Floods and Urban Development: Reflections on the Current Debate

A more adequate way in the search for solutions to the floods we repeatedly experience, means first to have the political, technical and social commitments working in co-ordination in order to achieve radical changes. It is necessary to move from a sectorial analysis of the surface waters in the urb...

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Autor principal: Pavez Reyes, María Isabel
Format: Online
Idioma:spa
Publicat: Revista INVI 1999
Accés en línia:https://revistainvi.uchile.cl/index.php/INVI/article/view/62098
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Sumari:A more adequate way in the search for solutions to the floods we repeatedly experience, means first to have the political, technical and social commitments working in co-ordination in order to achieve radical changes. It is necessary to move from a sectorial analysis of the surface waters in the urban environment which usually specifies the solution in terms of the need of carrying water from one point to the other, to a more integral analysis of the problem It should be part of a coherent co-ordination of the geographical characteristic of the environment to be urbanized, the needs, the values and resources of the inhabitants and the characteristics of the urbanization and its forms.