Coastal commons in southern Chile: current state, networks, and community cares, such as local contributions to climate justice

Bárbara Jerez Henríquez (), Beatriz Eugenia Cid-Aguayo (), Julien Vanhulst (), Francisco Bastías-Mercado (), Eduardo Letelier (), Verónica Oliveros (), Alfonso Henríquez (), Noelia Carrasco (), Francisco Ther-Ríos (), César Pérez (), Michelle Berndt (), Carolina Ramírez (), Javier Sepúlveda (), Eduardo Meza (), Diego Oñate () and Daniel Erbo ()
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Bárbara Jerez Henríquez: Universidad de Concepción
Beatriz Eugenia Cid-Aguayo: Universidad de Concepción
Julien Vanhulst: Centro de Estudios Urbano-Territoriales (UCM) y Programa Sustenable Transformation
Francisco Bastías-Mercado: Universidad de Concepción
Eduardo Letelier: Universidad Católica del Maule
Verónica Oliveros: Universidad de Concepción
Alfonso Henríquez: Universidad de Concepción
Noelia Carrasco: Universidad de Concepción
Francisco Ther-Ríos: CEDER, Universidad de Los Lagos
César Pérez: Universidad de Los Lagos
Michelle Berndt: Universidad de Los Lagos
Carolina Ramírez: Universidad de Concepción
Javier Sepúlveda: Universidad de Concepción
Eduardo Meza: Centro de Estudios Urbano-Territoriales (UCM) y Programa Sustenable Transformation
Diego Oñate: Universidad de Concepción
Daniel Erbo: Universidad de Concepción

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 2025, vol. 30, issue 6, No 10, 25 pages

Abstract: Abstract Coastal territories from central-southern Chile show high climate vulnerability mainly caused by the fragility of its ecosystem conditions, dispossession, and degradation that affect its main commons. In this context, some communities develop care strategies rooted in traditional knowledge and collective experiences. This document exposes an analysis of the commons to face climate change and its strategies of care, understood within the framework of climate justice. An interdisciplinary analysis of the current state of the commons is developed, based on community evaluation criteria and biophysical parameters. This was done through a transdisciplinary collaborative research process including interviews, analysis workshops, and social cartography in three territories of central-southern Chile in 2022. The results show that it is not possible to talk about isolated common goods; instead, we should consider heterogeneous networks of commons, which extend from marine networks to networks of the Coastal Range, each as a socio-natural system resignified by the communities because of its economical, socioecological, and patrimonial importance. These networks face high climate vulnerability due to conditions of appropriation, overexploitation, and degradation, which worsen due to the friction between the property systems and governances in which they are situated. Communities take care of their commons using different care strategies, which contribute to cocreate scenarios of climate justice that strengthen the exercise of territorial human rights. This document concludes by stating the importance of considering the territorial conditions and the care of the commons as a field of local answers and opportunities to strengthen plural governance processes in coastal territories with strong climate vulnerability.

Keywords: Coastal Territories; Commons Networks; Cares; Local Knowledge; Climate Justice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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