I have proposed the technomass as an indicator to analyse and measure the metabolic behaviour of urban ecosystems in terms of material productivity. The principle is quite simple: all ecosystems they accumulate matter. In many ecosystems like forest, marine, agriculture and the like…
Dynamics of Urbanization and Ecosystem Services in Latin America
I have recently received a grant from the Chilean Ministry of Science and Technology (CONICYT) to develop a 3 years research project on urbanization, ecosystem services, and nature-based solutions.
Informality was for long in my research topic list. Finally, during 2016 I started to produce findings.
I started to work on urban heat islands (UHI) as a natural consequence of researching Climate Change (CC) and urban development. In fact, UHIs are maybe the most common and worldwide spread effect of urbanization. Cities are dissipative structures…
Metabolism is the core of my research. As a transdisciplinary and cross-cutting concept links in a coherent manner all different topics I am researching. From practical remote sensing and GIS applications to informality, sprawl, and urbanization, metabolism involves everything…
Cities develop according to demographic and economic changes. In Latin America, fast-growing metropolitan areas are subject to very diverse and complex urban sprawl and fragmentation scenarios.