David Ribó-Pérez / Alina Marín-Taurá / Candela de la Sota / Leire Pajín
The Energy Transition translates into an exponential implementation of renewable generation technologies
in the territory, and it is generating social and economic conflicts in it. These conflicts are giving rise to
citizen mobilisations and political movements against renewable energy installations (mainly Solar and
wind) in rural areas.
Eric J. Sawyer / Pedro Brandão da Silva Simões / Melissa Volpato Curi / Alexsandra Soares / Luís Tadeu Assad
This article aims to present the circular socioeconomy proposal, based on the already consolidated
concept of circular economy and the experiences of projects executed in Brazil by the Brazilian Institute
for Development and Sustainability - IABS: Mundaú Lagoon Ecosystem for Social Innovation.
The survival of the planet and global society depend on a sustainability that requires actions of self
transformation of the agents that must contribute to it (governments and public institutions, enterprises,
civil community).
