Download or read book Planeamiento urbano sostenible para la adaptaci n del cambio clim tico written by Oswaldo López Bernal and published by Universidad del Valle. This book was released on 2010-05-26 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esta investigación se concentra en profundizar el concepto de desarrollo sostenible y la viabilidad de orientar la ciudad hacia lineamientos de planeamiento urbano sostenible, que garanticen la adaptación al cambio climático para la prevención de desastres socio-naturales. El objetivo final es demostrar si dichos lineamientos aplicados a dos objetivos de estudio, estos ayudarían o no al mejoramiento de la sustentabilidad en la ciudad y, por ende, a la mitigación y prevención de desastres socio-naturales. Esta investigación desarrolló un estudio comparativo entre dos ciudades con condiciones urbanas totalmente diferentes pero en un contexto de amenazas socio-naturales similares, los cuales generan periódicamente desastres socio-naturales por el desbordamiento de los ríos que las cruzan, produciendo grandes inundaciones en torno a las ciudades. Al analizar dos realidades urbanas, una en Canadá, y otra en Colombia, se demostró que los lineamientos de planeamiento urbano sostenible pueden ser utilizados como marco general, adaptados a dos realidades diferentes para lograr escenarios de sostenibilidad urbana. Es importante resaltar que esta investigación contó con el apoyo económico del gobierno de Canadá a través del programa faculty research program, de esta forma permitió analizar una realidad urbana tan lejana a la esta como es el río San Lorenzo en la ciudad de Montreal, Canadá, y compararla con otras investigaciones realizadas en Colombia, específicamente el río Yumbo en la ciudad de Yumbo. De esta forma se mantuvo un condicionante similar como es el fenómeno del cambio climático, analizando cómo impacta ambientalmente a dos ciudades en dos territorios tan diferentes. Esta investigación desarrolló un estudio comparativo entre dos ciudades con condiciones urbanas totalmente diferentes pero en un contexto de amenazas socio-naturales similares, los cuales generan periódicamente desastres socio-naturales por el desbordamiento de los ríos que las cruzan, produciendo grandes inundaciones en torno a las ciudades. Al analizar dos realidades urbanas, una en Canadá, y otra en Colombia, se demostró que los lineamientos de planeamiento urbano sostenible pueden ser utilizados como marco general, adaptados a dos realidades diferentes para lograr escenarios de sostenibilidad urbana. Es importante resaltar que esta investigación contó con el apoyo económico del gobierno de Canadá a través del programa faculty research program, de esta forma permitió analizar una realidad urbana tan lejana a la esta como es el río San Lorenzo en la ciudad de Montreal, Canadá, y compararla con otras investigaciones realizadas en Colombia, específicamente el río Yumbo en la ciudad de Yumbo. De esta forma se mantuvo un condicionante similar como es el fenómeno del cambio climático, analizando cómo impacta ambientalmente a dos ciudades en dos territorios tan diferentes. Es importante resaltar que esta investigación contó con el apoyo económico del gobierno de Canadá a través del programa faculty research program, de esta forma permitió analizar una realidad urbana tan lejana a la esta como es el río San Lorenzo en la ciudad de Montreal, Canadá, y compararla con otras investigaciones realizadas en Colombia, específicamente el río Yumbo en la ciudad de Yumbo. De esta forma se mantuvo un condicionante similar como es el fenómeno del cambio climático, analizando cómo impacta ambientalmente a dos ciudades en dos territorios tan diferentes.

Download or read book Perspectivas del medio ambiente en la Amazon a written by and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 2009 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Modelo conceptual del Sistema de Informaci n Ambiental Territorial de la Amazonia colombiana SIAT AC written by Armando González Romero and published by Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Científicas "SINCHI". This book was released on 2007-06-13 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esta obra se presenta en diez capítulos, los primeros cinco hacen referencia a los marcos institucional, jurídico, teórico, regional y conceptual, respectivamente. Se destaca de lo institucional,capitulo 1, todos los avances que existen sobre el tema de GIA desde lo global, hasta lo regional de Amazonia colombiana, pasando por el ámbito nacional; en lo jurídico, capitulo 2, se evidencian los diferentes instrumentos que se tienen como soporte para el desarrollo de los procesos de gestión de información ambiental; en lo teórico, contenido en el capitulo 3, se relacionan las aproximaciones sistémica y ecosistemita como soporte teórico del SIAT-AC, y también se hace una aproximación a la definición del desarrollo sostenible, la planificación del territorio y la gestión ambiental, entendiendo que son aspectos centrales que se estarán apoyando con este proceso del SIAT-AC. En el capitulo 5 se trata en detalle la conceptualización del modelo del sistema, y se establecen la definición, misión, visión, objetivos, principios, marco funcional, y análisis de la cadena de valor de la información del sistema bajo el enfoque del desarrollo sostenible. Lo relacionado con el alcance del SIAT-AC, se presenta en el numeral 5.9, entre otras cosas se describen los principales problemas identificados en la región relacionados con la GIA, se presentan y analizan las preguntas básicas, sobre las condiciones ambientales regionales, para las cuales se propone que el sistema apoye la obtención de sus respuestas, se hace una aproximación a los requerimientos de datos e información, los insumos de información, las herramientas necesarias para el sistema asociándolas a los actores y roles de estos, y se propone una priorización de fases para desarrollarlas; de igual manera se exponen aspectos como los beneficios que se obtendrán con el sistema funcionando, o los riesgos que puede tener su desarrollo, destacando los factores críticos de éxito y los requerimientos. La propuesta de modelo organizacional del SIAT-AC como red de información, se presenta en el capitulo6, se hace énfasis en los aspectos que se deben tener en cuenta para que la red interinstitucional regional que soporte el diseño, desarrollo y operación del sistema tenga éxito. Finalmente los capítulos 7 y 8, hacen referencia al planteamiento técnico, el primero, y al plan estratégico, el segundo. Con relación a lo técnico se plantean los principios de diseño, la arquitectura lógica y física. En lo que tiene que ver con el plan estratégico se hace énfasis en tres aspectos: desarrollo, implementación y sostenibilidad del proceso SIAT-AC.

Download or read book Descentralizaci n y gesti n ambiental written by César A. Quiroz Peralta and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Conflictos y vac os en la aplicaci n de la legislaci n ind gena y ambiental durante el proceso de ordenamiento territorial de dos municipios en la Selva Amaz nica Colombiana written by Margarita Rosa Santodomingo Lopera and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lineamientos conceptuales y metodol gicos del sistema de indicadores ambientales Amazonia en el marco del programa regional de monitoreo ambiental written by Mario Orlando López Castro and published by Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Científicas "SINCHI". This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El Instituto Sinchi presenta en este documento, los lineamientos conceptuales y metodológicos para la conformación de un Sistema de Indicadores Ambientales Amazonia como parte integral del Programa Regional de Monitoreo Ambiental y como producto de la ejecución de uno de los componentes del Proyecto: Consolidación del Sistema de Información Ambiental Territorial SIAT, Priorizando Componente SIB (Primera Fase), Amazonia Colombiana, que contó con el apoyo financiero de la Embajada Real de los Países Bajos.

Download or read book Planificaci n ambiental y ordenamiento territorial written by Martha Cárdenas and published by Cerec. This book was released on 1998 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Medell n environment urbanism society written by Michel Hermelin Arbaux and published by Universidad EAFIT. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent times what has become known as "the case of Medellín " has generated a growing interest in the international community. These urban transformation that Medellín has experimented have become a focus of attention and reference for experts in many fields, around the world. The book ́Medellin: Environment, Urbanism and Society ́, that now published the Center for Urban and Environmental Studies, Urbam, of EAFIT University is a testimony of the value given by our culture to the accomplishments of the city, to the idea of the public sphere and the growing relationship between the technical sphere and the political sphere, understood in the broad sense as a form of disciplinary knowledge and construction of civil society. This book brings together a knowledge of the city from multiple perspectives; knowledge that is, without any doubt, impressive for its extension and profoundity, as well as for its capacity to combine objective data with conceptual reflections about the scope and impact of the different perspectives concerning the theme of urban transformation and the different actors that have participated in such processes. The book weaves a broad net over the city, its history and development, adopting a multidisciplinary vision. I think that this will be the first step in creating a speech that might finally liberate itself from the strict disciplinary boundaries, building a trans-disciplinary perspective that can amplify the urban dimension of the city. This is the beginning of a profound and complex reflection that is, at the same time, a project of knowledge and an instrument of action and participation.

Download or read book Aspectos ambientales para el ordenamiento territorial del occidente del departamento del Caquet written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A New roadmap for the Man and the Biosphere MAB Programme and its World Network of Biosphere Reserves written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Land Tenure and Rural Development written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by FAO. This book was released on 2002 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication deals with key issues in land tenure, especially as they relate to food insecurity and rural development situations. Land tenure issues are frequently ignored in rural development interventions, with often long-lasting, negative results. This guide is designed to assist technical officers in governments and civil society in understanding why and how land tenure issues should be considered in rural development projects. It analyses important contexts such as environmental degradation, gender discrimination, and conflicts, where land tenure is currently of critical concern.

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Download or read book Sustainability Assessment written by Alan James Bond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Currently the writing on the subject is limited and comprises, for the most part, guidance documents and completed assessments.

Download or read book Global Investment Competitiveness Report 2017 2018 written by World Bank Group and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Global Investment Competitiveness report presents new insights and evidence on drivers of foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries, and FDI’s role in development. The report’s survey of 750 executives of multinational corporations finds that a business-friendly legal and regulatory environment is a key driver of investment decisions in developing countries, along with political stability, security, and macroeconomic conditions. The report’s topic-specific chapters explore the potential of FDI to create new growth opportunities for local firms, assess the power of tax holidays and other fiscal incentives to attract FDI, analyze characteristics of FDI originating in developing countries, and examine the experience of foreign investors in countries affected by conflict and fragility. Three key features of this Global Investment Competitiveness report distinguish it from other publications on FDI. First, its insights are based on a combination of first-hand perspectives of investors, extensive analysis of available data and evidence, and international good practices in investment policy design and implementation. Secondly, rather than exploring broad FDI trends, the report provides detailed and unique analysis of FDI depending on its motivation, sector, geographic origin and destination, and phase of investment. Thirdly, the report offers practical and actionable recommendations to policymakers in developing countries wishing to reform their business climates for increased investment competitiveness. As such, the report is meant to complement other knowledge products of the World Bank Group focused even more explicitly on country-level data, detailed reform diagnostics, and presentation of best practices. We are confident this report will bring value and fresh perspectives to a variety of audiences. To governments and policymakers, including investment promotion professionals, the report offers direct insights into the role of government policies and actions in investors’ decision-making. To foreign investors and site location consultants, the report provides information on FDI trends and drivers across sectors and geographies. For academic audiences, the new datasets on investment incentives and FDI motivations enables opportunities for additional research and analysis. Lastly, for development assistance providers and other stakeholders, the report highlights key approaches for maximizing FDI’s benefits for development.

Download or read book Tropical Stream Ecology written by David Dudgeon and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tropical Stream Ecology describes the main features of tropical streams and their ecology. It covers the major physico-chemical features, important processes such as primary production and organic-matter transformation, as well as the main groups of consumers: invertebrates, fishes and other vertebrates. Information on concepts and paradigms developed in north-temperate latitudes and how they do not match the reality of ecosystems further south is expertly addressed. The pressing matter of conservation of tropical streams and their biodiversity is included in almost every chapter, with a final chapter providing a synthesis on conservation issues. For the first time, Tropical Stream Ecology places an important emphasis on viewing research carried out in contributions from international literature. First synthetic account of the ecology of all types of tropical streams Covers all of the major tropical regions Detailed consideration of possible fundamental differences between tropical and temperate stream ecosystems Threats faced by tropical stream ecosystems and possible conservation actions Descriptions and synstheses life-histories and breeding patterns of major aquatic consumers (fishes, invertebrates)

Download or read book EBOOK Sustaining Change in Universities written by Burton Clark and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2004-09-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ·What can be done to ensure universities are well positioned to meet the challenges of the fast moving world of the 21st century? This is the central question addressed by Burton R. Clark in this significant new volume which greatly extends the case studies and concepts presented in his 1998 book, Creating Entrepreneurial Universities. The new volume draws on case studies of fourteen proactive institutions in the UK, Europe, Australia, Latin America, Africa, and the United States that extend analysis into the early years of the twenty-first century. The cumulative international coverage underpins a more fully developed conceptual framework offering insight into ways of initiating and sustaining change in universities. This new conceptual framework shifts attention from transformation to sustainability rooted in a constructed steady state of change and a collegial approach to entrepreneurialism. It contains key elements necessary for universities to adapt successfully to the modern world. Lessons for reform can be drawn directly from both the individual case studies and the general framework. Overall the book offers a new form of university organization that is more self-reliant and manages to combine change with continuity, traditional academic values with new managerial values. Essential reading for university administrators, faculty members, students and researchers analysing higher education, and educational policymakers worldwide, this book advocates a highly proactive approach to university change and specifies a new basis for university self- reliance. Burton R. Clark is Allan M. Cartter Professor Emeritus of Higher Education and Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. During his career, he has taught at five leading US universities: Stanford, Harvard, Berkeley, Yale and UCLA. He has published widely on the nature of university organization and the realistic possibilties of reform, linking research for understanding with research for use.

Download or read book The Role of Productivity Transportation Costs and Barriers to Intersectoral Mobility in Structural Transformation written by Cem Karayalcin and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The process of economic development is characterized by substantial reallocations of resources across sectors. In this paper, we construct a multi-sector model in which there are barriers to the movement of labor from low-productivity traditional agriculture to modern sectors. With the barrier in place, we show that improvements in productivity in modern sectors (including agriculture) or reductions in transportation costs may lead to a rise in agricultural employment and through terms-oftrade effects may harm subsistence farmers if the traditional subsistence sector is larger than a critical level. This suggests that policy advice based on the earlier literature needs to be revised. Reducing barriers to mobility (through reductions in the cost of skill acquisition and institutional changes) and improving the productivity of subsistence farmers needs to precede policies designed to increase the productivity of modern sectors or decrease transportation costs.