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Impacts of renewable energy on landscape. Alternative of offshore wind in marine areas

Peer-reviewed publication
Enero, 2014
Francia
Reino Unido
Alemania
Dinamarca

The effects determined in the landscape by plants powered by renewable sources represent some unresolved issues in terms of visual and landscape impact mitigation in general. These aspects relate to the landscape are recognized in all types of impact with due attention to the various components and dynamics involved identifiable in the landscape of reference.

Pura Vida with a Purpose: Energizing Engagement with Human Rights through Service-Learning

Peer-reviewed publication
Abril, 2011
Costa Rica

This paper examines the effects of an international service-learning course with a strong human rights component. Human rights have social justice as an essential component and advancing both are considered core competencies in social work. International education in colleges and universities has gained in popularity as has service-learning. Research has been carried out in both these areas. However, less research has been done on the combination of the two.

Región de Aisén - Chile: dos décadas de ordenamiento territorial y propuestas de estrategias y modelos de desarrollo sustentable/ Region Aisen - Chile: two decades of land use and proposed strategies and models for sustainable development

Peer-reviewed publication
Junio, 2009
Chile

Por más de dos décadas, en la Región de Aisén, en la Patagonia chilena, se vienen proponiendo modelos y estrategias de desarrollo innovadoras en busca de sustentabilidad. Estas propuestas han estado acompañadas con diversos intentos de ordenamiento territorial, aprovechando su escasa ocupación, lo cual en el último tiempo ha colisionado con intereses económicos./For over two decades, in the Aisen Region in the Chilean Patagonia, have been proposing models and innovative development strategies for sustainability.

Evaluación ambiental del proceso de urbanización de las cuencas del piedemonte andino de Santiago de Chile

Peer-reviewed publication
Diciembre, 2005
Chile

Las cuencas son complejos sistemas ambientales en que se desarrollan procesos geomorfológicos, hidrológicos, climáticos y ecológicos, que son impactados por la urbanización. En este trabajo se estudian seis cuencas del piedemonte andino de la ciudad de Santiago que se encuentran en diferentes fases del proceso de urbanización, variando entre Macul-San Ramón, en donde casi el 40% de su superficie ha sido incorporada a la ciudad, y Pirque, que mantiene aún sus características agrícolas y rurales.

Case study: The application of geographic information systems to "Settlement potential along railway lines" in the research project "Settlement along regional railway - the Murgtal example", Universit

Peer-reviewed publication
Diciembre, 2004

The field of urban and regional planning is experiencing some fundamental changes that are having impacts on the use of computer-based models in planning practice and education. One of the key changes is the use of powerful, cheap and easy to use GIS software and hardware. This has led to the creation of more extensive spatially referenced datasets, making GIS an essential tool for some planners and management tasks such as land monitoring, code enforcement and permit tracking.

La segmentación socioeconómica del espacio: la comunidad ecológica y la toma de Peñalolén

Peer-reviewed publication
Abril, 2008

Durante el año 2003 en la comuna de Peñalolén se produjo un conflicto urbano entre los integrantes de una comunidad ecológica y los habitantes de una toma¹ de terreno. Esta situación reactivó la discusión acerca de la segregación urbana y la voluntad de integración en la ciudad de sectores social y culturalmente diversos.

IL RECUPERO DELLA RENDITA, IL LAND VALUE RECAPTURE NEGLI USA: IL CASO DI SAN FRANCISCO

Peer-reviewed publication
Diciembre, 2014
Europa
América Septentrional

During the period immediately after World War II, planning in North America and Europe followed highly centralized, top-down, command-and-control approaches that were based on the rational-comprehensive model of planning, which implies an all-knowing, all-powerful government. Part and parcel of this approach was the government’s control of development land and its value.

Brownfield regeneration: Towards strengthening social cohesion?

Peer-reviewed publication
Diciembre, 2016

In broader terms, the paper refers to the topic of brownfield regeneration, as one of the most complex mechanisms for sustainable spatial development. In addition to the fact that brownfield regeneration demands a variety of instruments, such as: tax subsidies, the change of land use ownership, soil remediation, planning regulative amendments, etc., the complexity of brownfield regeneration is primarily seen in a number of stakeholders participating in such a process.