Papers by Rosalba Gómez Martínez
Journal of technology management & innovation, 2012
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Canaima National Park (CNP, Venezuela), located in the core of Guiana Shield and inhabited by the... more Canaima National Park (CNP, Venezuela), located in the core of Guiana Shield and inhabited by the Pemón indigenous people, is an area of great value due to its biological and cultural singularity. High incidence of fires, together with increased forest vulnerability to fire as a result of global climate and socio-environmental changes, have been considered threats, since they could put at risk, both ecosystems and human well-being. The conflict over fire use is exacerbated by the fact that whereas the Pemón depend for their livelihood on the use of fire, the policy of CNP government agencies has been fire exclusion (although this is not effectively enforced). The aim of this work is to present the experience gained during the development, for almost 20 years, of three participative and trans-disciplinary research-action areas: 1) long-term indigenous, fire-fighters and scientists collaborative fire experiments to study fire behavior and effects on bio-geo-chemical cycles and biodive...
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The presence of a savanna-forest vegetation mosaic in the Gran Sabana, Canaima National Park (CNP... more The presence of a savanna-forest vegetation mosaic in the Gran Sabana, Canaima National Park (CNP), has been more than an academic controversy since the 1980s through to the 2010s in Venezuela. Scientists, Park administrators and officials from institutions devoted to protect the Caroní river basin within the limits of the Park, argued that the presence of savannas under a tropical rainfall regime that could support humid forests was due to the fire practices used by the local Pemón Indigenous communities. This misconception justified applying fire suppression policies, aimed at putting out all types of fires in CNP, especially the “compulsive burning” (thus so called by some scientists) by Pemón people in forest areas. This paper describes the initiatives, pursued for more than 20 years, to consolidate intercultural and participatory fire management in the CNP, Gran Sabana, which evolved as result of several participatory action-research projects coordinated by academics, and suppo...
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This paper presents a study on knowledge management and analysis of scientific Biotechnology tren... more This paper presents a study on knowledge management and analysis of scientific Biotechnology trends in Venezuela, providing an overview of the science profile as well as regional development and its relation to issues of topics covered by Biotechnology based on the analysis of scientific publications for the period of 1995 to 2010. The survey was accomplished in database ISI/Web of Science using 60 terms selected by experts in Biotechnology and 803 register has been organized. Scientific indicators were produced using data / text mining tools. It was possible to find a greater number of scientific publications in areas such as Ecology and Health, showing a greater frequency in these terms: DNA, PCR and Biodiversity. Results pointed out The United States of America as the main foreign partner-country of scientific publications followed
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Resumen.-El estudio de la complejidad y de los sistemas complejos ha devenido, desde mediados del... more Resumen.-El estudio de la complejidad y de los sistemas complejos ha devenido, desde mediados del siglo XX, en un objeto de estudio central para la ciencia contemporánea pero también para la reflexión filosófica, ética y política. El objetivo de este trabajo es realizar una articulación crítica entre dos modos distintos y antagónicos, quizás, de entender y estudiar la complejidad: el pensamiento complejo de Edgar Morin y las así llamadas ciencias de la complejidad. El artículo explora las implicancias y desafíos epistemológicos y metodológicos que las teorías de la complejidad plantean para la investigación en ciencias sociales. Palabras clave.-pensamiento complejo, ciencias de la complejidad, epistemología, metodología, modelos basados en agentes Abstract.-Complexity and complex systems have emerged, around the middle of twentieth century, as a central research object for contemporary science, but also for philosophical, ethical and political reflection. The aim of this work is to make a critical link between two alternative ways, which also can be conceived as antagonistic, of understanding and studying complexity: complex thought proposed by Edgar Morin and the so-called complexity science. The article explores the epistemological and methodological implications and challenges of complexity theories for social sciences research.
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