Social Innovation in Latin America

Sara Calvo is the co-founder of Minca Ventures and the Director of the Master’s in Cooperation and International Development at Universidad Internacional de la Rioja in Spain.Andrés Morales is the co-founder of Minca Ventures and an Associate Professor of International Development and Social Enterprise at Universidad Internacional de la Rioja in Spain.

• PART 1. Conceptual frameworks to understand social innovation and natural and social capital in Latin America. 1 Buen Vivir, a decolonial approach to development Andrés Morales and Sara Calvo. 2 Global governance to address local ills: the Universal Periodic Review aiding the creation of a Third Space in pursuit of land rights that support social innovation, biodiversity and natural capital in Latin America Louisa Ashley. PART 2. Social Innovation and Natural Capital. 3 The environment through the regulation of emissions resulting from the automobile journeys in Peru Jose Carlos Soldevilla Saavedra. 4 The Purepechas of Cheran: Community solidarity, public security and environmental conservation in Mexico Karol Gil-Vazquez. 5 The Sustainable Innovation of Salinerito in Ecuador Fabián Vargas and Mario Cadena López. 6 Socio-technical regimes to understand grassroots innovations and natural capital in Chile Nancy Saravia and Jordi Peris. PART 3. Social Innovation and Human Capital. 7 Entrepreneurship, associativity and social technologies in rural communities: a reading from the Papal Encyclical Laudato Si in Colombia Marietta Bucheli and Juan Fernando Álvarez. 8 Cooperativism in Acapulco, México Roberto Cañedo Villarreal; María del Carmen Barragán Mendoza and Daniel Francisco Nagao Menezes. 9 Social, economic and environmental factors and the relationship with the knowledge, skills of entrepreneurs (KSE) and companies’ internal factors (CIF). Findings from collective enterprises in a context of crisis in Colombia Ana Milena Silva Valencia. 10 Fair trade focus of social joint and engine for the sustainable local development: experiences in Quito-Ecuador with the American City of Fair Trade Cesar Augusto Marcillo Vaca, Laura Angélica de la Cruz Guerrero and Jaime Ramiro Figueroa Fraga.