Conflicts over use of urban and regional spaces in the time of climate changes. Good management and planning practices
Author(s): / Language(s): English
Keywords: city; region; spatial planning; Colombia; Warsaw; sustainable development
The areas inhabited by man have always been an arena of conflict. The more developed regions attract new residents, who seek their place and work there. Excessive migration causes congestion, lack of space for new buildings and hence conflicts. The city is a specific area of conflict - over land, over access to infrastructure, over housing, over jobs. Excessive urban development, which exceeds the limits of efficient area management, contributes to the deterioration of living conditions – transport chaos, social segregation, inefficient public services, air pollution. Conflicts over water, over sustainable electricity, over resources, over access to education are also everyday topics in all parts of the world. We present our readers with a monograph devoted to some of the above-mentioned problems, which are common for Poland and for Latin American countries. This publication is a continuation of the topics discussed in earlier monographs, which were the result of joint research of Polish and Latin American geographers within many projects dedicated to urban issues. Academics of the Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies of Warsaw University have been lecturers at doctoral studies in urban and regional sustainable development and post-doctoral studies in Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Manizales in Colombia (Doctorado en Desarrollo Sostenible y Posdoctorado en Ciencias de la Tierra y el Medio Ambiente). Doctoral students and lecturers from the University of Manizales have visited Poland many times in joint symposia and workshops). In 2017 a Polish-Colombian monograph in Spanish was published in Colombia and in 2018 two scientific monographs, both in Spanish and English, were brought out by the University of Warsaw Press. This volume is the first of the two published in 2021 and contains only English texts on sustainable development, risk and local development in Poland, Colombia and some other South American countries.
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