Integrated solid waste management (ISWM) is the strategy for waste policy in Mexico. It entails a complex reorganization of waste services that disrupts preceding action systems and ignores previous local practices, such as scavenging, an informal activity whose goal is the recovery of materials from waste. The objective of this paper is to understand the governance of waste in a context of formal and informal rules in the central region of Mexico.
Grassroots innovations for sustainability can take various forms, including novel models for comprehensive waste management. This article examines the contributions of the University Solid Waste Management Program with a Zero Waste approach, a grassroots innovation established by the community of a university campus associated with a non-governmental organization. The program was developed in Cuernavaca, Mexico, in a political and economic context marked by unsustainable and inequitable practices, but with a long history of social struggle for the construction of alternatives. In analytical terms, we study the formation and mutual influence of the sustainability niches of both organizations from the perspective of strategic niche management theory, as well as the benefits resulting from such development.
La sustentabilidad llama a una transformación profunda de la universidad. Este artículo de revisión tuvo como propósito examinar cómo ha sido la adopción de la sustentabilidad en las universidades mexicanas e identificar sus avances y desafíos. Se revisaron los artículos publicados en nueve revistas mexicanas cuyo contenido se refiere a la sustentabilidad, la sostenibilidad, la educación ambiental, el ambiente o la gestión ambiental en la educación superior en México. Tres fueron las dimensiones consideradas para abordar la sustentabilidad en la universidad: universidad integral, universidad integrada y universidad integradora. Los resultados obtenidos mostraron que los avances más sólidos se tuvieron en las dos primeras dimensiones; de ello da cuenta la sostenibilización curricular y el enverdecimiento del campus. Asimismo, se determinó que los principales desafíos radican en la dimensión «universidad integradora», específicamente, en la falta de construcción de una agenda política de sustentabilidad por parte del gobierno universitario.
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