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The Essence of Crisis Decision‐Making: Saving Ravenna During the 2023 Floods

Risk, Hazards &Crisis in Public Policy, Volume 17, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article explores decision‐making processes in crisis situations by proposing an interpretive framework grounded in multiple criteria of rationality. Crises, characterized by uncertainty, urgency, and ethical dilemmas, require critical choices that go beyond standard procedures.
Alexandra D'Angelo, Federico Toth
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Papel del espacio urbano en el fortalecimiento de la conciencia de lo público

Palabra Clave, 2009
El caos urbano no es consecuencia de nuestra historia hispánica, ni el resultado de siglos de atraso. Por el contrario, si algo ha probado la cruda realidad de manera contundente, es que en la medida en que las sociedades hispanoamericanas interrumpieron
Ricardo Zornosa Salazar
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Exiled From Their Own Lands: Indigenist Policies, Oil, and Colonial Plunder in 20th Century Venezuela

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the historical displacement of Indigenous peoples in Venezuela, focusing on the links between indigenist policies and the exploitation of natural resources, particularly oil, throughout the 20th century. Using a combined historical and ethnographic approach, it demonstrates how the formation of the Venezuelan nation‐state
Gabriel Tardelli
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Urban Growth and Long-Term Transformations in Spanish Cities Since the Mid-Nineteenth Century: A Methodology to Determine Changes in Urban Density. [PDF]

, 2019
The current work models urban growth in the continuous built-up areas of 47 Spanish cities from the mid-nineteenth century through to the present day. We did this by compiling a comprehensive Geographic Information System (GIS) dataset, based on a series
Alvarez Palau, Eduard, Martí Henneberg, Jordi, Solanas, Jorge   +2 more
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Urban–Wild Interface Diversity: A Comprehensive Checklist of Herpetofauna of Guayaquil, Ecuador

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 5, May 2026.
Amphibians and reptiles in Guayaquil comprise multiple taxonomic orders and occur across conservation areas, forest remnants, and urban parks, including several endemic species and numerous taxa with type localities in the city. Although most species are globally classified as Least Concern, discrepancies between global and national threat assessments ...
Keyko Cruz‐García, Natalia Zapata‐Salvatierra, Andrea E. Narváez, Julián Pérez‐Correa   +3 more
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Presentación volumen 3, número 1 (2016)

Revista Ciudades, Estados y Política, 2016
La Revista Ciudades, Estados y Política, de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Instituto de Estudios Urbanos (IEU), es una publicación científica, publicada en formato impreso y digital, de acceso abierto desde la web.
Revista Ciudades, Estados y Política
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Mangado y las ciudades [PDF]

, 2004
Me parece tan ilustrativo como de justicia empezar esta presentación de la arquitectura de Mangado observando como, en el gran edificio realizado para su propia ciudad, Pamplona, el cuidado puesto en el respeto y la mejora del lugar se impone, a mi ...
González Capitel, Antón
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Environmental governance in the face of collapse: The case of Acapulco, Mexico, between tourist splendour and ecological risk

Ecological Solutions and Evidence, Volume 7, Issue 2, April/June 2026.
Underwater clean‐up efforts in Acapulco Bay reveal the visible consequences of chronic coastal pollution. This study shows how Environmental Risk Assessments (ERAs) can integrate scientific evidence, regulatory frameworks and practitioner experience to identify pollution sources and guide more effective coastal governance in cities of the Global South.
Sinuhé Hernández Márquez, María Eugenia Zamudio‐Resendiz, María Luisa Núñez Resendiz, Montserrat Murrieta Alarcón, Alejandro Federico Alva Martínez, Laura Margarita Márquez Valdelamar, Nelly María López Ortiz, Carlos Alberto Sandoval Navarrete, Alberto Pérez Rojas, Alma Socorro Sobrino Figueroa, Yanin Islas Barrios, Ricardo Caballero Fuentes, Nataly Graciela Santos Bustos, Abel Sentíes   +13 more
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When Proximity Falls Short: Inequalities in Commuting and Accessibility by Public Transport in Santiago, Chile

Geographical Analysis, Volume 58, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Traditional measures of urban accessibility often rely on static models or survey data. However, location information from mobile networks enables large‐scale, dynamic analyses of how people navigate cities. In this study, we employ eXtended Detail Records (XDRs) from mobile phone activity to analyze commuting patterns and accessibility ...
Cesar Marin‐Flores, Leo Ferres, Henrikki Tenkanen   +2 more
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Androcentrism and public space: exploratory analysis on the under-representation of women in the urban nomenclature of the City of Buenos Aires

Feminismo/s, 2019
With the advent of the modern industrial order, public space was instituted as a sphere of male domination. Accordingly, through out history, cities were marked materially and symbolically by those men who constitute the hegemonic center of social life ...
Lucía Elena Cavalo
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