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Sustainable Environment and Health
The United Nations describes sustainable development as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” It encompasses the need to incorporate growing concerns about a range of environmental and public health issues with socio-economic affairs. This new book focuses on the goal of implementing greener environment approaches while considering public health and human well-being and economies. The volume presents and examines advances, developments, and the underlying concepts of a healthy urban environment in the areas of water and wastewater treatment, food supply under sustainable development, and chemical contamination.
Strategic Asset Management of Water Supply and Wastewater Infrastructures
Water and Wastewater companies operating all around the world have faced rising asset management and replacement costs, often to levels that are financially unsustainable. Management of investment needs, while meeting regulatory and other goals, has required: A better understanding of what customers demand from the services they pay for, and the extent to which they are willing to pay for improvements or be compensated for a reduction in performance Development of models to predict asset failure and to identify and concentrate investment on critical assets Improved management systems Improved accounting for costs and benefits and their incorporation within an appropriate cost-benefit framewo...
Water Availability and Management in Mexico
This book presents several complex case studies related to water management and planning in the context of pollution, growing demands, and global climate change in Mexico, but which are also relevant for other countries in Latin America. These concerns are of critical importance for policymakers who are coping with multiple conflicting interests. Water availability in Mexico is polarized, with abundant rainfall and large rivers in the south, and desert-like conditions in the north. The central region, which is the most industrialized, is overpopulated. Mexico City pours millions of cubic meters of “blackwater” into the northern valley daily and receives its clean water from the south. To...
Planning for diversity and multiplicity : a new agenda of the world planning community
Abstract of the proceedings of the international conference presented in the 2006 World Planning Schools Congress that address a wide range of topics with an emphasis on urban planning and redevelopment.
Water and Cities in Latin America
Approximately 80 per cent of the population of Latin America is concentrated in urban centres. Pressure on water resources and water management in cities therefore provide major challenges. Despite the importance of the issues, there has been little systematic coverage of the topic in book form. This work fills a gap in the literature by providing both thematic overviews and case study chapters. It reviews key aspects of why water matters in cities and presents case studies on topics such as groundwater management, green growth and water services, inequalities in water supply, the financing of water services and flood management. Detailed examples are described from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru, and there is also a chapter comparing lessons which might be learnt from US cities. Contributing authors are drawn from both within and outside the region, including from the Inter-American Development Bank, OECD and World Bank to set the issues in a global context.
The Architecture and Cities of Northern Mexico from Independence to the Present
The states of Northern Mexico—Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Durango, Sonora, Sinaloa, and Baja California Norte and Sur—have architecture, urbanism, and landscape design that offer numerous lessons in how to build well, but this constructed environment is largely undervalued or unknown. To make this architecture better known to a wide professional, academic, and public audience, this book presents the first comprehensive overview in either English or Spanish of the architecture, urban landscapes, and cities of Northern Mexico from the country's emergence as a modern nation in 1821 to the present day. Profusely illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs, maps, ...
Vision, Technology, and Subjectivity in Mexican Cyberpunk Literature
Vision, Technology and Subjectivity in Mexican Cyberpunk Literature interrogates an array of cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk science fiction novels and short stories from Mexico whose themes engage directly with visual technologies and the subjectivities they help produce – all published during and influenced by the country’s neoliberal era. This book argues that television, computers, and smartphones and the literary narratives that treat them all correspond to separate-yet-overlapping scopic regimes within the country today. Amidst the shifts occurring in the country’s field of vision during this period, the authors of these cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk narratives imagine how these devi...
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Gestión del agua en México
La gestión del agua en México ha estado enfocada en la práctica a satisfacer los requerimientos del recurso para sus distintos usos; principalmente agrícola, industrial y doméstico urbano. Se ha dado muy poca atención a los aspectos ambientales, las necesidades de los ecosistemas y a una adecuada gobernanza del agua en la que los distintos usuarios participen en esa gestión. En diciembre de 2016, la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas adoptó por unanimidad la resolución Decenio Internacional (2018-2028) para la Acción-Agua para el Desarrollo Sostenible. De acuerdo con esa resolución, el decenio se concentrará en el desarrollo sostenible y la gestión integrada de los recursos hídricos para el logro de los objetivos sociales, económicos y ambientales. Dos conceptos que se encuentran en la base del planteamiento de dicha resolución son: desarrollo sustentable y gobernanza del agua. Este libro parte de esos conceptos, la hipótesis general en la que se basa es que la aplicación de un enfoque centrado en el desarrollo sustentable y la gobernanza puede mejorar significativamente la gestión del agua en México.
