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In the current context of economic and environmental crisis, the question for developing countries, whether it is better to think about adapting or mitigating climate change. Of the more than 24 million metric tons of C02 emitted in the world, Mexico contributes only 1.6%, although this figure is relatively small is important to devise strategies to tackle the problem of climate change, considering participation of key stakeholders such as government, private sector and civil society, through the design of environmental policies and concrete actions from private enterprise. The target of this paper is to explain how from the private sector itself emerging alternatives for adapting to climate change, the trades do also contribute to the mitigation, such as the experience of industrial ecology has been given in Altamira, Tamaulipas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to make some reflections on the concept of governance applied to building cooperative public policy processes in poor and backward regions. Our arguments come from a study in a mining region of central Mexico, where is taking place a multi stakeholder process that seeks to translate into public policy a risk health management plan. Our intention is not to establish generalizations from the empirical data, but contesting the normative approach to governance in light of tensions and contradictions that we see in the process of generating collective agreements of public nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the process of state transformation in Mexico. Different proposals have been introduced by different governments who have gradually transformed the country. To analyze this process we need to know about the type and deepness of the reform's applicability in Mexico during the frequent transformations in different historical moments. We assess the effects and the efficacy of the reforms according to different levels: constitutional reform as the ones which command the state action; administrative reforms like the processes in public administration; and political reforms like the ones that improved the relationships between state and society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]