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Lucy Winchester, expert of the Sustainable Development and Human
This document has been prepared by Lucy Winchester, Consultant, Division of Sustainable Developme... more This document has been prepared by Lucy Winchester, Consultant, Division of Sustainable Development and Human
Environment and Urbanization, 2000
The paper describes how poverty and exclusion within Santiago has been overlooked, in part, becau... more The paper describes how poverty and exclusion within Santiago has been overlooked, in part, because of the city's strong economic performance and impressive aggregate social indicators. It highlights how segregrated the city has become-for instance the political fragmentation and the large differentials between the 34 municipalities that make up Greater Santiago in terms of their per capita income, quality of education, extent of new building investment, and municipal authorities' levels of income and expenditure. It also describes the loss of social and physical space for public interaction and the rising perception of insecurity. It suggests that such problems are in part linked to the lack of democratic structures within Santiago since it lacks a democratic metropolitan government and most power, resources and decisions remain with national ministries.
Revista Proposiciones, 2000
Cities in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) currently face many environmental and sustainable... more Cities in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) currently face many environmental and sustainable development challenges, with significant impacts on human health, resource productivity/incomes, ecological “public goods”, poverty, and inequity. In this context, climate change impacts in the region will exacerbate and create additional complexity, particularly in urban areas. For hundreds of millions of urban dwellers in LAC, most of the risks from the impacts of climate change are a result of development failures. For the urban poor, this fact is disproportionately true. This paper seeks to contribute to the limited body of knowledge regarding climate change, cities and the urban poor in the region, and to inform how institutions, governance and urban planning are keys to understanding the opportunities and limitations to possible policy and program advances in the area of adaptation.
The Working Group on Development and Environment in the Americas, founded in 2004, brings togethe... more The Working Group on Development and Environment in the Americas, founded in 2004, brings together researchers from several countries in the Americas who have carried out empirical studies of the social and environmental impacts of economic liberalization. The goal of the Working Group Project is to contribute empirical research and policy analysis to the ongoing policy debates on national economic development strategies and international trade. The project also brings more prominently into U.S. policy debates the rich body of research carried out by Latin American experts, as well as their informed perspectives on trade and development policies. Nicola Borregaard holds a PhD in Land Economy from Cambridge University, and a Master in Economics from SUNY at Albany, she has created the Environmental Economics Unit in the National Commission on Environment in Chile, was Executive Director of the Centro de Investigación y Planificación del Medio Ambiente, CIPMA, and one of the founders ...
The book shows a theoretical approach about local development and presents several case studies i... more The book shows a theoretical approach about local development and presents several case studies in Chile and Uruguay divided in two subgroups: local economical development and local social development. It shows the local development as a new way of acting from the territory in the context of globalization, which has four substantial elements: territory, territorial competitivity, participation and collective project. The local development in its economic dimension seeks to generate the necessary endogenous factors for an economic growth territorially bounded. It covers areas as employment generation, enterprise dynamism, municipal management. In the social dimension it covers issues from the social promotion on a district scale to the guidelines for the national social polices. It underlines the strong attachments of local economic development with “the social”. A weak point on the strategies of local development is the lack of an appropriate national institutional framework, and th...
Este documento analiza la interaccion entre la ciudad y el medio ambiente en el contexto del desa... more Este documento analiza la interaccion entre la ciudad y el medio ambiente en el contexto del desarrollo sostenible en America Latina y el Caribe, examinando las consecuencias positivas y negativas que la urbanizacion y el desarrollo representan para sus ambientes naturales. Se presenta un diagnostico de los actuales desafios politicos en el sistema urbano regional en el contexto del crecimiento urbano, el desarrollo, y el cambio en el medio ambiente. El documento se organiza por temas -agua potable, saneamiento basico y residuos solidos; la contaminacion atmosferica, el transporte y la energia; actividades de mitigacion y adaptacion urbanas en relacion con el cambio climatico; ciudades sostenibles; entre otros-, y presenta datos cualitativos y cuantitativos en relacion con las cargas ambientales urbanas, para los hogares, las ciudades, y/o a escalas globales, asi como los logros y las respuestas politicas efectivas en estas areas. Cuando es posible se destacan las mejores practicas,...
This document presents an overview of the regional progress made towards the targets and commitme... more This document presents an overview of the regional progress made towards the targets and commitments derived from implementation plans and programmes for the main agreements of the Johannesburg Summit and Agenda 21 regarding human settlements thematic cluster in Latin America and the Caribbean. It has been submitted as part of the preparatory process for the twelfth session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, held in May 2004. A previous summary of this report was validated by the XII General Assembly of Ministers and Highest Authorities of Housing and Urban Development (MINURVI); held in La Paz, Bolivia, during November 2003. The report addresses the principal social, economic and environmental issues in the region, as well as the challenges and opportunities for sustainable development in the region, highlighting advances made in the implementation of policies, reforms, programmes and projects in this area.
La ciudad es una matriz fisica y simbolica de la modernidad de nuestras sociedades y es en ella d... more La ciudad es una matriz fisica y simbolica de la modernidad de nuestras sociedades y es en ella donde mas se evidencian las tensiones y contradicciones del desarrollo urbano no-sostenible en nuestra region (concentracion de la riqueza y de los vinculos con la globalizacion economica, severas inequidades y exclusiones sociales, contaminacion, consumo energetico irracional, pobreza urbana, entre muchos otros);. Sin lugar a dudas, si se pasara revista a los avances, retrocesos, pasivos y capitales actuales a nivel regional en el campo del desarrollo sostenible de las ciudades, veremos que ha habido avances en la region: en particular, en introducir criterios asociados a estas tres dimensiones claves del desarrollo -social, ambiental y economico- en las politicas, programas y proyectos que afectan la urbe. Como tambien en reconocer politicas, programas y proyectos en las distintas escalas del desarrollo: local, subnacional, nacional, regional y global. Sin embargo, podemos predecir que ...
SUMMARY: The paper describes how poverty and exclusion within Santiago has been overlooked, in pa... more SUMMARY: The paper describes how poverty and exclusion within Santiago has been overlooked, in part, because of the city’s strong economic performance and impressive aggregate social indicators. It highlights how segregrated the city has become – for instance the political fragmentation and the large differentials between the 34 municipalities that make up Greater Santiago in terms of their per capita income, quality of education, extent of new building investment, and municipal authorities’ levels of income and expenditure. It also describes the loss of social and physical space for public interaction and the rising perception of insecurity. It suggests that such problems are in part linked to the lack of democratic structures within Santiago since it lacks a democratic metropolitan government and most power, resources and decisions remain with national ministries.
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) contribute a relatively small proportion to overall greenho... more Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) contribute a relatively small proportion to overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on a global scale. The region’s vulnerability, to global warming, however, is significant. LAC is a highly urbanized region, with urbanization levels rivaling that of many industrialized nations. UN projections suggest that 80 percent of Latin America will be urban by 2015. Although one out of three LAC inhabitants will live in small and medium-sized urban settlements, about one-sixth of the total population will be concentrated in nine metropolitan areas (ECLAC 2006). Cities in LAC currently face many environmental and sustainable development challenges, with significant impacts on human health, resource productivity/incomes, ecological “public goods”, poverty, and inequity. In this context, climate change impacts in the region will exacerbate those development challenges. Much of the urban population has limited adaptive capacity to environmental hazards, includ...
International Social Science Journal, 2010
Alfredo Rodriguez is an architect, town-planner, and Director of SUR, Centro de Estudios Sociales... more Alfredo Rodriguez is an architect, town-planner, and Director of SUR, Centro de Estudios Sociales y Educacih (Centre for Social Studies and Education), JM Infante 85, Providen-cia, Santiago, Chile. Lucy Winchester is an economist who is also a researcher with SUR. ...
Revista Proposiciones, 2000
Lucy Winchester, expert of the Sustainable Development and Human
This document has been prepared by Lucy Winchester, Consultant, Division of Sustainable Developme... more This document has been prepared by Lucy Winchester, Consultant, Division of Sustainable Development and Human
Environment and Urbanization, 2000
The paper describes how poverty and exclusion within Santiago has been overlooked, in part, becau... more The paper describes how poverty and exclusion within Santiago has been overlooked, in part, because of the city's strong economic performance and impressive aggregate social indicators. It highlights how segregrated the city has become-for instance the political fragmentation and the large differentials between the 34 municipalities that make up Greater Santiago in terms of their per capita income, quality of education, extent of new building investment, and municipal authorities' levels of income and expenditure. It also describes the loss of social and physical space for public interaction and the rising perception of insecurity. It suggests that such problems are in part linked to the lack of democratic structures within Santiago since it lacks a democratic metropolitan government and most power, resources and decisions remain with national ministries.
Revista Proposiciones, 2000
Cities in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) currently face many environmental and sustainable... more Cities in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) currently face many environmental and sustainable development challenges, with significant impacts on human health, resource productivity/incomes, ecological “public goods”, poverty, and inequity. In this context, climate change impacts in the region will exacerbate and create additional complexity, particularly in urban areas. For hundreds of millions of urban dwellers in LAC, most of the risks from the impacts of climate change are a result of development failures. For the urban poor, this fact is disproportionately true. This paper seeks to contribute to the limited body of knowledge regarding climate change, cities and the urban poor in the region, and to inform how institutions, governance and urban planning are keys to understanding the opportunities and limitations to possible policy and program advances in the area of adaptation.
The Working Group on Development and Environment in the Americas, founded in 2004, brings togethe... more The Working Group on Development and Environment in the Americas, founded in 2004, brings together researchers from several countries in the Americas who have carried out empirical studies of the social and environmental impacts of economic liberalization. The goal of the Working Group Project is to contribute empirical research and policy analysis to the ongoing policy debates on national economic development strategies and international trade. The project also brings more prominently into U.S. policy debates the rich body of research carried out by Latin American experts, as well as their informed perspectives on trade and development policies. Nicola Borregaard holds a PhD in Land Economy from Cambridge University, and a Master in Economics from SUNY at Albany, she has created the Environmental Economics Unit in the National Commission on Environment in Chile, was Executive Director of the Centro de Investigación y Planificación del Medio Ambiente, CIPMA, and one of the founders ...
The book shows a theoretical approach about local development and presents several case studies i... more The book shows a theoretical approach about local development and presents several case studies in Chile and Uruguay divided in two subgroups: local economical development and local social development. It shows the local development as a new way of acting from the territory in the context of globalization, which has four substantial elements: territory, territorial competitivity, participation and collective project. The local development in its economic dimension seeks to generate the necessary endogenous factors for an economic growth territorially bounded. It covers areas as employment generation, enterprise dynamism, municipal management. In the social dimension it covers issues from the social promotion on a district scale to the guidelines for the national social polices. It underlines the strong attachments of local economic development with “the social”. A weak point on the strategies of local development is the lack of an appropriate national institutional framework, and th...
Este documento analiza la interaccion entre la ciudad y el medio ambiente en el contexto del desa... more Este documento analiza la interaccion entre la ciudad y el medio ambiente en el contexto del desarrollo sostenible en America Latina y el Caribe, examinando las consecuencias positivas y negativas que la urbanizacion y el desarrollo representan para sus ambientes naturales. Se presenta un diagnostico de los actuales desafios politicos en el sistema urbano regional en el contexto del crecimiento urbano, el desarrollo, y el cambio en el medio ambiente. El documento se organiza por temas -agua potable, saneamiento basico y residuos solidos; la contaminacion atmosferica, el transporte y la energia; actividades de mitigacion y adaptacion urbanas en relacion con el cambio climatico; ciudades sostenibles; entre otros-, y presenta datos cualitativos y cuantitativos en relacion con las cargas ambientales urbanas, para los hogares, las ciudades, y/o a escalas globales, asi como los logros y las respuestas politicas efectivas en estas areas. Cuando es posible se destacan las mejores practicas,...
This document presents an overview of the regional progress made towards the targets and commitme... more This document presents an overview of the regional progress made towards the targets and commitments derived from implementation plans and programmes for the main agreements of the Johannesburg Summit and Agenda 21 regarding human settlements thematic cluster in Latin America and the Caribbean. It has been submitted as part of the preparatory process for the twelfth session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, held in May 2004. A previous summary of this report was validated by the XII General Assembly of Ministers and Highest Authorities of Housing and Urban Development (MINURVI); held in La Paz, Bolivia, during November 2003. The report addresses the principal social, economic and environmental issues in the region, as well as the challenges and opportunities for sustainable development in the region, highlighting advances made in the implementation of policies, reforms, programmes and projects in this area.
La ciudad es una matriz fisica y simbolica de la modernidad de nuestras sociedades y es en ella d... more La ciudad es una matriz fisica y simbolica de la modernidad de nuestras sociedades y es en ella donde mas se evidencian las tensiones y contradicciones del desarrollo urbano no-sostenible en nuestra region (concentracion de la riqueza y de los vinculos con la globalizacion economica, severas inequidades y exclusiones sociales, contaminacion, consumo energetico irracional, pobreza urbana, entre muchos otros);. Sin lugar a dudas, si se pasara revista a los avances, retrocesos, pasivos y capitales actuales a nivel regional en el campo del desarrollo sostenible de las ciudades, veremos que ha habido avances en la region: en particular, en introducir criterios asociados a estas tres dimensiones claves del desarrollo -social, ambiental y economico- en las politicas, programas y proyectos que afectan la urbe. Como tambien en reconocer politicas, programas y proyectos en las distintas escalas del desarrollo: local, subnacional, nacional, regional y global. Sin embargo, podemos predecir que ...
SUMMARY: The paper describes how poverty and exclusion within Santiago has been overlooked, in pa... more SUMMARY: The paper describes how poverty and exclusion within Santiago has been overlooked, in part, because of the city’s strong economic performance and impressive aggregate social indicators. It highlights how segregrated the city has become – for instance the political fragmentation and the large differentials between the 34 municipalities that make up Greater Santiago in terms of their per capita income, quality of education, extent of new building investment, and municipal authorities’ levels of income and expenditure. It also describes the loss of social and physical space for public interaction and the rising perception of insecurity. It suggests that such problems are in part linked to the lack of democratic structures within Santiago since it lacks a democratic metropolitan government and most power, resources and decisions remain with national ministries.
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) contribute a relatively small proportion to overall greenho... more Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) contribute a relatively small proportion to overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on a global scale. The region’s vulnerability, to global warming, however, is significant. LAC is a highly urbanized region, with urbanization levels rivaling that of many industrialized nations. UN projections suggest that 80 percent of Latin America will be urban by 2015. Although one out of three LAC inhabitants will live in small and medium-sized urban settlements, about one-sixth of the total population will be concentrated in nine metropolitan areas (ECLAC 2006). Cities in LAC currently face many environmental and sustainable development challenges, with significant impacts on human health, resource productivity/incomes, ecological “public goods”, poverty, and inequity. In this context, climate change impacts in the region will exacerbate those development challenges. Much of the urban population has limited adaptive capacity to environmental hazards, includ...
International Social Science Journal, 2010
Alfredo Rodriguez is an architect, town-planner, and Director of SUR, Centro de Estudios Sociales... more Alfredo Rodriguez is an architect, town-planner, and Director of SUR, Centro de Estudios Sociales y Educacih (Centre for Social Studies and Education), JM Infante 85, Providen-cia, Santiago, Chile. Lucy Winchester is an economist who is also a researcher with SUR. ...
Revista Proposiciones, 2000