Outlooks from below for just energy transitions: gender, territory and sovereignty

Abstract

This book discusses and summarizes the revived interest in just energy transitions issues withing the general context of the extraction and commercialization of coal and of energy transition policies in Colombia and worldwide. Even more importantly, the book aims at familiarizing people from various disciplines with a better understanding about how local communities in coal-mining territories in Colombia envision just energy transitions at a local/national level, which are truly inclusive and democratic. The book is based on a pluralistic approach to discuss conceptual references and transversal axes of analysis from the epistemologies of the South, followed by a discussion of possible just and inclusive energy transitions. The methodology is explained within the framework of the pedagogical process “Community re-existence: energy transition, gender and sovereignty”, which provided for a large part of this analysis. The major task of this book is to present the findings of the collaborative research working together with the communities of Lomamato, Provincial, La Sierra and Monguí. Based on these observations, the book tries to assure unity in diversity. Unity, because it systemizes the main recommendations for public policy; diversity, because it carries out intercultural dialogues with communities involved in socio-environmental conflicts, external civil society and international cooperation actors.

Comparison of surgical site infection (SSI) between negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) assisted delayed primary closure and conventional delayed primary closure in grossly contaminated emergency abdominal surgeries: a randomized controlled trial

“…These high rates were attributable to the cases being taken exclusively from the emergency setting, and only class IV wounds were included (33)(34)(35)(36). Similarly, a high rate of SSI was also found in a study on patients who underwent emergency appendicectomy who had an SSI rate of 22.12% (37). Allegranzi et al, in their review of SSI rates in developing countries, found 38.8% of SSI in contaminated and dirty wounds (38).…”