This FONDECYT project, led by Paola Bolados (U. Valparaíso), also includes the participation of CEAS Professor, Mayarí Castillo, as a co-researcher.

The research project aims to analyze the conditions that favour the conformation of sacrifice zones as key expressions of socioecological inequalities, as well as the cases of transition to "recovery zones", via the establishment of participative governance criteria and wellbeing, whose goals are the proposal of indicators of socioenvironmental poberty in the port-bays, places where these degraded zones are located, and oficially known as "sacrifice zones".