Exploring local innovation as a key process in the transformation of the institutions of the new millennium

Abstract

The incompatibility between energy policies and environmental policies characterizes the contemporary history of public resources management, this particularly in Latin America. This article compares the challenges of national energy politics with those from environmental politics, in order to put forth innovative governance pathways, which consider articulations of these policies in a polycentric context focus on a local global impact. From a methodological perspective this text presents the “Multi-level Perspective Approach -MLP”, besides the model of “Strategic Niche Management -SNM” and the concept of “innovative governance”, considering them as inputs for the implementation of these synergies. This article concludes exploring the articulation between governmental sectors, technological niches and the traditional ecological knowledge-TEK as a key coalition to promote the inter sectoral articulation of the mentioned policies.