Urban Growth and Environmental Concerns: The Venture of the Greater Mexico City Metropolitan Area

Graizbord, Boris; Granillo, José Luis González

doi:10.1111/polp.12292

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“…However, in the past 70 years, new settlements have arisen throughout this southern sector (Graizbord & González Granillo, 2019). In the northern half, the vast majority of the 2,132 small scales (0.5-5ha) green areas are present, surrounded by the urban matrix.…”

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Maintaining and Improving Biodiversity in Urban Centers: Landscape Spatial Design in Mexico City and New York City

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Fernández

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ContextLarge cities contain different sizes and distributions of green spaces in a sea of buildings and roads. This urban landscape establishes the habitat for different species that persist in cities.ObjectivesHow does this “archipelago” of habitat space function? How does the arrangement of green spaces affect plant and animal species' biodiversity and movement through this urban pattern?MethodsBy using Patch Analyst Metrics, we propose a novel method to analyze and improve the current spatial arrangement of green spaces using Mexico City and New York City, long-established urban areas.ResultsThe two cities differ in the number, size, and spatial distribution of green spaces. Frequency analysis suggests that Mexico City has a high number of large green spaces for native species conservation; but most of them are in one vast cluster of green areas at the south. In New York City large spaces are distributed along the whole territory, comprising most potential habitats, but it has much more small areas. This spatial analysis shows particular areas in which both cities have the potential to add connectivity among existing green spaces for dispersal of many taxa of plants and animals. ConclusionsMuch data is available on the potential dispersion through cities, but a better framework for understanding the existing distribution is needed for future landscape decisions. Results suggest ways that new urban areas can better increase plant and animal movement patterns.

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Maintaining and Improving Biodiversity in Urban Centers: Landscape Spatial Design in Mexico City and New York City

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Fernández

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“…Esta presión es un reto para cualquier administración, junto con la planeación limitada, la corrupción y los problemas de desigualdad en la distribución de bienes y servicios. Una de las consecuencias ha sido el escaso control en los cambios de uso de suelo y la pérdida de ecosistemas naturales, lo que vulnera la sostenibilidad urbana de la región en general y de la CDMX en particular (Chelleri, Schuetze y Salvati, 2015;Graizbord y González, 2019;Manuel-Navarrete et al, 2019).…”

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Los pagos por servicios ambientales en la Ciudad de México: un enfoque de coherencia de políticas públicas

Arenas¹,

Koff²,

Maganda³

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Objetivo: analizar dos programas de pagos por servicios ambientales aplicados en el Suelo de Conservación de la Ciudad de México, utilizando el marco teórico-metodológico de coherencia de políticas públicas para el desarrollo. Metodología: análisis cualitativo basado en la tipología de coherencia de políticas públicas para el desarrollo. Resultados: los beneficiarios de los programas dependen económicamente de los subsidios otorgados, existen restricciones para el desarrollo de actividades productivas, los mecanismos financieros son ineficientes y falta una visión de sostenibilidad que considere las dimensiones socioeconómicas. Limitaciones: escasa participación de las autoridades y comuneros en este tipo de estudios y falta de información sobre las interrelaciones de instituciones y programas de trabajo. Valor: analizar las políticas públicas periurbanas mediante la coherencia de políticas públicas para el desarrollo. Conclusiones: aplicar el marco teórico-metodológico de la coherencia de políticas públicas para el desarrollo brinda elementos para identificar descompensaciones y sinergias entre las dimensiones analizadas. Esta metodología puede fomentar la transversalización de la visión de sostenibilidad.

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“…Unequal urban growth has also translated into an uneven spatial distribution of soaring environmental and health impacts associated to air, water, and soil pollution, a condition expected to aggravate within an environmental and climate changing context [5][6][7][8].…”

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Climate-Environmental Governance in the Mexico Valley Metropolitan Area: Assessing Local Institutional Capacities in the Face of Current and Future Urban Metabolic Dynamics

Ramos¹

2021

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This paper focuses on the evaluation of local institutional capacities for advancing climate-environmental governance in the Mexico Valley Metropolitan Area (MVMA). It starts with a brief contextualization of the MVMA, followed by an estimation of current and tendential urban inflows and outflows by 2050 with the objective of delineating the challenges and potential implications ahead. Next, an assessment of local climate-environmental institutional capacities is offered. For that, the methodology and main outcomes of the so-called ICI-CLIMA index is presented for 2019. A qualitative discussion continues in order to assert the challenges and opportunities for advancing a coordinated urban agenda for sustainability and resilience. Such discussion has been enriched with documental and other type of information gathered through field research in all of the 76 municipalities that comprise the MVMA. The paper concludes that, in addition to the limited current climate-environmental local capacities, there is a mismatch between them and both the level of climate vulnerability officially identified and the environmental challenges currently facing. Therefore, for coping with a tendential scenario of increasing urban inflows and outflows and their associated climate-environmental implications, MVMA governments will have to improve their capacities while advancing, at all levels of government, the coordination of climate-environmental agendas, and of the later with urban planning and development agendas.

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Urban Growth and Environmental Concerns: The Venture of the Greater Mexico City Metropolitan Area

Cited by 11 publications

References 7 publications

Maintaining and Improving Biodiversity in Urban Centers: Landscape Spatial Design in Mexico City and New York City

Maintaining and Improving Biodiversity in Urban Centers: Landscape Spatial Design in Mexico City and New York City

Los pagos por servicios ambientales en la Ciudad de México: un enfoque de coherencia de políticas públicas

Climate-Environmental Governance in the Mexico Valley Metropolitan Area: Assessing Local Institutional Capacities in the Face of Current and Future Urban Metabolic Dynamics

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