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From disaster risk construction to disaster risk reduction: exploring the agency of urban land-use planning in Chile
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis, 2020)
This paper explores how the existing urban land-use regulatory framework and its associated planning practices in Chile have contributed to disaster risk construction in urban areas. It uses Actor Network Theory as an ...
Land use changes negatively affect soil fauna communities: preliminary results of a meta-analysis
(German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, 2020)
Soil fauna plays an important role for delivering ecosystem services, such as food production, climate mitigation and soil erosion. However, land-use changes can alter the characteristics of soil fauna communities which ...
Land Use detection with cell phone data using topic models: Case Santiago, Chile
(Elsevier, 2017)
Today we have the opportunity without precedents to analyze human land use or mobility behavior in a city, country or even the globe. Some studies have analyzed existing data generated daily by mobile networks, mostly using ...
Survey-based modeling of land-use intensity in agricultural frontiers of the Argentine dry Chaco
(Pergamon, 2019-11)
The rise of large-scale farms in modern-day agricultural frontiers has frequently displaced and fragmented smallholder farming due to an unbalanced competition for land and water resources. A better understanding of land-use ...
Impact of land use changes on the hydrological properties of volcanic ash soils in South Ecuador
(2002-06)
The effect of land use on the water retention capacity of Umbric Andosols in south Ecuador was studied. The objective was to acquire a better insight into the hydrological processes of the ecosystem and the role of the ...
Native forest loss in the Chilean biodiversity hotspot: revealing the evidence
(Springer Verlag, 2017)
© 2016, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. The understanding of the spatial and temporal patterns in land use and land cover (LULC) change is a key issue for conservation efforts. In the Chilean hotspot, different studies ...