Safer peripheral settlements. Instruments in the design and evaluation of environmental quality

Authors

  • Fredy del Pozo Gómez Facultad de Arquitectura. Universidad de Oriente. Santiago de Cuba. Cuba
  • G. Gómez

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5377/nexo.v24i2.659

Keywords:

Peripheral population settlements, environmental quality, vulnerability

Abstract

The vulnerability of settlement before any situation and territorial scope, is a concern, due inter alia to their strong influence on the development policies of management to disaster or adverse external events affecting the normal development of the people; Summary to diagnose the environmental quality of urbanization in a discrete space, as it is the case of the peripheral housing estates, allows analyze those factors that influence the vulnerability of these and make recommendations for implementing environmental policies that mitigate the risks. On the basis of that vulnerability is a dynamic concept that examines the risk factors, continues an instrumental for environmental assessment of settlements population peripherals (APP), in particular the conditions of the city Santiago de Cuba, where it has considered this component in its evaluative indicators. You expose instrumentation reference and his categorical system: variable, subvariables, evaluative parameters and scale of values, which is the essence of the instrumental designed theorist; likewise are histograms and arrays that comprise the instrumental assessment workshop. It will serve to assess settlements in operation and for the design of new ones, and can be generalized to other territories.

Key words: Peripheral population settlements, environmental quality, vulnerability

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5377/nexo.v24i2.659

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Author Biographies

Fredy del Pozo Gómez, Facultad de Arquitectura. Universidad de Oriente. Santiago de Cuba. Cuba

Se graduó de Arquitecto en 2004, en la Universidad de Oriente. Cuba. Obtuvo el grado Académico de Master en Hábitat y Medio Ambiente en Zonas Sísmicas. Universidad de Oriente 2010. Es proyectista Arquitectónico y Urbano. Avenida de las Américas esquina a calle L. Su área de investigación es el urbanismo y el ambiente.

G. Gómez

Graduada de Arquitecta en la Universidad de Oriente. Cuba 1975. Obtuvo el grado Académico de Master en Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo Urbano en la Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería. Nicaragua 1999. Obtuvo el título científico de Dra. Ciencias Técnicas, en la CUJAE. Habana, Cuba. 2005. Es Profesora Titular Consultante. Miembro del comité académico de la Maestría en Hábitat y Medio Ambiente en Zonas Sísmicas. Universidad de Oriente. Cuba. Miembro del Comité Académico del doctorado en Ciencias del Ambiente del PEAUT de la Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería. Managua. Nicaragua. Miembro del Tribunal Permanente de Grados Científicos de Arquitectura y Urbanismo. Cuba

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del Pozo Gómez, F., & Gómez, G. (2012). Safer peripheral settlements. Instruments in the design and evaluation of environmental quality. Nexo Scientific Journal, 24(2), 112–122. https://doi.org/10.5377/nexo.v24i2.659

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Vol. 24 No. 2 (2011)

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