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Migration and desertification

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2010
Global

International policy and decision makers now recognize that the link between environmental change and migration has grave consequences for human security. The paradigm of security has shifted away from purely state-centered models to a model that encompasses the greater idea of human development as freedom. The new model implies greater international awareness of the importance of sustainable development for all people – including an intact environment and the ability of all people to enjoy good health and respectable work.

Migration et désertification

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2010
Global

Les acteurs politiques et décideurs internationaux reconnaissent à présent que le lien entre changement climatique et migration a de graves conséquences sur la sécurité humaine. Le paradigme sécuritaire s’est déplacé, passant de modèles purement centrés sur l’état à un modèle englobant cette grande idée du développement humain qu’est la liberté.

Migración y desertificación

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2010
Global

Aquellos que formulan políticas y decisiones internacionales reconocen que la relación entre el cambio medioambiental y la migración tiene graves consecuencias para la seguridad humana. El paradigma de la seguridad se ha alejado de los modelos centrados exclusivamente en el Estado para acercase a un patrón que contempla una idea más amplia: la del desarrollo humano como modelo de libertad.

Foodsheds and city region food systems in two West African cities

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2016
Burkina Faso
Ghana
Western Africa

In response to changing urban food systems, short supply chains have been advocated to meet urban food needs while building more sustainable urban food systems. Despite an increasing interest in urban food supply and the flows of food from production to consumption, there is a lack of empirical studies and methodologies which systematically analyse the actual proportion and nutritional significance of local and regional food supplied to urban markets.

Managing environmentally-induced migration in drylands: The Win-Win Strategy

Policy Papers & Briefs
July, 2009
Global

Human activities have resulted in unprecedented phenomena and severe impacts for the 21st century such as land degradation, natural resources scarcity, climate change, and a rapid decline in biodiversity. These alterations engender secondary effects such as political conflicts, disputes over resources, social disruptions and sudden shocks of catastrophic weather events which are becoming more frequent in critical regions of the world, particularly in drylands; and exacerbate threats for human, national and international security.


Sub-decree on Phnom Penh Land Use Master Plan for 2035

Regulations
December, 2015
Cambodia

The objective and strategy-oriented development goal of Phnom Penh urbanization aim to:

- Orient land usage and ensure the existing potential value of the Phnom Penh capital city in sustainable, efficient and equitable ways, in order to support the socio-economic development, ensure food security, pulchritude and environmental quality.

- Orient the development with equality, equity and correspondence between Phnom Penh capital city, city, provinces of the country and other states’ cities.

Eficiencia de la estrategia de gestión y localización de los residuos de la Comunidad de Madrid / Efficiency of management strategy and location of Madrid Autonomous Region waste

Peer-reviewed publication
September, 2012
Resumen
Uno de los principales problemas asociado a nuestro modelo de desarrollo y a nuestras pautas de consumo es la generación de grandes cantidades de residuos. Éstos se están convirtiendo en un grave problema por ser uno de los factores principales que condiciona y determina la calidad ambiental de nuestras ciudades y su entorno. Además, el consumo de suelo que genera su eliminación es un hecho constante cuyo mantenimiento resulta complicado en territorios densamente poblados como la Comunidad de Madrid.

Globalization and the built environment in metropolitan São Paulo

Peer-reviewed publication
June, 2007

This study investigates the process of globalization over the past decades as a process of technological progress in computer science and communication and as transformation in the world economic order. It identifies the political and economic causes of globalization and their impact on the social sphere of developing nations. In past decades social inequality has widened in these countries and their large cities. This article also identifies lifestyle changes in the city of São Paulo and their consequences in urban land occupation and use.

Recuperación de plusvalías para el desarrollo urbano: una comparación inter-americana

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2003
Canada
Central America
Northern America
South America

Los gobiernos locales desarrollan una amplia gama de políticas fiscales o regulatorias inspiradas en la idea de que el incremento en el valor de la tierra puede ser utilizado en beneficio de la comunidad, esto es, en la recuperación de plusvalías inmobiliarias. Este trabajo compara las experiencias de recuperación de plusvalías en América del Norte (Estados Unidos y Canadá) y América Latina, discutiendo las razones que han llevado a la utilización de distintas herramientas y los diferentes resultados y grados de éxito obtenidos en su implementación.

Transformações da área-alvo da Operação Urbana Vila Leopoldina-Jaguaré pelo mercado imobiliário: a verticalização residencial como motor de desenvolvimento urbano

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2013

Na cidade contemporânea, o ambiente construído vem se modificando, observandose a presença de áreas em transformação de uso e esvaziamento. Em São Paulo, a transformação do ambiente construído mediante esse processo, frente à dinâmica de ocupação do solo e reconfiguração de áreas pela via do mercado imobiliário, parece se consagrar como a principal força de produção do espaço urbano, apesar da existência de instrumentos urbanísticos de indução do desenvolvimento da cidade, articulado pela regulação do poder público municipal.

Spatial safeguarding efficiency in European countries and Serbia

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2002
Serbia

The short review of the space protection efficiency in European countries and in Serbia has been given. The role of instruments and measures of land policy and corresponding combinations of stimulative and destimulative instruments of economic and fiscal policy, with provision of programming and other support in efficient space protection and reservation in European countries has been investigated.