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<journal-id>2218-3620</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista Universidad y Sociedad]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Universidad y Sociedad]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2218-3620</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Editorial "Universo Sur"]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S2218-36202022000200597</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Biogás y sostenibilidad en Cuba]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Biogas and sustainability in Cuba]]></article-title>
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<surname><![CDATA[Oliva Merencio]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Deny]]></given-names>
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<surname><![CDATA[Pereda Reyes]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Ileana]]></given-names>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Tecnológica de La Habana &#8220;José Antonio Echeverría&#8221;  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Cuba</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>04</month>
<year>2022</year>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>04</month>
<year>2022</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>14</volume>
<numero>2</numero>
<fpage>597</fpage>
<lpage>609</lpage>
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<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2218-36202022000200597&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2218-36202022000200597&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2218-36202022000200597&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[RESUMEN Cuba mantiene un compromiso raigal con los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible que conforman la Agenda 2030 de la ONU, y así lo ha plasmado en el Plan Nacional de Desarrollo Económico y Social del país hacia el 2030, basado en la consolidación del modelo económico social y en los lineamientos de la política económica y social del Partido y la Revolución, ratificados y verificados en el VIII Congreso del Partido Comunista de Cuba. En todos estos documentos rectores de la vida socioeconómica de la nación cubana, se establecen los ejes estratégicos y las prioridades para la consecución de un socialismo próspero y sostenible en los próximos años. Las tecnologías anaerobias han jugado, en varias partes del mundo, un rol importante de cara a alcanzar metas que caracterizan la sostenibilidad. En este trabajo se trata de demostrar el papel que pueden desarrollar las tecnologías productoras de biogás dentro del marco de sociedad socialista que Cuba ha decidido construir. Se presentan los rasgos que caracterizan las tecnologías anaerobias y su vínculo directo con el desarrollo sostenible, así como la contribución que pueden tener éstas en la solución de varios problemas que presenta nuestro país en lo energético, ambiental, social y económico.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[ABSTRACT Cuba maintains a deep commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals that make up the 2030 Agenda of the UN, and this has been reflected in the National Plan for Economic and Social Development of the country towards 2030, based on the consolidation of the social economic model and the guidelines of the economic and social policy of the Party and the Revolution, ratified and verified at the VIII Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba. In all these guiding documents of the socioeconomic life of the Cuban nation, the strategic axes and priorities for the achievement of a prosperous and sustainable socialism in the coming years are established. Anaerobic technologies have played, in several parts of the world, an important role in achieving goals that characterize sustainability. This paper attempts to demonstrate the role that biogas producing technologies can play within the framework of the socialist society that Cuba has decided to build. The features that characterize anaerobic technologies and their direct link with sustainable development are presented, as well as the contribution they can have in the solution of several problems that our country presents in the energetic, environmental, social and economic aspects.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[sostenibilidad]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[tecnologías anaerobias]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Anaerobic technologies]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[biogas]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[sustainability]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[sustainable development]]></kwd>
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