Browsing by Author "Moreno, Osvaldo"

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    CAUTÍN ISLAND URBAN PARK HYDRO-ECOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR URBAN RESILIENCE
    (2023) Moreno, Osvaldo
    Located between two water courses, the Isla Cautin urban park serves as hydroecological infrastructure and public space. A sequence of floodable meadows, canals, ponds, and wetlands retains and infiltrates urban runoff, reducing the risk of flooding in a scenario where its frequency is projected to increase.
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    Observing the Wetlands of the Huasco River, Chile. Co-creation of a Space for the Dissemination of the Environmental and Cultural Values of the Landscape
    (Springer, 2024) Arizaga, Ximena; Moreno, Osvaldo; Rojas Quezada, Carolina
    © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.The project presented seeks to describe the experience of an observatory project in the Huasco wetland, which in its essence is more than a built space, and, is based on the fact of observing together. The act of observing implies in this case representing the information in order to transmit it and correct it, together, with the inhabitants of Huasco. In this way, the Huasco Wetland observatory is a collective look at the wetland and is proposed, also, as an opportunity to rethink the city and its relationship with the territory. Wetlands are fragile spaces of enormous environmental wealth that provide ecosystem services to the inhabitants. Understanding them, studying them, and reconstructing the relationship of the inhabitants with these spaces is the first step toward their active protection.
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    Salares altiplánicos de Atacama: soportes de ecologías, culturas y economías en territorios de naturaleza extrema
    (Editorial Instituto Juan De Herrera, 2021) Arizaga Soto, Ana Ximena; Moreno, Osvaldo; Román, Emilia
    El Altiplano de Atacama en el norte de Chile, se caracteriza por la existencia de sistemas hídricos de altura: ríos, lagunas y lagos salinos que sustentan ecosistemas complejos, poco estudiados y de alta relevancia, donde simultáneamente se llevan adelante desarrollos industriales y mineros de alto impacto. En medio de este imponente contexto, subsisten comunidades de pueblos originarios y tradiciones mineras que - basados en sus prácticas de habitabilidad y economía vernáculas - han modelado durante siglos un valioso paisaje cultural. De esta forma, estos paisajes de la sal se constituyen en un recurso estratégico para economías de distinta escala como son el turismo de intereses especiales y la minería, que compiten por el uso y organización del territorio. El artículo plantea una aproximación para la comprensión de las potencialidades de uso de ese territorio, basada en la delimitación de su área de influencia entendida en distintas dimensiones ambientales y socio-económicas; y, su relación con el dimensionamiento de los impactos de la industria extractiva; en miras a dilucidar la aplicabilidad del principio de precaución.
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    Urban Wetlands as Resilient Landscape Infrastructure—The Case of Llanquihue Green Infrastructure Plan, Chile
    (Springer, 2024) Moreno, Osvaldo; Rojas Quezada, Carolina
    © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.The urban green infrastructure planning approach provides an innovative conceptual and operational framework to face the current challenges of conservation and rehabilitation of urban wetlands in the context of disturbances and vulnerabilities caused by urban expansion processes, climate change and disasters. In this sense, landscape units and their components can be conceived as a potential structuring network for the city and the territory, contributing to an integrated planning of natural and anthropic systems at both spatial and functional levels, considering the relationship of their ecologies with urban infrastructure systems through nature-based solutions. The Llanquihue Green Infrastructure Plan—an applied research initiative presented in this chapter—addresses this conceptual framework to configure a landscape project based on the spatial and functional articulation of existing urban wetlands, transforming them into key elements of an infrastructure system designed to provide social benefits and ecosystem services to the city and its communities. Instead of “constructing” green spaces, with the high costs involved, the plan proposes the concept of “landscape activation” through the configuration of specific and delimited components designed to enable, equip and provide access to these areas, thereby promoting the efficiency of the public investment. The performance of these hybrid natural systems—related to the synergistic combination of ecological and anthropic components—contributes to the provision of socio-ecological functions and services related to risk reduction and adaptive capacity to climate change. At the same time, in the absence of public and green spaces, especially in vulnerable environments, it can contribute to the development of memorable places for urban living through the integration of ecologies, social programmes and multi-purpose infrastructures. From a strategic approach, this initiative is proposed as a complementary and guiding platform to feed the current urban planning instruments, as well as to generate alternative mechanisms and tools for the integrated management of landscape and public spaces, becoming a potential model to be applied in other cases of regional cities also characterised by problems related to the recovery and enhancement of urban ecosystems.