Director of the UC Center for Local Development located in the Interdisciplinary Complex for Sustainable Development, Villarrica Campus. He is an Associate Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, specifically at the Villarrica Campus, the Institute for Sustainable Development, and the Institute of Urban and Territorial Studies. He is an Associate Researcher at the Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Studies (CIIR). Since 2019, he has been a member of the Geography and Urbanism Evaluation Group for the Fondecyt Program at the National Agency for Research and Development of Chile.
He is a designer from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Dundee.
RESEARCH AREAS
He specializes in epistemologies of sustainability, planning for sustainable local development, collaborative governance processes, education for sustainability, and the theory and praxis of ecological design.
LATEST 10 PUBLICATIONS
Ibarra, J. T., Riquelme-Maulén, W., Bañales-Seguel, C., Orrego, G., & Salazar, G. (2024). While clearing the forests: The social–ecological memory of trees in the Anthropocene. Ambio, 53(12), 1783–1796. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-024-02008-5
Salazar, G., Acuña, V. R., & Valera, L. (2023). From the Utopia of Sustainable Development to Sustainable Topoi. Environmental Ethics, 45(1), 49-70. https://doi.org/10.5840/enviroethics202333051
Bergamini, K., Ojeda, C. G., Gutiérrez, P., Salazar, G., & Curillán, C. (2023). Chilean institutional policies and multi-level agents: Challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic and carbon footprint. Frontiers In Communication, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2023.1059053
Núñez, A., Maulén, W. R., Salazar, G., Maturana, F., & Morales, M. (2022). Dinámicas urbanas en territorio indígena: transformación en las formas de habitar mapuche en el lof Rengalil, Labranza (región de la Araucanía, Chile). Revista de Estudios Sociales, 80, 75-96. https://doi.org/10.7440/res80.2022.05
Ibarra, J., Petitpas, R., Barreau, A., Caviedes, J., Cortés, J., Orrego, G., Salazar, G. & Altamirano, T. (2022). «Becoming tree, becoming memory: Social-ecological fabrics in Pewen (Araucaria araucana) landscapes of the southern Andes». En The Cultural Value of Trees: Folk Value and Biocultural Conservation, EDS by Jeffrey Wall. Routledge. https://www.academia.edu/attachments/84730580/download_file?st=MTY2MDc0NzE3OCwxODEuMTYxLjE2LjE4Ng%3D%3D&s=swp-splash-paper-cover
Salazar, G., & González, P. (2021). New Mobility Paradigm and Indigenous Construction of Places: Physical and Symbolic Mobility of Aymara Groups in the Urbanization Process, Chile. Sustainability, 13(8), 4382. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13084382
Vergara, L., & Salazar, G. (2021). Non-metropolitan cities in Latin American urban studies: between ‘trickle-down urban theory’ and ‘singularisation theory’. IDPR. International Development Planning Review/International Development Planning Review, 43(3), 321-344. https://doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2020.18
Salazar, G. & Riquelme, W. (2020) THE SPACE-TIME COMPRESSION OF INDIGENOUS TOPONYMY: THE CASE OF MAPUCHE TOPONYMY IN CHILEAN NORPATAGONIA. Geographical Review, 112(5), 641-666. https://doi.org/10.1080/00167428.2020.1839898
Salazar, G., Riquelme, W. & Zúñiga, P. (2020) ¿Indígena campesino o indígena urbano? Aproximaciones desde los procesos de movilidad mapuche en la ciudad intermedia de Temuco (Chile). Antipoda, 40 53-78 (Scopus)
Valera, L. & Salazar, G. (2020) Challenging Sustainability: From deconstruction to reconstruction. Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, vol. 16 (1) 298-315 (Scopus)