Knowledge Network for Sustainable Local Development

Freddy Marín-González,Ana Judith Paredes Chacín,Mercy Narváez Castro,Alexa Senior-Naveda,Alicia Inciarte González

doi:10.3390/su13031124

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Abstract

This article aims to build a network for the exchange of knowledge between the government and production, community and university sectors for sustainable local development. To achieve this, the authors relied on the concepts of sustainable local development, social capital, the relationship between sectors or intersectorality, networks and interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary knowledge. Regarding the methodology, the abductive method was used. Under a documentary design, the research techniques were a content analysis of theoretical documents and the deductive inference technique. The construction of a knowledge exchange network for sustainable local development stands out as the result. It is concluded that knowledge networks for sustainable local development have positive implications in the establishment of alliances and links between the sectors that make up society.

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Knowledge Network for SustainableSustainable local development refers to a set of transformations that can be carried out in a territory once the economic, social and environmental dimensions have been balanced
The Sustainable Development objectives emerged; one of them raised the urgency of joint action between all sectors and spheres of human activity, which is necessary to achieve sustainability goals such as social equity, environmental health and wealth [7,8]
Intersectorality promotes the improvement of the standard of living of localities and rural or urban territories based on cooperation between the sectors that comprise it

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Knowledge Network for SustainableSustainable local development refers to a set of transformations that can be carried out in a territory once the economic, social and environmental dimensions have been balanced. Intersectorality promotes the improvement of the standard of living of localities and rural or urban territories based on cooperation between the sectors that comprise it In this relationship, knowledge is produced as an expression of social processes and production activities according to their nature; in the present study, this knowledge is called the stock of endogenous capacities, which promotes sustainable productive economic development [12,13,14]. The research started from the assumption that very little is known about how knowledge-action systems work in localities, and how they should be designed to address their complexity To respond to this knowledge gap, the relationships and networks of actors and the knowledge used and generated through the use of land and the governance of green areas in San Juan, Puerto Rico—where there is a political conflict around the issue of employment—were examined. Cultural and epistemological divergences were evidenced, and it was observed that knowledge-produced actions related to professionals and disciplinary knowledge, as in the case of agriculture, architecture and planning, are privileged over others, which reflects competing knowledge systems in land use and planning of green areas in San Juan [15]

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