SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, ENVIRONMENT AND KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS, DESARROLLO SUSTENTABLE, MEDIO AMBIENTE Y REDES DE CONOCIMIENTO

Maria Antonieta Monserrat Vera Munoz, Rafaela Martinez Mendez, Gerardo Serafin Vera Munoz and Armando Lagunés Blanco

Revista Global de Negocios, 2016, vol. 4, issue 6, 81-93

Abstract: The environment and the need to cater Sustainability Climate Change (CC), meaning the "change directly or indirectly attributable to human activity climate that alters the composition of the global atmosphere" (The Nature Conservancy et al., 2009: 11). Knowledge networks understood as a group of individuals seeking a common interest, have become among the cooperative support of Puebla Cuetzlan practices to preserve their harvest of honey and coffee cultivation by hand, but in search of sustainability and environmental conservation. Rural cooperatives referred to have as part of everyday activities actions for the environment and sustainability, so that the objective of the study is to identify the intervention of knowledge networks among cooperatives for development of those activities that have them allowed to remain on the market and become a reference for various studies. Methodically gathering information field is performed with a questionnaire administered to 100 cooperatives, whose results show how sustainable practices can be made to support the care of natural resources and overall environmental independently with the support of social networks. Checking the relevance of the practices by the union of cooperativesin the use of "Cleaner Production" as part of the principle of sustainability of human activities in which the economy, welfare and the environment form a whole

Keywords: Sustainable Development; Environment; Knowledge Networks and Cooperative Societies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M1 M11 M14 M19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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