Building sustainable urban metabolism through resilience strategies in La Pila, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
In a world, whose cities are constantly growing, -consuming more resources than the ones they produce-, sustainability must be enhanced to ensure the ability of future generations to satisfy their needs. Therefore, this work aims to propose resilience strategies that enable sustainable urban metabol...
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| Tipo de documento: | dissertação |
| Estado: | Versão publicada |
| Data de publicação: | 2018 |
| País: | México |
| Recursos: | Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí |
| Repositório: | Repositorio Institucional de la UASLP |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorioinstitucional.uaslp.mx:i/4536 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://repositorioinstitucional.uaslp.mx/xmlui/handle/i/4536 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | Sistema Urbano Socio-Ecológico, Metabolismo Urbano, Resiliencia Urbana, Urban Socio-Ecological System, Urban Metabolism, Urban Resilience 5 CIENCIAS SOCIALES |
| Resumo: | In a world, whose cities are constantly growing, -consuming more resources than the ones they produce-, sustainability must be enhanced to ensure the ability of future generations to satisfy their needs. Therefore, this work aims to propose resilience strategies that enable sustainable urban metabolism for a specific Urban Socio-Ecological System (USES): The peri-urban community of La Pila, which is located in the Metropolitan Zone of San Luis Potosi, Mexico. In this context, specific objectives included: 1) To identify the metabolic fluxes in La Pila: Water, Energy & Food; 2) To identify hazards to the metabolic fluxes; and 3) To analyze how resilient is the urban metabolism of La Pila. An adaptation of the Resilience Assessment Framework proposed by the Resilience Alliance (2010) -USES Resilience Assessment based on Urban Metabolism-, was done in order to achieve the objectives, through six steps: 1) Developing Systems Perspective for Urban Socio-Ecological Systems; 2) Defining the Urban Metabolism for USES; 3) Defining the Hazards to the Metabolic Fluxes; 4) Urban Resilience Assessment based on the Risk Assessment; 5) Building Resilience in USES; and 6) Resilience Strategies Implementation. As a result, urban resilience was assessed for the urban socio-ecological system at a household scale, through the analysis of the hazards that threaten the household’s supply, –considering the Water, Energy and Food inflows-, and the households themselves. Finally, resilience strategies were proposed as recommendations to build sustainable urban metabolism in La Pila. |
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