Editorial

Abstract

The Editorial of Hábitat Sustentable V13N1 cannot begin in any other way than by expressing our most sincere gratitude to Dr. Claudia Muñoz Sanguinetti for her hard work over the last eight years. Thanks to her work, the journal has been included in important indexations such as SCOPUS, SCIELO, EIHPLUS, and EMERGING SOURCES CITATION INDEX (ESCI-WOS).

The constant efforts of Dr. Muñoz, together with the editorial team, the authors, the reviewers, and the interest of the readers, have allowed us to improve the impact of Hábitat Sustentable. This year 2023, we are pleased to announce that it has entered the third quartile in SJR’s Architecture area (Scimago Journal & Country Rank). We hope that, with everyone’s joint work, the journal will continue to improve its impact and reach.

As new editors, we wish to emphasize our commitment to the importance of research in the fields of design and construction of the built environment, from a local perspective and close to the reality of the Global South.

The Global South is a concept developed by the German economist Willy Brandt in the 1980s. It is used to describe the economic, political, and social differences between the countries of the northern hemisphere (known as the Global North) and a group of countries and regions located mainly in the southern hemisphere, especially in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.