«Un hombre se propone la tarea de dibujar el mundo.»Jorge Luis Borges, El hacedor (1960)
Mario Daniel Muñoz Ríos
I am a PhD candidate in Social Sciences at the University of Guadalajara and completed a research stay at UCLA. I study industrialization, labor, environmental harm, and local development from an environmental justice perspective, with particular interest in the relationships between work, territory, and community well-being.
I use mixed methods, spatial analysis, and socioeconomic data to study industrial communities in Mexico and the United States.
El oxímoron del desarrollo sostenible: El Salto, Jalisco como contradicción entre trabajo y naturaleza
[The Oxymoron of Sustainable Development: El Salto, Jalisco, as an Expression of the Contradiction between Labor and Nature]
Examines how the Sustainable Development Goals on clean water and decent work apply in El Salto. Between 2010 and 2024 formal employment grew about 2.6-fold, but informality and industrial emissions grew too. The article argues that these goals cannot account for what is happening in the municipality.