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Publisher: IICA
Total Pages: 144
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Risk Habitat Megacity

Risk Habitat Megacity
Author: Dirk Heinrichs
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2011-10-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3642115446

Megacity development and the inherent risks and opportunities for humans and the environment is a theme of growing urgency in the 21st century. Focusing on Latin America where urbanization is most advanced, this book studies the complexity of a ‘mega-urban system’ and explores interrelations between sectors and issues by providing an in-depths study of one particular city, Santiago de Chile. The book attempts to (i) focus on the emergence of risk in megacities by analyzing risk elements, (ii) evaluate the extent and severity of risks, (iii) develop strategies to cope with adverse risks, and (iv) to guide urban development by combining concepts with empirical evidence. Drawing on the work of an interdisciplinary and international consortium of academic and professional partners, the book is written for scholars in cross-cutting areas of urban, sustainability, hazard, governance and planning research as well as practitioners from local, regional and international organizations.

The Routledge Handbook of Regional Design

The Routledge Handbook of Regional Design
Author: Michael Neuman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2021-04-14
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1000366545

The Routledge Handbook of Regional Design explores contemporary research, policy, and practice that highlight critical aspects of strategy-making, planning, and designing for contemporary regions—including city regions, bioregions, delta regions, and their hybrids. As accelerating urbanization and globalization combine with other forces such as the demand for increasing returns on investment capital, migration, and innovation, they yield cities that are expanding over ever-larger territories. Moreover, these polycentric city regions themselves are agglomerating with one another to create new territorial mega-regions. The processes that beget these novel regional forms produce numerous and significant effects, positive and negative, that call for new modes of design and management so that the urban places and the lives and well-being of their inhabitants and businesses thrive sustainably into the future. With international case studies from leading scholars and practitioners, this book is an important resource not just for students, researchers, and practitioners of urban planning, but also policy makers, developers, architects, engineers, and anyone interested in the broader issues of urbanism.

OECD Territorial Reviews: Antofagasta, Chile 2013

OECD Territorial Reviews: Antofagasta, Chile 2013
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2013-09-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9264203915

This territorial review of a mining area in Chile focuses on economic diversification, urbanism and governance in the city of Antofafasta.

OECD Urban Policy Reviews, Chile 2013

OECD Urban Policy Reviews, Chile 2013
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2013-04-29
Genre:
ISBN: 9264191801

This report examines the economic and socio-economic trends in Chile’s urban areas; it analyses four policy areas with significant implications for national urban programming, and it examines possible approaches for revitalising the urban governance.

Tree Plantation Extractivism in Chile

Tree Plantation Extractivism in Chile
Author: Alejandro Mora-Motta
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2024-03-29
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1003857922

This book examines how extractivism transforms territories and affects the well-being of rural people, drawing on in-depth fieldwork conducted on tree plantations in Chile. The book argues that pine and eucalyptus monoculture plantations in southern Chile are a form of extractivism representing a mode of nature appropriation that captures large amounts of natural resources to produce wooden-based raw materials with little processing and an export-oriented focus. The book discusses the nexus of extractivism, territorial transformations, well-being, and emerging resistances using a participatory action research methodological approach in the Region of Los Ríos, southern Chile. The findings show how the configuration of an extractivist logging enclave generated a substantial and irrevocable reordering of human-nature relations, resulting in the territorial and ontological occupation of rural places that disrupted the fundamental human needs of peasants and indigenous people. The book maintains that Chile's green growth development approach does not challenge the consolidated tree plantation enclave controlled by large multinationals. Instead, green growth legitimises the extractivist logic. The book draws parallels with other countries and regions to contribute to wider debates surrounding these topics. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the extractive industries, development studies, political ecology, and natural resource governance.

Ecosystem Services for Spatial Planning

Ecosystem Services for Spatial Planning
Author: Silvia Ronchi
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2018-07-12
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319901850

The book investigates the relationship between ecosystem services (ES) and spatial planning, and explores potential means of integrating the two concepts to support the decision-making process. In addition, it presents case studies demonstrating the outcomes, limitations, opportunities and further new developments in ES assessment/mapping for planning support. Then it describes the “Restart from Ecosystem Services” (RES) methodology, which is aimed at integrating ES into the planning process using an ecological balance, and at promoting new planning parameters for the transformation areas. RES ensures the inclusion of ES in planning processes using the incremental measures of limiting, mitigating and compensating soil sealing and land take process promoting operational strategies in applying it. The implementation of RES is associated with strategic environmental assessment and provides valuable support in the definition of strategies across the entire planning process, especially for the evaluation of alternative scenarios.