The article presents a review of the research on green hydrogen from the social sciences, identifying its main lines of research, its problems, and the relevant challenges due to the benefits and impacts that this energy vector has on energy transitions and climate change. The review analyzes a corpus of 78 articles indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) and SCOPUS, published between 1997 and 2022. The review identified three research areas related to green hydrogen and the challenges for the social sciences in the future: (a) risks, socio-environmental impacts, and public perception; (b) public policies and regulation and (c) social acceptance and willingness to use associated technologies. Our results show that Europe and Asia lead the research on green hydrogen from the social sciences. Also, most of the works focus on the area of public policy and regulation and social acceptance. Instead, the field of social perception of risk is much less developed. We found that little research from the social sciences has focused on assessments of the social and environmental impacts of hydrogen on local communities and indigenous groups, as well as the participation of local authorities in rural locations. Likewise, there are few integrated studies (technical and social) that would allow a better assessment of hydrogen and cleaner energy transitions. Finally, the lack of familiarity with this technology in many cases constitutes a limitation when evaluating its acceptance.

This article presents a systematic review of sustainable watershed management at the international level. Based on the risk regulation approach, this review approaches the specific gaps in the literature related to relevant issues outlining the international freshwater resources socio-environmental regulation issue, especially in regards to its sociological dimensions: the organizational capabilities of agents involved in regulatory efforts, issue-implicit challenges, and regulatory effort-generated socio-environmental risks. The study identifies the reflexive components of the involved institutions, outlines the deployment of organizational processes in normative regulatory components, and explores the modalities for addressing change and complexity in the regulatory field. A corpus of 64 articles published in the Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus databases between 2021 and 2024 was analyzed, and the following findings are demonstrated: (1) regulatory requirements emerge across the three dimensions due to sociological factors, with the need for broad-ranging coordination capacities and socio-technical improvements highlighted, (2) while high political–technical capacities are exhibited by regulatory agents in the field of study, significant regulatory challenges persist, complicating the sustainable management of watersheds, and (3) decision-making based on socio-environmental risks is deemed feasible within the field of study, enabling advancements in techno-scientific and socio-political areas, although achieving this is considered challenging. It is concluded that sustainable watershed management can be better understood when the risk-based approach is used as an explanatory framework, particularly in priority areas for addressing—and regulating—the global and local dilemmas involved in governing water resources. As this field has been scarcely examined from this perspective, a series of potential research avenues with substantial scope are faced by the social sciences. Socio-environmental challenges related to water should be rigorously analyzed in future studies through innovative approaches, with the social components of the issue prioritized.

Durante las últimas décadas, las universidades latinoamericanas han profundizado su integración al sistema universitario mundial, lo que ha implicado transformaciones radicales y tendencias a la complejización. El presente ensayo concibe la universidad como un sistema organizacional complejo, cuya reproducción tiene lugar mediante la toma de decisiones. Desde esta perspectiva se plantea que, ante un contexto de creciente complejidad e incertidumbre como el latinoamericano, la observación del entorno a través del análisis institucional comprende una herramienta fundamental para neutralizar potenciales procesos de desintegración que amenacen a la universidad. Se considera, en este sentido, que: (1) los modelos de gestión tradicional asumen un entorno estable en el futuro, (2) tales esquemas disminuyen la capacidad de la universidad de reaccionar a cambios externos, pudiendo, además, derivar en la rutinización del proceso de toma de decisiones, (3) ante la incertidumbre, la posibilidad de adaptarse/responder al entorno resulta fundamental para la sustentabilidad institucional, y (4) aquella capacidad solo existe si se incorpora el análisis del entorno al proceso de toma de decisiones. La argumentación se desarrolla tomando como caso de análisis el subsistema universitario chileno. Se concluye que para operar en el contexto actual, la universidad requiere transitar hacia modelos de gestión basada en evidencia, en cuanto entregan mayor capacidad para reducir la complejidad creciente del entorno general y competitivo de la universidad

La comprensión de las ideologías lingüísticas es fundamental para la descripción de los procesos de conservación y desplazamiento de las lenguas minorizadas. Este trabajo revisa, de manera sistemática, las publicaciones indexadas en Web of Science que abordan el tópico de las ideologías lingüísticas sobre lenguas indígenas americanas, con el propósito de describir las líneas de investigación, las orientaciones metodológicas, los enfoques teóricos, las tipologías y las conclusiones más relevantes que presentan para el campo. La revisión abarca un rango temporal que se extiende desde 1980 hasta 2016, y produjo 25 artículos. Los resultados muestran que, en las publicaciones, hay una orientación metodológica exclusivamente cualitativa, mientras que, en lo conceptual, se observa una extensa taxonomía de ideologías, que incluye diversas denominaciones para un mismo marco ideológico. También se evidencia la relevancia de las ideologías lingüísticas en procesos como la construcción de la identidad, la revitalización lingüística, la planificación, la valoración de las lenguas, la resistencia identitaria-cultural, entre otros procesos sociolingüísticos y socioculturales.

Este trabajo indaga en las ideologías lingüísticas plasmadas en las obras de los frailes capuchinos alemanes que misionaron en el territorio mapuche desde 1895. A partir de una selección de enunciados expresados en sus obras, damos cuenta de la representación que construyeron de la lengua mapuche y su sociedad durante el período de castellanización formal del territorio y la consolidación del Estado-Nación en la región. Se sostiene que la trayectoria del mapuzugun se ha definido por campañas de estigmatización a través de la exportación y apropiación de dogmas eurocéntricos dominantes propios de la época, los cuales se han proyectado hasta la actualidad. Se concluye que el discurso de los misioneros capuchinos se enmarca en el pensamiento de las lenguas en peligro a través del discurso de la desaparición de la lengua y la cultura.

Along the last decade, a series of radical changes have been taking place in the internal and external environment of the global higher education system, which have increased the challenges for the adaptation of the management systems of this kind of institutions. This article conducts a bibliometric analysis of the research about higher education management published between 2011 and 2020, from a mixed method approach. Based on a corpus of 936 articles and reviews indexed in Scopus, an author’s keywords co-occurrence analysis has been carried out to create a science map. On a quantitative level, this procedure made it possible to identify the frequency of each concept, their mutual links, and their grouping into clusters. Subsequently, a qualitative analysis was made to describe the central themes of each cluster. A structure of eleven clusters or thematic lines was found, this thematic diversity is coherent with the highly complex nature of the internal and external environment of higher education management systems and the recurrent changes they have faced in recent years. In this way, the paper systematizes the findings and problems relevant to the field, and, simultaneously, provides insights into the areas on which future reviews of the state of the art should focus, and orientations to guide the problematization of the most pertinent discussions at this stage of the field’s development.