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Paper short abstract:

Faced with the prospect of global climate crisis, humanity responds with an intense debate between "colapso" perspectives and energy transitions. Addressing processes of ecosystemic vulnerability is an urgency in the context of the global environmental crisis that affects the Earth.

Paper long abstract:

As a place of reference, we are going to take two vulnerability laboratories, two of the most biologically complex seas and with a longer history of the process of extraction of matter and energy: the Gulf of California in Mexico and the Mediterranean Sea in Europe (taking into account the coast of Andalusia). Both have in common bioclimatic similarities but with different historical paths that converge in a current reality of intense extractivism processes (sociometabolism fractures).

To this end, we are going to propose the elaboration of a research work.

a) Time line on the extractivism process in which the transfer of knowledge of land, sand and water (irrigation ditch systems, etc) has been implemented.

b) Deserts and Vulnerable Coasts and Dunes. In this section we will address the process of historical disarticulation of coastal and/or desert systems through the extension of agriculture models that result in diverse historical trends in terms of resilience in the face of vulnerability.

c) Marine Mammals (Non-Human Beings): For the case of Baja California Sur (México) we propose a study on the history of marine mammals and their interaction processes with human life in the last centuries, from hunting and the cultural representation of marine life to the current ecotourism process of whale watching that pretends to be a community strategy in the face of current vulnerability.