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Este trabajo forma parte de un estudio sobre experiencias emblemáticas que contribuyen a trazar los lineamientos principales de una Agenda estratégica Pro-Pobre para la superación de la precariedad y pobreza urbana en América Latina y el Caribe que ha sido estructurada en el marco del proyecto P
Esta publicación aborda el caso colombiano, donde el sector público está comenzando a implementar instrumentos de gestión urbana que facilitan el ordenamiento y la planificación física del territorio.
La ciudad es una matriz física y simbólica de la modernidad de nuestras sociedades y es en ella donde más se evidencian las tensiones y contradicciones del desarrollo urbano no-sostenible en nuestra región (concentración de la riqueza y de los vínculos con la globalización económica, severas ineq
Across South Asia, many rural people use common land to harvest naturally-growing plants, grow crops and feed their livestock. Increasingly this activity is being commercialized as farmers move to sell the produce they obtain.
The people of the Sahel — that huge region stretching along the southern edge of the Sahara Desert — are still striving to recover from the fallout of the terrible droughts that have afflicted the area since 1973.
In Uganda’s Kabale district, too many people had been trying to make a living from too little land. Because of overpopulation and exhaustion of the soil by intense cultivation, the area had gone into decline.
The people of the Sahel — that huge region stretching along the southern edge of the Sahara Desert — are still striving to recover from the fallout of the terrible droughts that have afflicted the area since 1973.
From forest clearing to landslides, then private claims to ownership, and with diversion of streams causing new landslides, a progression of environmental crises is tracked over time. The paper provides a timeline of 23 major events affecting the health of Rupa Lake and its wetlands (1952-2005).
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