Solar water heaters for vulnerable housing in Guanajuato

socio-environmental strategy?

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https://doi.org/10.32870/rvcs.v0i5.98

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vulnerable housing, sustainable dwelling, ecotechnology, solar heaters of water

Abstract

Social backwardness and climate change are accelerating the incorporation of new social practices oriented towards socio-environmental relief; moreover, green technologies offer multiple options to improve social welfare with environmental empathy. In this sense, solar heaters have shown the ability to be incorporated easily into social dynamics, as they demand little attention and provide various social, economic, and environmental bene ts. The main aim of this paper is to analyse the relevance of solar heaters in vulnerable homes in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico. Through qualitative analysis in the municipalities of Penjamo, Comonfort, Apaseo el Alto, Tierra Blanca, and San Felipe, and quantitative analysis in 46 municipalities, the social, environmental, and economic contributions of the device are shown. The main finding is the highly significant relevance of solar heaters for their universal incorporation into vulnerable dwellings as a mechanism to face the challenges of sustainability in socially disadvantaged municipalities.

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Author Biographies

Daniel Tagle Zamora, University of Guanajuato, Mexico

Doctor in Economic Sciences and full-time professor at the University of Guanajuato. Member of the National System of Researchers, level 1 and head of the Water, Energy and Climate Change academic body. He works on economic and environmental issues from the approaches of Ecological Economy, Political Economy and Political Ecology. He has been responsible for multiple research projects for academia, government and the private sector. His last two publications correspond to 2019: "Regulations, public water management and market environmentalism in Mexico: an analysis from political projects (2012-2018)", in the magazine Tecnología y Ciencias del Agua and "Transfer of ecotechnologies and their social adoption in vulnerable localities: a methodology to assess its viability”, with Lorena Álvarez, in Cienciauat magazine. His most recent book was published in Fontamara (2018), with the title “Analysis and reflections from the Ecological Economy for sustainability”, and he coordinated the book Multidimensional analysis of ecotechniques. Theoretical-practical reflections with the same publisher.  

Lorena del Carmen Álvarez Castañón, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico

Doctor of Administration with an emphasis on innovation and technology management, Computer Systems Engineer. Continuous training: Technological Specialty in Project Management, fourteen courses in innovation, development and technology transfer. Distinctions: Member of the National System of Researchers (since 2013). PRODEP profile (2013-2019). National Research Award for Academics of the National Association of Faculties and Schools of Accounting and Administration (2012). Merit for academic excellence in the doctoral program of the Autonomous University of Querétaro. Merit for academic excellence by the National Association of Faculties and Schools of Engineering. Research line: Networks, Innovation and Technology.  

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2019-08-16

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Tagle Zamora, D., & Álvarez Castañón, L. del C. (2019). Solar water heaters for vulnerable housing in Guanajuato: socio-environmental strategy?. Vivienda Y Comunidades Sustentables, (5), 11–22. https://doi.org/10.32870/rvcs.v0i5.98

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