{"title":"Propuesta de un indicador para evaluar la calidad climática urbana: estudio de caso en una ciudad media mediterránea chilena","authors":"Pamela Smith Guerra, Cristián Henríquez Ruiz","doi":"10.15446/RCDG.V30N1.79653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15446/RCDG.V30N1.79653","url":null,"abstract":"Las altas temperaturas, la fuerte radiación, la baja cobertura vegetal, la impermeabilización del suelo, entre otros factores urbano-climáticos, generan un gran disconfort y molestias a la población urbana. Aunque algunas de las características de las ciudades están reguladas por normativas ambientales (como la calidad del aire y el ruido) y urbanísticas (como los usos de suelo o las alturas de edificación), no existe un marco conceptual para determinar el nivel de calidad climática en la ciudad de manera integrada. La presente investigación propone un indicador innovador de Calidad Climática Urbana (CCU) a partir de una evaluación multicriterio que considera la consulta a expertos, el cálculo de factores climáticos y su espacialización en SIG. Como caso de estudio se aborda la ciudad media de Chillán, Chile, que posee una gran cantidad de horas diurnas afectadas por disconfort térmico en verano y episodios de muy mala calidad del aire en invierno. Se observa que existe una gran injusticia climática producto de las grandes diferencias entre las condiciones socioambientales y la CCU en diferentes barrios de la ciudad, que se traduce en que la población con mayores niveles socioeconómicos disfrute de mayor ccu en relación con los indicadores de los sectores más pobres.","PeriodicalId":37099,"journal":{"name":"Cuadernos de Geografia: Revista Colombiana de Geografia","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67050322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Distribución e indicadores de cobertura y accesibilidad del espacio público en Manizales, Colombia","authors":"Tania Giraldo Ospina, Luis R. Vásquez-Varela","doi":"10.15446/RCDG.V30N1.84320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15446/RCDG.V30N1.84320","url":null,"abstract":"La cantidad de espacios públicos urbanos ha sido valorada de acuerdo con estándares internacionales establecidos como metas para las ciudades. En el contexto colombiano las investigaciones sobre indicadores de calidad del espacio público a escala de barrio no son comunes por razones que incluyen la falta de datos detallados. Este artículo presenta una valoración cuantitativa del espacio público basada en un análisis espacial intraurbano, mediante el uso de un sistema de información geográfica según cuatro variables: espacios públicos, zonas verdes, árboles urbanos y habitantes. El cumplimiento de indicadores se entorpece cuando el ordenamiento territorial municipal no utiliza instrumentos de gestión urbana para proveer, ordenar, diseñar, construir y mantener los espacios públicos. Asimismo, su gestión se dificulta cuando la planificación no corresponde con la distribución poblacional y las nuevas densidades según cambios de los parámetros de ocupación y aprovechamiento, usos o incremento de habitantes; incluso cuando hay nuevos usuarios, necesidades y actividades en el espacio público. En consecuencia, los procesos de planeación emprendidos no logran superar el déficit de espacios públicos ni mejorar la calidad de vida urbana, y persisten desigualdades ambientales en barrios con cobertura mínima o sin cobertura.","PeriodicalId":37099,"journal":{"name":"Cuadernos de Geografia: Revista Colombiana de Geografia","volume":"30 1","pages":"158-177"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67050364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Luis Miguel Espinosa Rodríguez, Guadalupe Dianne Garduño Flores, J. R. Hernández Santana
{"title":"Deslizamientos y resiliencia comunitaria en Angangueo-Michoacán, México","authors":"Luis Miguel Espinosa Rodríguez, Guadalupe Dianne Garduño Flores, J. R. Hernández Santana","doi":"10.15446/RCDG.V30N1.87582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15446/RCDG.V30N1.87582","url":null,"abstract":"The municipality of Angangueo located in Michoacan Mexico, is located on a hillside system that presents a predominantly concave and mixes morphology, dominant slopes that vary between 30 and 40 degrees of inclination, an erodible geological substrate and erosion-prone soils; geographical-physical conditions that, when combined with the little knowledge of relief geodynamics, misguide territorial occupation decisions, and meteorological and climatic conditions, generate conditions of hillside instability. With this scenario, this research focuses on determining community resilience in the municipality of Angangueo in the face of mass removal processes; considering the morphodynamic characterization, the georeferencing of processes thar happened in historical time, and the statistical evaluation of surveys aimed at understanding resilience. This was achieved through geological and geomorphological characterization, the generation of an inventory of mass removal processes, the preparation of susceptibility cartography and the determination of degree of resilience. The results show that although community resilience growth is considered in the locality, some variables as perception and marginality determine precarious development conditions.","PeriodicalId":37099,"journal":{"name":"Cuadernos de Geografia: Revista Colombiana de Geografia","volume":"30 1","pages":"257-273"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67050429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Letizia Silva Ontiveros, María Teresa Sánchez Salazar
{"title":"La etapa posminera: procesos y actividades asociadas, en cinco sitios del norte de México","authors":"Letizia Silva Ontiveros, María Teresa Sánchez Salazar","doi":"10.15446/RCDG.V30N1.83134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15446/RCDG.V30N1.83134","url":null,"abstract":"Las actividades mineras dependen de la viabilidad de extracción de recursos no renovables, por lo que las interrupciones del ciclo minero son algo intrínseco a la minería, al depender de factores económicos, sociales o técnicos que puedan llegar a obstaculizar su continuidad. Este artículo aborda la caracterización de diferentes tipos de interrupciones, englobados aquí dentro de lo que llamamos etapa posminera, haciendo énfasis en la percepción de la población que se vincula con los sitios donde se interrumpe la minería. Se toman cinco casos de estudio que reflejan distintos tipos de actividades y procesos posmineros, enmarcados en la situación que se observó en 2018, utilizando métodos cualitativos desde la geografía de la percepción. El aporte de la investigación radica en vislumbrar cómo se traslapan las acciones realizadas desde las empresas y gobiernos, contrastando con la percepción de las poblaciones que se vinculan con la minería. Este trabajo es un acercamiento a la comprensión de lo que sucede con los poblados y las poblaciones vinculadas a la minería una vez que esta cesa, y evidencia cómo se modifica la relación con el sitio y con su cotidianeidad a lo largo de la fase posminera de manera diferenciada en cada caso presentado.","PeriodicalId":37099,"journal":{"name":"Cuadernos de Geografia: Revista Colombiana de Geografia","volume":"47 14","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41248742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paleogeografía del canal y delta del Dique, Colombia","authors":"Germán Vargas Cuervo","doi":"10.15446/RCDG.V30N1.82585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15446/RCDG.V30N1.82585","url":null,"abstract":"En la corta historia geológica y geomorfológica de la llanura de inundación, canal y delta del Dique, localizada en la costa Caribe colombiana, se han presentado, en los últimos 500 años, notables cambios por procesos naturales y antrópicos que han modificado la geometría del canal y la morfología del delta, que han repercutido notablemente en la alta sedimentación de las bahías de Barbacoas y de Cartagena en el mar Caribe colombiano, pasando de una bahía a un delta, lo que ha causado problemas ambientales. En este artículo se presenta una reconstrucción de la paleogeografía y sedimentología del canal y delta del Dique a partir de elementos químicos que evidencian la presencia del mar en la zona continental. Se utilizaron métodos de análisis de documentos, mapas históricos, procesamiento e interpretación digital de imágenes de satélite, exploraciones directas del subsuelo, levantamientos geológicos y geomorfológicos detallados de campo, muestreo y análisis geoquímicos de sedimentos y rocas por métodos de fluorescencia de rayos X.","PeriodicalId":37099,"journal":{"name":"Cuadernos de Geografia: Revista Colombiana de Geografia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48568480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Ríos-Reyes, Dino Carmelo Manco Jaraba, Oscar Mauricio Castellanos-Alarcón
{"title":"Geotourism Potential and Challenges of the Coastal Region Around Santa Marta (Colombia): a Novel Strategy for Socioeconomic Development","authors":"C. Ríos-Reyes, Dino Carmelo Manco Jaraba, Oscar Mauricio Castellanos-Alarcón","doi":"10.15446/RCDG.V30N1.81239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15446/RCDG.V30N1.81239","url":null,"abstract":"This research article refers to the coastal region around Santa Marta (Colombia), showing a valuable geodiversity from a coastal geomorphology point of view, with great scientific importance for the study of coastal landscapes and attractive for the development of geotourism. The landscape value of the coastal regions of the Colombian Caribbean, in particular of the coastal region around Santa Marta, should be globally recognized to improve and protect its aesthetic and environmental value through geoeducation and geotourism activities that contribute to its geoconservation, motivating efficient management that outlines guidelines that promote the development of appropriate tourist infrastructure, centers of scientific interpretation, dissemination and educational materials, active exchange with geoparks, continuous improvement, and participation of local communities.","PeriodicalId":37099,"journal":{"name":"Cuadernos de Geografia: Revista Colombiana de Geografia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46901342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
María Cecilia Zapata, Carolina María Gonzalez Redondo, M. Najman, F. Corti
{"title":"Políticas habitacionales de mixtura social en escenarios de renovación urbana. El caso del Plan de Soluciones Habitacionales en la traza de la ex-Autopista 3, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina","authors":"María Cecilia Zapata, Carolina María Gonzalez Redondo, M. Najman, F. Corti","doi":"10.15446/RCDG.V30N1.81574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15446/RCDG.V30N1.81574","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses a housing policy of social mixture in a neighborhood that is under an urban renewal process. It studies the implementation of the housing plan included in the law n.o 3.396/09, that creates the Parque Donado-Holmberg neighborhood in the area of what should have been the Highway 3 in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The paper explores the possibilities of social mixture that the social housing program enables (or not) in an urban renewal scenario. For that purpose it analyses the modes of access to social housing and the perceptions that the recipients have about their new houses. It deploys a qualitative methodology, based on secondary sources and the construction of primary data (interviews, non-participant observations and a collective mapping), that has been made between July 2016 and May. 2018. The article argues that the implementation of a policy of access to social housing is insufficient to stimulate social mixture in an urban renewal scenario.","PeriodicalId":37099,"journal":{"name":"Cuadernos de Geografia: Revista Colombiana de Geografia","volume":"30 1","pages":"45-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67050388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decolonialidad originaria latinoamericana y condicionamiento barroco del territorio novohispano: conventos, presidios y pueblos de indios","authors":"E. Costa, José Omar Moncada","doi":"10.15446/RCDG.V30N1.80924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15446/RCDG.V30N1.80924","url":null,"abstract":"El barroco en Latinoamérica invoca conceptos y nociones relativos a diferentes campos disciplinares y, geográficamente, puede ser trabajado como síntesis estética de la historicidad política del espacio. Así, este artículo analiza los objetos geográficos que explican el condicionamiento barroco del territorio resultante de la colonización ibérica de América; en especial de Nueva España. Metodológicamente se trata (1) del complejo condicionamiento del territorio novohispano forjado por tres instituciones coloniales de posesión y control cartografiadas en este estudio: los conventos, los presidios y los pueblos de indios; y (2) se introduce la noción de decolonialidad originaria. La investigación revela que estos objetos amalgamados formaron los embriones de ciudades condicionados por el devenir de una mentalidad fundadora y un “ethos barroco”, paradójicamente estimulantes de una resistencia indígena, negra y mestiza en el continente. Ese condicionamiento moderno (o barroco) del territorio -reflejo de su total posesión real e imaginaria a través de la praxis jurídica, teológica y productiva colonial- constituye la fase de sacralización del espacio novohispano (siglos XVI-XVII).","PeriodicalId":37099,"journal":{"name":"Cuadernos de Geografia: Revista Colombiana de Geografia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48228844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Turismo y promoción en la provincia de Salta (Argentina). Las imágenes oficiales de la geografía turística provincial","authors":"C. Troncoso","doi":"10.15446/RCDG.V30N1.82373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15446/RCDG.V30N1.82373","url":null,"abstract":"The article addresses the relationship between tourism, geography, and images, seeking to recognize how images mediate place tourist experience. To do this, the paper analyzes the official tourism promotion of Salta (Argentina) considering the main ideas about the destination created by local government. This is done by examining graphic material (booklets, books, magazines, brochures, posters, maps, etc.) edited and distributed by provincial government since 2007 to 2019. The analysis of graphic devices produced by provincial government shows that there are two main ideas about Salta as a tourist place. One of them portraits Salta as an unvisited place that is ideal for initial exploration. The other idea depicts it as a place where tourists can get access to an unaltered and rich cultural heritage. The text concludes by pointing out that official promotion strategy renews tourists’ interest for the exotic, the different, and the remote, while allowing the multiplication of business options in a context where diversity is necessary to increase consumption.","PeriodicalId":37099,"journal":{"name":"Cuadernos de Geografia: Revista Colombiana de Geografia","volume":"30 1","pages":"125-143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67050136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Territorial and Electorate Size Influence: Participation/Competitiveness in Costa Rica’s 2016 Local Scale Elections","authors":"D. A. D. Azevedo, Bruno Lessa Meireles","doi":"10.15446/RCDG.V30N1.79637","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15446/RCDG.V30N1.79637","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, political geography has begun to revisit traditional geographical theories using quantitative methodologies. Size, location, density, position, and other important geographic characteristics have reemerged as central data points in the analysis of political phenomena. In this article, we analyze possible relationships between size (territorial and electoral) and electoral outcomes (competitiveness and participation) in Costa Rica’s 2016 local (canton) elections. In this effort, we seek to revisit a tradition abandoned by some currents of geography, often erroneously associated with geographic determinism and widely criticized by geography researchers since the 1960s. Costa Rica was chosen for the study because it is considered one of the most successful democratic systems in Latin America, and it is now facing important issues about its new decentralization process. Linear Ordinary Least Squares (ols) regressions were used to analyze the 2016 elections in 82 Costa Rican cantones. This article reveals that there are important causal relationships between territorial size and electoral participation/competitiveness in Costa Rica. Conclusion Geographical analyses are crucial to understand voter turnout and competitiveness. Our conclusion could help Costa Ricans create new strategies to further develop their democracy and its decentralization process.","PeriodicalId":37099,"journal":{"name":"Cuadernos de Geografia: Revista Colombiana de Geografia","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67050229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}