Introducción. What´s going on?

(..) Significant changes are taking place within the global ‘commons’ - such as climate change, changing sea levels, water availity from hydrosphere - asn within more local socio-economic, political and bio-regional circumstances. Change is global and local, and inseparable, because even local economies are caught up in the global economy and the phenomenon of globalization(...) Whichever metric is applied - from ecological footprinting to environmental space - it is abundatly clear that current rates of consumption of many resources are unsustainable. This is inextricably linked to our current systems of consumption and production. Climate change, resource depletion, the potentional instability of ecosystems and our erosion of ecological capacity are some of the manifest symptoms of these consumption trends (...)