Prologue

Abstract

This volume shares the compilation of 12 articles structured in 4 sections, which comprise in the first section of Education the article: 1) Plug-ins for the R commander package of R: an application to the calculation of probabilities; 2) Recreating alternative learning from a sociocultural context. In the second section of Social Sciences the article: 3) Guidelines of the ALBA agreement in the Grannational Company in the context of ALBA as a promoter of the multiplier effect; 4) Interculturality and Intercultural Communication: consolidating the Good Living of the Peoples; 5) Evaluation of the Municipal Investment Plan of Siuna Autonomous Region of the Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast 2016; 6) Sales system for Sanchez bookstore, Siuna 2016; 7) Social construction of disaster risk, Port-au-Prince, New Guinea, RACCS, 2013. In the third section on Environment and Natural Resources, the article: 8) Transition matrices, a tool to evaluate the sustainability of agroforestry systems; 9) Economic valuation of the demand for the environmental water service of the forest of the micro-basin Burrow, Siuna Nicaragua; 10) Structure and floristic composition of the Tropical Humid Forest of the community of San Jerónimo. In the fourth section of Agropecuaria the article: 11) Complexity and Sustainability of two agro ecosystems with cocoa, Siuna, 2017; 12) Physical-chemical state of the soil in pastures with and without fodder peanut (Arachis pintoi). URACCAN-Siuna.