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Environmental strategies in tourism reduce the negative impact of this sector while seeking to achieve positive effects on its competitiveness and differentiation. However, there is still a research gap in the academic literature on the connection between eco-certifications and the prices that clients are willing to pay for this type of service. This paper analyzes guests' willingness to pay for rooms in environmentally friendly hotels in Mexico. The study focuses on three of the states with the largest number of hotel establishments in the country: Quintana Roo, Veracruz, and Jalisco. The differences among the states regarding the willingness of the guests to pay for hotels with eco-certification were evaluated by taking into account the category of the establishment. Hedonic price models were used to evaluate the effect of both eco-certification and different hotel attributes on the price of a room. Information regarding prices was obtained from the Trivago database, and the equations were estimated by taking into account data panel techniques. The results show a significant effect on the willingness to pay for hotels with eco-certifications, with differences among states and categories. The limitation of this research is the time of data collection and the place of application. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article a literature review is carried out with the aim of analysing the current state of research on public policies on eco-innovation in tourism, to provide a knowledge base on the potential and nature of this object of study. A content analysis of the publications in the Web of Science database was carried out. Starting from open-access articles under a structured search equation, 182 articles from the period between 1991 and 2021 were identified; these were subsequently analysed and classified under the Cloud of Science and Tree of Science software. The results show that the study of eco-innovation and its relationship with public policies in tourism contexts is most advanced in Asian countries, and the literature in Latin American contexts is still at an incipient stage. Research on policies that promote environmental care and regulatory policies that improve ecological processes is identified, highlighting the importance of practices and operational factors. It is concluded that studies on remedial, punitive, and macro-regulatory policies for environmental science and technology are absent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, an infectious disease linked to environmental deterioration, this article analyzes the Ecuadorian public policies on climate change as a guarantee of the human right to a healthy environment, through documentary research based on the behaviorist theory of public policies. The deductive method and the documentary analysis technique were used. Ecuador has incorporated regulations on the adaptation and mitigation of climate change, and has implemented plans and programs to eliminate greenhouse gases. However, environmental policy requires state attention, generating investment in environmental matters for national financing (public-private). The strategic health sector requires a budget in order to guarantee the right to a healthy and ecologically balanced environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Global Environmental Impunity Index Mexico 2020 develops a methodology for measuring environmental impunity levels. Environmental impunity is defined through a thick approach following green criminology and refers to the lack of investigation, prosecution, punishment, and damage reparation of crimes committed against the environment; non-compliance of environmental or climate policy objectives; and the inexistence of intergenerational strategies and policy programs. The results show low performance in Mexican states, as they reach half the maximum score they could achieve. This reflects fragile environmental policies and insufficient institutional capacities to protect ecosystems and guarantee the right to a healthy environment. We focus on the importance of measuring degrees of environmental impunity to operationalize environmental justice problems; we discuss the scope of the concept of environmental impunity; we explain the methodological design of its four dimensions, its forty-two indicators, and the statistical model of the Index; and we analyze its aggregate results. In conclusion, the need to develop more reliable systems of environmental indicators; the explanatory value of institutional capacities; and the complexity involved in measuring environmental crimes and damage are each highlighted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article aims to make a methodological contribution to the study of the diverse and heterogeneous interactions between the environment and society, from Political Science. We start from the premise that the different approaches to the study of socio-environmental issues, although varied and based on diverse theories, generally do not visualize its explanatory theoretical characteristics. This situation makes methodological dialogue between them difficult and poses a difficulty for the synthesis of heterogeneous approaches. We seek to order theoretically the main approaches from Political Science (systemic, rationalist and intentional-strategic), describing its most important characteristics. Then, we root these approaches empirically, from the explanatory currents that study the social phenomena produced by the relationship between the environment and society, and we synthesize them with an integrating perspective. We propose three dynamic ideal types to integrate the approach to socio-environmental problems, opening a future agenda to deepen the methodology for the study of environmental policy, mainly in Latin America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pope Francis' discourse in the field of environmental policy has recently generated numerous reactions and controversies, especially since the appearance in 2015 of the Encyclical "(Praise be to you - On Care for Our Common Home" (Laudato Si '). In that framework, this article firstly identifies the main logics or grammars that have intervened in the political-ideological discussions around the environmental cause in recent decades, on a Latin American and world scale. In the second place, the discourse of Pope Francis is located and characterized in that context. The approach in which this work is inscribed is the analysis of political discourse. Based in the recognition of the constitutively antagonistic character of societies, it is oriented to the critical understanding of sociodiscursive practices, emphasizing in their political instances or foundational moments. The central argument of the article is that Francisco's positioning, while differing from the developmentalist logic, is antagonistic to neo-Malthusian and neoliberal positions. At the same time, it approaches critical ecology, modulating it both in relation to the role of transnational corporations and in criticizing the technocratic paradigm and incorporating the notion of the people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Characterizing the Solid Waste Management, both quantitative and as public policy strategy, this article presents a framework for judging the current situation of SWM implementation in Mexico. The article notes that this remains a pending task because the challenge involves waste management, the deficient infrastructure condition that characterizes the Mexican municipalities and because the implementation of the so-called Sustainability Model of Waste has generated significant regional differences, by geographical areas and settlement size, revealing the construction of a new geography, that of the environmental crisis related to the solid waste management in the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Native and western cultural representations of nature are analyzed in a multidisciplinary perspective in the geographic context of the Ecuadorian Amazonia. This social and environmental dynamic has not been clearly understood, and the environmental management is neither efficient nor considered legitimate. For indigenous people nature transcends its intrinsic value and its uses are the basis of their economic subsistence. For Western civilization, a mercantilist vision of nature prevails. This vision is confronted, at the same time, by a biocentric approach that confers certain intrinsic values. The goal of this article is to expand the dialogue between these two visions in the process of designing and executing a coherent environmental policy within the existing complexity. Moreover, some concepts will be brought to answer one key question: Is it possible for Amazonian inhabitants to maintain their levels of natural resource use in a long term period considering globalization within a context of environmental concern? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]