Manuel Prieto
Biographic Data
| ID | 3698823 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manuel Prieto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Prieto |
| SIGNATURE | PRIETO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tarapacá |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3012-6598 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 164 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Integrating Remote Sensing and Indigenous Knowledge
This article presents the Zapar project, a community-commanded initiative developed in collaboration with the Atacameño Community of Toconao (northern Chile), which repositions remote sensing (RS) technologies through Indigenous governance and ethical frameworks. By embedding the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance—Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, and Ethics—into every stage of the workflow, the project transfo…
Cooking up Methods
Interannual variability of ground surface thermal regimes in Livingston and Deception islands, Antarctica (2007–2021)
The absence of vegetation in most ice‐free areas of Antarctica makes the soil surface very sensitive to atmosphere dynamics, especially in the western sector of the Antarctic Peninsula, an area within the limits of the permafrost zone. To evaluate the possible effects of regional warming on frozen soils, we conducted an analysis of ground surface temperatures (GSTs) from 2007 to 2021 from different monitoring sites in Livingston and Deception isl…
Energy efficiency in middle-income countries with DEA
Energy efficiency assessment in middle-income Latin American countries. • Clustering used to address heterogeneity among studied countries in DEA analysis. • Homogeneous groups based on economic data and total energy consumption. • No significant link between income levels and energy efficiency was found. • Costa Rica and Argentina identified as leaders in energy efficiency. Latin America and Caribbean countries are focused on meeting their 2030 …
Desestabilizando la Geografía Indígena
Mining Extractivism, Commodification of Nature and Indigenous Peasantry in the Atacama Desert
Studies on the agrarian question in Latin America have dealt with the role of capital in the area of agriculture and forestry while paying scant attention to its role in other areas, such as mining. Research on mining extractivism, for its part, has privileged recent socio-environmental conflicts without delving into the configurations of social classes and labor relations as it relates to agriculture. This article integrates these topics, analyz…
De Las Caravanas De La Vida a La Caravana De La Muerte
The (not-so-free) Chilean water model. The case of the Antofagasta Region, Atacama Desert, Chile
Conocimiento ecológico tradicional en el Altiplano chileno
El norte de Chile, y particularmente el área de Precordillera y Altiplano, presenta unas condiciones climáticas caracterizadas por la aridez, pero no exentas de eventos de precipitaciones intensas y de temperaturas muy frías. En esta área se asientan comunidades aimaras desde tiempos precolombinos que han prosperado y desarrollado actividades agropastoriles pese a estas condiciones poco favorables basándose en la observación de indicadores natura…
Reframing Pastoral Practices of Bofedal Management to Increase the Resilience of Andean Water Towers
Across the Andes, a critical challenge for mountain socioecological systems is securing water for future generations. Pastoral communities are especially vulnerable because their livelihood practices are often unseen or perceived as a threat to natural resource conservation. In addition to the challenges of climate change, socioeconomic and political processes complicate the drivers of pasture degradation and sustainable water management. Often o…
Harvesting Lithium
The geopolitics of presence and absence at the ruins of Fort Henry
In recent years, scholars have examined the non- or more-than-human world from a variety of unique positions. This article draws on contemporary archaeology and assemblage theories in geography to put forward an understanding of everyday geopolitics that includes the presence of objects in the formation of state subjectivity. Our approach, however, reveals not only this disciplining force of objects but also the ontological absences that are also…
The protection of the mountain ecosystems of the Southern Central Andes
In the Atacama Desert highlands, Aymara communities have practised herding since pre-Hispanic times. Currently, large areas of the mountainsâ ecosystems are under official protection. This situation has created tensions between Aymara herding practices and official conservation policies. In this article, we document herding practices and how they have contributed to the production of these ecosystems. We also explore several conservation policies…
Production of subterranean resources in the Atacama Desert
Nuevas aproximaciones teóricas a las regiones-commodity desde la ecología política
Las transformaciones territoriales impulsadas por la apertura de la
The dispossession of the San Pedro de Inacaliri river
That's the problem with that lake; it changes sides
Multiple dynamics produce the ecological present. For the past 30 years or more, in the southern Atacama salt pan (Salar) in northern Chile, extractive industries have been accumulating minerals and water in exhaustive quantities, taking ever more than may be regenerated. However, the exhaustion of the Salar de Atacama involves a more complex set of symptoms than demonstrable environmental depletion. Fragmented scientific knowledge of the salt pa…
Practicing costumbres and the decommodification of nature
Transando el agua, produciendo territorios e identidades indígenas
The Chilean Water Code of 1981 is a radical case of implementation of free market policies. In the Atacama Desert, the Atacameño people of the city of Calama have mobilized their indigenous identity and traditional celebrations within the context of the imposition of this code. Using a political ecology framework, in this article I examine how their claims, in opposition to the neoliberal model of water exploitation, are interwoven with the proce…
Privatizing Water in the Chilean Andes
The Chilean water model has been described as a textbook example of a free-market water system. This article contributes to the critiques of this model by showing the effect of its implementation in the Atacameño community of Chiu-Chiu, located in the Atacama Desert in the south-central Andes. In this community, the privatization of water rights ignored local water management practices that had produced a high-altitude wetland (known as a vega). …
Making environmental law for the market
As one of the earliest and deepest cases of neoliberal reform, Chile's political economic model has been the subject of extensive debate. The associated environmental law and policy that emerged in this context has, however, received little attention. The country's environmental policymaking process as well as the character and effects of the environmental regime that emerged are examined. Environmental policymaking has been tightly constrained b…
Harvesting Lithium
Making environmental law for the market
As one of the earliest and deepest cases of neoliberal reform, Chile's political economic model has been the subject of extensive debate. The associated environmental law and policy that emerged in this context has, however, received little attention. The country's environmental policymaking process as well as the character and effects of the environmental regime that emerged are examined. Environmental policymaking has been tightly constrained b…
Practicing costumbres and the decommodification of nature
The dispossession of the San Pedro de Inacaliri river
That's the problem with that lake; it changes sides
Multiple dynamics produce the ecological present. For the past 30 years or more, in the southern Atacama salt pan (Salar) in northern Chile, extractive industries have been accumulating minerals and water in exhaustive quantities, taking ever more than may be regenerated. However, the exhaustion of the Salar de Atacama involves a more complex set of symptoms than demonstrable environmental depletion. Fragmented scientific knowledge of the salt pa…
Transando el agua, produciendo territorios e identidades indígenas
The Chilean Water Code of 1981 is a radical case of implementation of free market policies. In the Atacama Desert, the Atacameño people of the city of Calama have mobilized their indigenous identity and traditional celebrations within the context of the imposition of this code. Using a political ecology framework, in this article I examine how their claims, in opposition to the neoliberal model of water exploitation, are interwoven with the proce…
Production of subterranean resources in the Atacama Desert
The geopolitics of presence and absence at the ruins of Fort Henry
In recent years, scholars have examined the non- or more-than-human world from a variety of unique positions. This article draws on contemporary archaeology and assemblage theories in geography to put forward an understanding of everyday geopolitics that includes the presence of objects in the formation of state subjectivity. Our approach, however, reveals not only this disciplining force of objects but also the ontological absences that are also…
Making environmental law for the market
As one of the earliest and deepest cases of neoliberal reform, Chile's political economic model has been the subject of extensive debate. The associated environmental law and policy that emerged in this context has, however, received little attention. The country's environmental policymaking process as well as the character and effects of the environmental regime that emerged are examined. Environmental policymaking has been tightly constrained b…
Privatizing Water in the Chilean Andes
The Chilean water model has been described as a textbook example of a free-market water system. This article contributes to the critiques of this model by showing the effect of its implementation in the Atacameño community of Chiu-Chiu, located in the Atacama Desert in the south-central Andes. In this community, the privatization of water rights ignored local water management practices that had produced a high-altitude wetland (known as a vega). …
Practicing costumbres and the decommodification of nature
Transando el agua, produciendo territorios e identidades indígenas
The Chilean Water Code of 1981 is a radical case of implementation of free market policies. In the Atacama Desert, the Atacameño people of the city of Calama have mobilized their indigenous identity and traditional celebrations within the context of the imposition of this code. Using a political ecology framework, in this article I examine how their claims, in opposition to the neoliberal model of water exploitation, are interwoven with the proce…
Nuevas aproximaciones teóricas a las regiones-commodity desde la ecología política
Las transformaciones territoriales impulsadas por la apertura de la
The dispossession of the San Pedro de Inacaliri river
That's the problem with that lake; it changes sides
Multiple dynamics produce the ecological present. For the past 30 years or more, in the southern Atacama salt pan (Salar) in northern Chile, extractive industries have been accumulating minerals and water in exhaustive quantities, taking ever more than may be regenerated. However, the exhaustion of the Salar de Atacama involves a more complex set of symptoms than demonstrable environmental depletion. Fragmented scientific knowledge of the salt pa…
The protection of the mountain ecosystems of the Southern Central Andes
In the Atacama Desert highlands, Aymara communities have practised herding since pre-Hispanic times. Currently, large areas of the mountainsâ ecosystems are under official protection. This situation has created tensions between Aymara herding practices and official conservation policies. In this article, we document herding practices and how they have contributed to the production of these ecosystems. We also explore several conservation policies…
Production of subterranean resources in the Atacama Desert
Reframing Pastoral Practices of Bofedal Management to Increase the Resilience of Andean Water Towers
Across the Andes, a critical challenge for mountain socioecological systems is securing water for future generations. Pastoral communities are especially vulnerable because their livelihood practices are often unseen or perceived as a threat to natural resource conservation. In addition to the challenges of climate change, socioeconomic and political processes complicate the drivers of pasture degradation and sustainable water management. Often o…
Harvesting Lithium
The geopolitics of presence and absence at the ruins of Fort Henry
In recent years, scholars have examined the non- or more-than-human world from a variety of unique positions. This article draws on contemporary archaeology and assemblage theories in geography to put forward an understanding of everyday geopolitics that includes the presence of objects in the formation of state subjectivity. Our approach, however, reveals not only this disciplining force of objects but also the ontological absences that are also…
The (not-so-free) Chilean water model. The case of the Antofagasta Region, Atacama Desert, Chile
Conocimiento ecológico tradicional en el Altiplano chileno
El norte de Chile, y particularmente el área de Precordillera y Altiplano, presenta unas condiciones climáticas caracterizadas por la aridez, pero no exentas de eventos de precipitaciones intensas y de temperaturas muy frías. En esta área se asientan comunidades aimaras desde tiempos precolombinos que han prosperado y desarrollado actividades agropastoriles pese a estas condiciones poco favorables basándose en la observación de indicadores natura…
De Las Caravanas De La Vida a La Caravana De La Muerte
Interannual variability of ground surface thermal regimes in Livingston and Deception islands, Antarctica (2007–2021)
The absence of vegetation in most ice‐free areas of Antarctica makes the soil surface very sensitive to atmosphere dynamics, especially in the western sector of the Antarctic Peninsula, an area within the limits of the permafrost zone. To evaluate the possible effects of regional warming on frozen soils, we conducted an analysis of ground surface temperatures (GSTs) from 2007 to 2021 from different monitoring sites in Livingston and Deception isl…
Energy efficiency in middle-income countries with DEA
Energy efficiency assessment in middle-income Latin American countries. • Clustering used to address heterogeneity among studied countries in DEA analysis. • Homogeneous groups based on economic data and total energy consumption. • No significant link between income levels and energy efficiency was found. • Costa Rica and Argentina identified as leaders in energy efficiency. Latin America and Caribbean countries are focused on meeting their 2030 …
Desestabilizando la Geografía Indígena
Mining Extractivism, Commodification of Nature and Indigenous Peasantry in the Atacama Desert
Studies on the agrarian question in Latin America have dealt with the role of capital in the area of agriculture and forestry while paying scant attention to its role in other areas, such as mining. Research on mining extractivism, for its part, has privileged recent socio-environmental conflicts without delving into the configurations of social classes and labor relations as it relates to agriculture. This article integrates these topics, analyz…
Integrating Remote Sensing and Indigenous Knowledge
This article presents the Zapar project, a community-commanded initiative developed in collaboration with the Atacameño Community of Toconao (northern Chile), which repositions remote sensing (RS) technologies through Indigenous governance and ethical frameworks. By embedding the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance—Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, and Ethics—into every stage of the workflow, the project transfo…
Cooking up Methods
Geography (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (8 works) · Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Environmental Science (6 works) · Indigenous (6 works)