Introduction: Between 2012 and 2022, José de la Quintana, an urban rural interface area in the Paravachasca Valley (Córdoba, Argentina), underwent dispersed residential expansion that reshaped pre-existing environmental threats. Objective: the article analyzes how local actors interpret, prioritize, and collectively respond to environmental risk, with particularly emphasis on the recurrence of forest fires. Methodology: based on participatory action research, a qualitative case study was conducted organized under three dimensions: the political-institutional, the material or biophysics and the communal. This last one addressed thought an open workshop and the use of cartography social tools. Conclusions: the case of José de la Quintana shows the multiple forms of vulnerability and exposure characteristic on this urban-rural interface, and the way that this elements condition the local environmental risk. This constitutes a social process emerging from the interaction between material transformations, the inhabitant´s exposure conditions and their response capacities. Participatory meetings at the study revealed knowledge is produced and networks are consolidated. This factors proves fundamental to reducing technical and institutional uncertain, as well as to guiding future territorial protection and planning process.
Introduction: political and technological strategies to mitigate CO2 and CH4 emissions vary across the oil and gas industries and remain insufficient to meet the 2030 Net Zero Emissions Scenario targets. Objective: to comparatively analyze the top ten GHG-emitting oil companies, identified using databases from Carbon Majors, LobbyMaps, and World Benchmarking. Methodology: a qualitative approach based on the content analysis of the industries' sustainability and financial reports, as well as a quadrant analysis to position the O&G companies according to two dimensions: their political strategies and technological strategies. Conclusion: the sector reveals four strategic archetypes of hydrocarbon companies that highlight their progress and lag. BP, Shell, and PetroChina lead the quadrants by integrating technological strategies, while other companies present significant gaps: Pemex shows a discrepancy between its policies and technological implementation, Gazprom develops technical capabilities without solid political backing, and NIOC along with Petróleos de Venezuela remain structurally lagging. These results confirm that an effective energy transition requires the convergence of consistent climate policies and sustained investments in low-carbon technologies.
Introduction: classic forms of extractivism and urban-real estate extractivism generate a series of intertwined socio-spatial transformations: the "soy-ification" of the Pampas, the "Pampeanization" of the Delta, and the "Miamization" of urban life. A contradictory feature emerges from this threefold articulation: water and land are sometimes treated as logistical infrastructure that denies the very nature sustaining it, while at other times, they are viewed as idealized, exclusive nature. These intertwined extractivist transformations can be traced at the local scale by observing changes in land use that establish a new spatial pattern. Objective: this article maps and analyzes land use changes along waterways associated with the expansion of the agro-industrial extractive model and its integration with urban-real estate development in a sector of the Middle Paraná Delta. These transformations occurred over the last two decades, between 2004 and 2024, along the coast of Ramallo, Buenos Aires Province, and the Lechiguanas Islands, Entre Ríos Province (Argentina). Furthermore, these land-use changes cannot be understood without recognizing the connection between the Ramallo waterfront and the Paraguay-Paraná Waterway, as well as the expansion of the Rosario port terminal system and infrastructure for circulation, processing, and shipping within the province of Santa Fe. This area is a true epicenter of the national agro-industrial logistics system and the Río de la Plata Basin. Conclusions: in this work, we argue that the extractive mode of production, with its intertwined agro-industrial, real estate, and logistics variants, induces a systemic and molecular process of land-use change that becomes the hegemonic and multi-scalar form of spatial production. We maintain that this new spatial pattern underlies the civilizational crisis we are experiencing.
Introduction: climate change is a socio-environmental process with risks and impacts that are unevenly distributed across territories and social groups. This article adopts a relational approach to climate vulnerability to analyze the health impacts of climate change on women's health. Objective: to systematize peer-reviewed and open-access empirical literature on the relationship between climate change, health, and gender in order to identify trajectories of women's health vulnerability and to identify patterns and knowledge gaps. Methodology: a systematic scope review of open-access empirical articles addressing women's health in the context of climate change was conducted. Searches were carried out in July and August 2025 in Google Scholar, Scopus, SciELO, Latindex, and JSTOR, in English and Spanish, and without time restrictions. A total of 12 articles were analyzed. Conclusions: under the criteria applied, the evidence is limited and unevenly distributed, South Asia and Africa account for 8 of the 12 studies, compared with 2 in Latin America and only 1 published in Spanish. In the corpus, the combination of exposure to climate hazards, high sensitivity and limited adaptive capacity is associated with a significant health risk for women.
Introduction: Environmental conflicts express social tensions that confront different visions of development and reveal logics of power distribution. Objective: This article aims to present a concise summary of the results of a Master's thesis in Local and Regional Development (CLAEH). It analyzes the environmental conflict generated by the coastal promenade expansion project in Punta Colorada (Maldonado, Uruguay) and explores potential lessons for local development. Methodology: This study conducts a descriptive case study with a qualitative approach, highlighting underlying social problems that contribute to the conflict and are key to shaping the debate. It utilizes secondary data—decrees, plans, programs, laws, technical and journalistic reports—and primary data obtained through participant observation and interviews with key stakeholders, employing a predefined sampling design and snowball sampling. Conclusions: The study identifies key elements for local development, although it points out that there is still much work to be done. Among these elements are the need for a comprehensive understanding of the process, the validation of diverse territorial and technical knowledge, and the strengthening of relationships between stakeholders and the distribution of power. Finally, the applicability of local development theory to the case study is discussed.
