Urban Development and Nature in Latin America: An Indissoluble Marriage
In many latinoamerican countries, the increase of urban population and the absence of planning have exposed an important fraction of the population to natural risks. People’s attitude toward their environment has varied with time, from fear and submission to active protection. In a country as Colomb...
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Revista INVI
2003
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| Zusammenfassung: | In many latinoamerican countries, the increase of urban population and the absence of planning have exposed an important fraction of the population to natural risks. People’s attitude toward their environment has varied with time, from fear and submission to active protection. In a country as Colombia, a theoretical equilibrium has been reached through environmental law: rational use of the natural milieu, using resources but respecting restrictions. However much remains to be done to obtain a truly “natural risk culture”, particularly with respect to a sufficient knowledge of landscape dynamics after human intervention. This knowledge is indispensable, since mankind. presently facing the possibility of a global change on a short basis. Systematic monitoring of changes in land use and natural or modified surface or subsurface processes is thus necessary to establish the presence of global change. Previous strategies and a serious effort to foster related educational programs should be organised at regional and national scales in order to face the problems that the planet is suffering. |
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