The History of Environmental Degradation in Mar Menor: A Case Study

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Juan Manuel Zaragoza is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Murcia (Spain). From 2013 to 2015 he was a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary University of London and from 2015 to 2016 a BBVA Foundation Leonardo Fellow. His research has focused on the history of experience and emotions specifically around the experiences of discomfort and well-being. He is PI of the project Climate crisis mental health and well-being in the Anthropocene and founding director of the research collective ehCOLAB (https://www.um.es/ehcolab/) interested in the development of the blue humanities.David Soto is a Full Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Murcia and the Head of the Department of Philosophy at the same university. He has also been a Full Professor at the Universidad del Pacífico in Ecuador. His work focuses on the study of the philosophical and political dimensions of the crisis of the 1930s and 1970s especially in Spain and Latin America. He has also worked on environmental ethics and environmental public policies in the Southeast Pacific editing five collective books with the Universidad del Pacífico the last one entitled: La Declaración de Santiago de 1952: una alianza del Pacífico Sudeste sobre políticas marítimas y ambientales. Some of his most recent publications are Filosofía política y ética: claves conceptuales para comprender el presente; Políticas del terror: subjetividad neoliberal y populismo autoritario en: Turpín Saorín J. (ed.). Antropología en devenir político (2023).Malena Cantero graduated in Philosophy from the University of Murcia (Spain). She has completed a Master's degree in Philosophy Research with a specialization in Contemporary Aesthetics as well as another Master's degree in Teacher Training both at the University of Murcia. Her current area of interest is the relationship between climate change and mental health through a gender perspective.