Browsing by Author "Wagemann, Elizabeth"

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    Desalinización: oportunidades y desafíos para abordar la inseguridad hídrica en chile
    (Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología, Conocimiento e Innovación, 2022) Vicuña, Sebastián; Daniele, Linda; Farías, Laura; González, Humberto; Marquet, Pablo A.; Palma Behnke, Rodrigo; Stehr, Alejandra; Urquiza, Anahí; Wagemann, Elizabeth; Arenas Herrera, María J.; Bórquez, Rodrigo; Cornejo Ponce, Lorena; Delgado, Verónica; Etcheberry, Gabriel; Fragkou, María Christina; Fuster, Rodrigo; Gelcich, Stefan; Melo, Óscar; Monsalve, Tamara; Olivares, Marcelo; Ramajo, Laura; Ramírez Pascualli, Carlos; Rojas, Carolina; Rojas, Christian; Vilca Salinas, Patricia; Winckler, Patricio; Winckler, Patricio; Lambert, Fabrice
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    Implementing the New Urban Agenda: a platform of Sustainable Urban Design Interventions (IDUS) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)
    (2018) Greene Zuñiga, Margarita; Mora, Rodrígo; Hermida, M. Augusta; Monteiro,Circe; Villarreal, Amado; Pinto, Patricio X.; Arriagada, Camilo; Herrmann, Geraldine; Inzulza, Jorge; Wagemann, Elizabeth
    With the aim of supporting the implementation of the NUA agreed at Habitat III, the Network of Sustainable Urban Development for Latin America and the Caribbean, REDEUS_LAC, aimed at selecting, disseminating and, where possible, monitoring Sustainable Urban Design Interventions (IDUS, for its acronym in Spanish) in the LAC Region. Aware of the complexity of determining the sustainability of urban interventions of different scale and scope, an international group of fifteen members of REDEUS_LAC with different experience -academics from social areas, urban planners, architects, economists, together with professionals from public and private sector organizations- have devised a peer review and evaluation system. The design of such a system involved discussing both the traditional definitions of the term 'sustainable development' as well as the 'resilience' perspective to urban space. The consensual decision was to consider four dimensions –socio cultural, environmental, governance and economic– which were subsequently operationalized in 17 attributes. A rubric was designed considering that each blind evaluator qualifies them by awarding points and stars by dimension. Thus, a digital IDUS platform with two or more stars is built. This also considers the possibility that, later, comments and opinions regarding the subsequent sustainability of the work will be added, enriching the state of the art and promoting open and informed debate to all the sectors involved in the construction of the city. The proposed article describes the sustainability evaluation system: the data matrix to post IDUS on the platform, the rubric, and the categorizations/typologies of IDUS determined up to now. Finally, as an example, three cases are presented according to their scale and type with their respective evaluations: one 'local replicable' IDUS, another 'city unique', and finally a 'metropolitan/regional strategy' IDUS implemented in LAC.
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    Localising urban sustainability indicators: the CEDEUS indicator set, and lessons from an expert-driven process
    (Elsevier Ltd., 2020) Steiniger, Stefan; Wagemann, Elizabeth; Barrera Melgarejo, Francisco Javier de la; Molinos Senante, María; Villegas Salgado, Rodrigo Andrés; Fuente, Helen de la; Vives Vergara, Alejandra; Arce, Guillermo; Herrera Maldonado, Juan Carlos; Carrasco Montagna, Juan Antonio; Pasten González, Pablo Arturo; Muñoz Abogabir, Juan Carlos; Barton, Jonathan Richard; CEDEUS (Chile)
    The development and application of urban sustainability indicators has gained momentum in recent years, especially since the generation of specific urban indicators for the Agenda 2030. Urban sustainability is a broad concept involving many dimensions, therefore the generation of a short, but comprehensive list of indicators is a significant challenge. In this paper, we present a set of 29 indicators designed to characterise urban sustainability in Chile, which we also expect to be relevant to other cities, particularly in the Global South where issues of poverty and inequality are prevalent. We first outline the process of selecting the indicators through expert consultation. Then we present selected indicators, and the variables used to measure them. Subsequently the set is applied to six Chilean cities that are diverse in terms of population, socio-economic conditions and geography. We show that some indicators highlight negative nationwide trends that are common to the cities, while other indicators reveal notable differences that can be traced back to their local contexts. The CEDEUS indicators provide a complement to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for cities; therefore, a comparison is made with the SDGs. The indicator development process is critically examined and policy recommendations are given.
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    Resilience is more than resistance: two experiences from the 2010 earthquake and tsunami
    (2020) Wagemann, Elizabeth; Alençon Castrillón, Renato d'; Greene, Margarita; CEDEUS (Chile)
    In the face of a natural catastrophe, resistance is a necessary but not sufficient condition. A building can withstand an earthquake or a flood, but that does not mean that the life it held will go back to be developed in a normal way. Hence, based on the experience after the 2010 earthquake, this text advocates resilience as a key concept, a scope of which goes far beyond mere material resistance.