incluido el costo de la carga del impacto ambiental-social, por medio del cual se está destruyendo el planeta. Las empresas en complicidad con los gobiernos de los estados y organismos internacionales no favorecen lacreación de instrumentos, políticas y espacios preventivos y punitivos para evitar el daño ambiental social que estasprovocan, debilitando los sistemas jurídicos de protección al medioambiente para continuar la sobre explotación, fielesa su enfoque mercantilista y utilitario. En este sentido, todo el daño que causan las empresas a la naturaleza no formaparte de sus inversiones financieras, no es parte de sus gastos, debido a que no internalizan los costos que lleva producirsus mercancías, haciéndolas más competitivas y rentables, porque no están pagando el costo real que cuesta producirsus bienes y servicios. Frente a estas actividades humanas tan destructivas la capacidad de regeneración natural de lanaturaleza es insuficiente.

The article is a reflection on the power and control of capitalist enterprises with regards to nature and how, through market expansion, nature as a common good for humanity is exploited in devastating ways, reducing natural resources simple to the buying and selling of goods. Additionally, these goods and services are never including the cost to cover the burden of environmental and social impacts that contribute to destroy the planet. Companies, in complicity with the state governments and international organizations, do not favor the creation of instruments, policies and preventive and punitive social spaces to prevent environmental damage they cause, weakening the legal systems of environment protection in order to continue the overexploitation according to their mercantilist and utilitarian approach. In this sense, all the damage caused to nature by companies is not part of their financial investments; it is part of their expenses as they do not internalize the cost it takes to produce goods. This makes goods more competitive and profitable because not they are paying the actual cost for the production of their goods and services. In face of these human activities, Faced with these destructive human activities, the capacity of regeneration of nature is largely insufficient. ; El artículo es una reflexión sobre la relación de poder y control de las empresas capitalistas con la naturaleza, y cómoa través de la expansión del mercado los bienes de la naturaleza, como bien común de la humanidad, son explotados enformas devastadoras reduciendo los recursos naturales a simples mercancías de compra y venta, sin que estos bienes yservicios lleven incluido el costo de la carga del impacto ambiental-social, por medio del cual se está destruyendo el planeta. Las empresas en complicidad con los gobiernos de los estados y organismos internacionales no favorecen lacreación de instrumentos, políticas y espacios preventivos y punitivos para evitar el daño ambiental social que estasprovocan, debilitando los sistemas jurídicos de protección al medioambiente para continuar la sobre explotación, fielesa su enfoque mercantilista y utilitario. En este sentido, todo el daño que causan las empresas a la naturaleza no formaparte de sus inversiones financieras, no es parte de sus gastos, debido a que no internalizan los costos que lleva producirsus mercancías, haciéndolas más competitivas y rentables, porque no están pagando el costo real que cuesta producirsus bienes y servicios. Frente a estas actividades humanas tan destructivas la capacidad de regeneración natural de lanaturaleza es insuficiente.

Social Networking Sites (SNS) as global providers of Internet services raise new challenges in the field of conflict of laws. The most prominent service providers have their headquarters in the US and their business models allow them to offer global services to users around the world under the same terms or conditions. SNS providers typically have recourse to standard terms intended to be applicable to all their users and include choice of forum and choice of law clauses in favour of US courts and US laws. Against this background, the present contribution analyzes applicable law issues raised by social networking sites from the perspective of the European Union (and its Member States). The article addresses the position of SNS providers in the light of the EU harmonization rules on e-commerce and the influence of the place of establishment in the scope of obligations imposed on them. Also the law applicable to the agreements concluded with users is discussed focusing on the implications of their possible characterization as consumer contracts and on the aspects related to the formation of the contract. Determining the law applicable to online activities involving SNS is also essential for the protection of rights and interests of third parties, in particular with regard to intellectual property and personality rights. Additionally, the effective enforcement of EU law to Internet activities in key areas such as data protection requires now determining the mandatory scope of international application of EU or national law with respect to the activities of SNS.

The social consequences of the two earthquakes that we have suffered cannot be measured immediately with the official figures published by the emergency agencies.In short, the real impact on Salvadoran society of this long seismic crisis can be assessed in its true dimension in a long time and after exhaustive studies. Reconstruction is not only economic; it means taking into account all aspects of society as a whole.There are many elements that cannot be recovered, such as the one thousand and eighty deaths according to the official figures and the countless disappeared. The current crisis is interpreted as the possibility of a change to improve the social reality of the country.This idea is positive, of course, but it does not mean ignoring the deep causes of reality. There is a serious situation that in economic terms will have the cost of several generations to raise the country.In social terms, the crisis has poured into the public arena aspects that were kept silent in the Tom Thumb of America: the political, economic and social exclusion in which an important part of the population remains. ; Las consecuencias sociales de los dos terremotos que hemos sufrido no pueden medirse de forma inmediata con las cifras oficiales publicadas por los organismos de emergencia.En definitiva, el impacto real en la sociedad salvadoreña de ésta larga crisis sísmica se podrá valorar en su verdadera dimensión dentro de mucho tiempo y tras exhaustivos estudios. La reconstrucción no es sólo económica, implica tener en cuenta todos los aspectos de la sociedad como un todo.Hay muchos elementos que no podrán recuperarse como los mil 82 fallecidos según las cifras oficiales y los innumerables desaparecidos. La actual crisis se interpreta como la posibilidad de un cambio para mejorar la realidad social del país.Esta idea es positiva, por supuesto, pero no significa ignorar las profundas causas de la realidad. Se vive una grave situación que en términos económicos tendrán el costo de varias generaciones para levantar el país.En términos sociales la crisis ha vertido sobre la palestra pública aspectos que se tenían callados en el Pulgarcito de América: la exclusión política, económica y social en que se mantiene una parte importante de la población.

In Argentina, the agricultural development model of extractive character has generated profound and irreversible impacts. To the loss of biodiversity due to deforestation, the increasing territorial conflict linked to the expulsion and destruction of the peasant and indigenous ways of life and the health conditions of the fumigated peoples must be added.
From primary and secondary sources, the article explores the emergence and trajectory of conflicts and controversies around the use of agrochemicals in the Provinces of Salta and Santiago del Estero.

Despite a growing body of literature on how environmental degradation can fuel civil war, the reverse effect, namely that of conflict on environmental outcomes, is relatively understudied. From a theoretical point of view this effect is ambiguous, with some forces pointing to pressures for environmental degradation and some pointing in the opposite direction. Hence, the overall effect of conflict on the environment is an empirical question. We study this relationship in the case of Colombia. We combine a detailed satellite-based longitudinal dataset on forest cover across municipalities over the period 1990-2010 with a comprehensive panel of conflict-related violent actions by paramilitary militias. We first provide evidence that paramilitary activity significantly reduces the share of forest cover in a panel specification that includes municipal and time fixed effects. Then we confirm these findings by taking advantage of a quasi-experiment that provides us with an exogenous source of variation for the expansion of the paramilitary. Using the distance to the region of Urab´a, the epicenter of such expansion, we instrument paramilitary activity in each cross-section for which data on forest cover is available. As a falsification exercise, we show that the instrument ceases to be relevant after the paramilitaries largely demobilized following peace negotiations with the government. Further, after the demobilization the deforestation effect of the paramilitaries disappears. We explore a number of potential mechanisms that may explain the conflict-driven deforestation, and show evidence suggesting that paramilitary violence generates large outflows of people in order to secure areas for growing illegal crops, exploit mineral resources, and engage in extensive agriculture. In turn, these activities are associated with deforestation.

This paper deals with the environmental responsibility of the Statutory Auditor based on an oversight and intermediation role of this body, which is co-working with the State in the social interest. So National Government has given tasks related to inspection and supervision upon economic activities of public and private entities to develop their social purpose in the country in order to tackle environmental issues affecting their performance. A question seeks to address whether Auditing interferes or not to protect "public interest", otherwise it is required to understand its responsibility against environmental issues by entities or organizations where several relevant tasks are done. ; En este artículo se hace una reflexión sobre la responsabilidad en materia ambiental de la Revisoría Fiscal partiendo del entendido que éste es un órgano de fiscalización e intermediación, que colabora con el Estado en la defensa del interés público, por lo cual el gobierno nacional le ha endilgado funcionesrelacionadas con su actividad de inspección y vigilancia sobre las actividades económicas de los entes públicos y privados que desarrollan su objeto social en el país abordando aspectos ambientales que inciden en su desempeño. La pregunta que se busca resolver en este escrito se centra en sí la Revisoría Fiscal tiene injerencia en la defensa del "interés público" y en ese evento comprender cuál sería su responsabilidad frente a los aspectos ambientales de los entes u organizaciones en donde realiza su trabajo

This paper deals with the environmental responsibility of the Statutory Auditor based on an oversight and intermediation role of this body, which is co-working with the State in the social interest. So National Government has given tasks related to inspection and supervision upon economic activities of public and private entities to develop their social purpose in the country in order to tackle environmental issues affecting their performance. A question seeks to address whether Auditing interferes or not to protect "public interest", otherwise it is required to understand its responsibility against environmental issues by entities or organizations where several relevant tasks are done. ; En este artículo se hace una reflexión sobre la responsabilidad en materia ambiental de la Revisoría Fiscal partiendo del entendido que éste es un órgano de fiscalización e intermediación, que colabora con el Estado en la defensa del interés público, por lo cual el gobierno nacional le ha endilgado funcionesrelacionadas con su actividad de inspección y vigilancia sobre las actividades económicas de los entes públicos y privados que desarrollan su objeto social en el país abordando aspectos ambientales que inciden en su desempeño. La pregunta que se busca resolver en este escrito se centra en sí la Revisoría Fiscal tiene injerencia en la defensa del "interés público" y en ese evento comprender cuál sería su responsabilidad frente a los aspectos ambientales de los entes u organizaciones en donde realiza su trabajo

Affective polarization happens when groups develop mutual negative perceptions and feelings. This phenomenon has raised concern among journalists, opinion leaders, and academics, many of whom have related polarization to partisan politics. Previous research has relied mainly on quantitative data focused on the national-level political polarization of Western societies. In this article, we show that polarization and its negative consequences—the damage to relationships and the rise of violence—may arise after divergence with relevant issues unrelated to political positions or identities. We process trace two communities in Argentina with local environmental conflicts to show the interaction mechanisms that start with an issue difference, continue with affective polarization, and may end with escalation or depolarization. By showing the mechanisms of interaction that lead to polarization, we offer a precise and clear explanation of the process that can be tested in further research.

Airports and aerodromes are transport infrastructures which, apart from contributing to the mobility of people and goods, favor social development, since they promote new activities, stimulate local initiatives and reassess bordering areas. This article presents a synthesis of the Environmental Impact Study of a future aerodrome, whose design project is way at present. The aerodrome is submitted to the EIA administrative procedure due to the currently applicable specific legislation: R.D. 1302/86. The technical document submitted for study is the special plan of the aerodrome. One of the basic criteria in the conception of airports and private airfields is the compatibility with the habitability of the environment as well as with the ecological and landscape conditions. This criteria should play a part in the orientation of the runways, trajectory of the taking off and landing maneuvers., even in the location and design og the parking spaces, hangars and other facilities. This idea suggests the design be conceived with environmental-friendly sensibility, right from the initial stages, without leaving the responsibility of this issue to the environmental study impact. The present study has its own style of approaching the dissemination, consisting of the idea that the reader will find the methodological aspects more useful than the technical data which are of consequence only in the handling of the different project stages. The aspects which are also considered important for the reader are those which allowed the team of editors to form their criteria on the issues of expenses, environmental benefits of the design, its acceptability, etc. The methodology applied is a classical one, in accordance with the requirements of the EIA regulations. ; Los aeropuertos y aeródromos son infraestructuras de transporte que, además de contribuir a la movilidad de las personas y mercancías, fomentan el desarrollo porque promocionan nuevas actividades, estimulan las iniciativas locales y revalorizan los territorios contiguos. Se ...

In modern conditions, the interaction of society and nature is often manifested in the emergence, reconstruction, modernization of various types of economic objects, which is necessarily accompanied by a change in parameters, qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the environment. The magnitude and mass character of such transformations cause environmental implications in accordance with the presumption of the negative impact of economic objects of various degrees of adversity. The latter, with an impressive rate, have transformed socio-economic growth into a category with significant negative anthropogenic factors, limiting or minimizing which is the key to the effective survival of mankind. A profound understanding of this fact contributed to the emergence of many environmental protection strategies and concepts that proposed various ways of harmonizing the interaction of society and nature. However, a small fraction of them was of a preventive nature. Among the ways, methods, mechanisms that would ensure an environmentally safe environment, preventing negative environmental implications were environmental assessment, environmental expertise, strategic environmental assessment and environmental impact assessment. Being genetically interrelated, they became an effective means of environmental policy at the level of regions or countries.The publication analyzes the latest legislation that regulates the sequence and the procedure of conducting environmental impact assessment as a tool for identifying all possible environmental implications of the planned activities. The organizational and legal aspects of implementation of separate stages in the procedure of environmental impact assessment are specified. The ways of realization of interaction of subjects of environmental impact assessment with the aim of preventing environmental harm, ensuring environmental safety, environmental protection, rational use and reproduction of natural resources, in the process of making decisions on conducting economic ...