We present the results of a Sistematización de Experiencias/Systematization of Experiences (SdE) among twelve researchers from Latin America about environmental communication research carried out across the region. The purpose was to characterize the state of the field, providing a basis for identifying common axes among diverse approaches, problems, and epistemological perspectives of the academic communities, which make environmental communication a situated construct relevant to the Latin American context and its socioenvironmental problems. This process includes a critical analysis of the opportunities for development and the challenges facing this emerging academic field, together with a contextualized assessment of the region's place on the international stage, highlighting the tensions and necessary dialogs between countries in the Global North and South. As a result, the ethical-political background of certain lines of research related to issues of conflict and social justice is recognized, as well as the need to consolidate the field in Latin America. We conclude that the regional experience has the potential to critically contribute to the field in the international arena, as a proposal desde lo propio (from within) to other regions of the Global South and North, with whom it is necessary to establish a constructive dialog.
Takahashi et al. (Fri,) studied this question.