This work explores the extent to which urban integration is related to a better quality of life in the metropolitan areas of Santiago, Valparaiso and Concepcion. This challenge has not been addressed so far as a result of ...

In wildfire-prone urban-rural interface areas, policies for fostering wildfire resilient timber construction need to consider the risks associated with the interaction between wildfires and buildings, implementing wildfire ...

Urban agriculture came to stand out in the world scenario in the last years of the twentieth century and beginning of the XXI, due to the greater concern of the population with food security and the aggravation of social, ...

Since the late 1980s, a new vocabulary associated with concerns about climate change has emerged. Nevertheless, this article argues that the concepts used to describe urban adaptation are a part of the history of urban ...

Facing the unbridled anthropic actions, the fragmentation and disturbance of urban forest fragments have been causing, on a global scale, the decline of species populations, genetic losses, extinction processes, reduction ...