Fernández Carrasco, P., Pozo Menéndez, E., 2013. Chilean Caletas: more than artisan fishing villages. As is widely known, Chile is a country characterized by its vast expanse of coastline, one of the main factors that have shaped Chilean culture throughout its history. Local people have been exploiting marine resources since records began and, currently, fishing is still one of the strongest economic sectors. Artisan fishing villages, are placed in this context. In 1998, more than four hundred fishing villages were legally recognized along the coast. Since then, they have been gradually regularized in order to protect fishermen's activity as well as to ensure the development of marine environment. In the last years, these villages have experienced a huge population growth, despite local infrastructures and equipments showing a lack of basic services and an unstable situation which could be categorised as poverty. The main objective of this research work is to analyse every fishing village by using particular and global approaches. This will lead us to the formulation and compilation of several development projects in order to allow the fishing villages to be considered as a main factor in coastal management, policy and planning. In addition, we have started the creation of a dynamic database that will offer a great opportunity to share information at different levels, by means of connecting local people with experts related in many different fields. Thus, an alternative answer to coastal development is proposed, including the three main sustainable characters: society, environment and economy.

This study evaluates the potential of motorhome tourism to catalyze socioeconomic development in rural municipalities of southeastern Spain (provinces of Jaén, Granada, and Almería). Addressing the critical challenge of rural depopulation in “Empty Spain” (España Vaciada), the research employs a mixed-methods approach covering the period 2022–2024. The methodology is centered on a two-tier empirical design: (i) a provincial-level analysis of eight municipalities, and (ii) an in-depth case study of Vélez-Blanco. A fundamental component of the research was the direct ethnographic validation and field audit conducted by the Fernández-Dutto family during an extensive journey from March to September 2025. By staying two to three nights at each location, the researchers performed in situ assessments of infrastructure quality and bioclimatic efficiency, providing a primary “ground-truth” dataset. These observations calibrate the longitudinal data obtained from the National Statistics Institute (INE) and digital platforms, which were utilized strictly as secondary screening tools for site selection. The results indicate statistically significant correlations between infrastructure quality, proximity to heritage attractions, and increases in local tourism-related expenditure. The study highlights how experiential fieldwork captures nuances in traveler behavior and site functionality that official records often overlook. The paper concludes by identifying strategic investment opportunities, specifically recommending the development of a motorhome service area in the municipality of María (María-Los Vélez area). This intervention is proposed as a vital catalyst to complete the regional tourism circuit and foster economic resilience in the heart of Almería’s rural landscape.

Mayén, N., Fernández, P. and del Campo, J.M., Almazán J.L., 2013. Small Projects can make big changes in our coast. El Salvador Central America. Under a General objective to design an optimal and integrated use of the resources by reusing and recycling them to improve the quality life for people with low economic power who lives in the coastal area of El Salvador, we have arrived also to different Specific objectives: to create a simple water collection system, to reuse wastewater, to get the most out of the heat generated by de designing of a green stove, to use plastic bottles as a garbage containers and use them as green bricks, to get energy independence for people who lives in the coastal area of El Salvador, to design a rain water injection system, as a contribution to small river basin and to maintain a friendly and clean environmental coastal areas. The experiments, made in a coastal house in San Salvador, have got a reduction of electricity consumption by 54.75KWH equivalent of 57% compared with periods before the experiment. Considering that in El Salvador there are 957,480 families with a consumption around 100KWH per month, and if the measures made in the house model are applied in all these houses with at least 80%; it could be saved 503,251488 KWH in a year, in addition 357,308 tons of CO2 will be not send to the atmosphere and the families will save in total USD$149,572,633. Developing the measures proposed in the scope of this document, with small project will make a big change in each family of the coastal area of El Salvador.