Journal of Transport Geography

Rodrigo Mora, Ricardo Truffello y Gabriel Oyarzún

Smart Cities for Technological and Social Innovation

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Public Health

Carlos Mejia-Arbelaez, Olga L. Sarmiento, Mora Vega, Mónica Flores Castillo, Ricardo Truffello, Lina Martínez, Catalina Medina, Oscar Guaje, José David Pinzón, Andrés F Useche, David Rojas-Rued, Xavier Delclòs-Alió

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Town Planning Review

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Revista CS

Alejandra Luneke, Fernanda Varela

Water Resources of Chile

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Población & Sociedad

Ana Maria Alvarez Rojas, Héctor Cavieres Higuera, Angelo Patricio Ibarra González, Ricardo Truffello Robledo, Gabriela Ulloa Contador

Revista de Urbanismo

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This chapter presents the status of groundwater resources in Chile focusing on two relevant aspects. First, the geological and climatic aspects that shape the country’s hydrogeological configuration. These, in turn, provide the context for the hydrogeological configuration within the country. Then, based on the official information provided by the Dirección General de Aguas, DGA, a quantification of groundwater resources in the different hydrogeological administrative units is presented. To illustrate the different typologies of aquifer encountered in the country, some examples of relevant hydrogeological basins are described. Through these examples, we also display different problems that are foreseen in terms of groundwater knowledge, overexploitation, restricted areas, water quality, and climate change, among other factors. Finally, based on the information found, future challenges related to groundwater resources are presented.

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El territorio de Wallmapu Araucanía desde su incorporación a la República de Chile como la Región de la Araucania, ha sido objeto de importantes transformaciones territoriales. Este artículo utiliza la perspectiva de la ecología política histórica para comprender cómo la construcción de paisajes culturales se convirtió en un dispositivo para ejercer el poder hegemónico. Estos paisajes de poder evolucionaron con el tiempo a medida que se establecieron diferentes demandas en este territorio: primero a partir del ‘Granero de Chile’ a finales del siglo XIX y luego bajo la explotación forestal del ‘Oro verde’ durante los siglos XX y XXI. Ambos paisajes han posibilitado la instalación de un sentido común dominante asociado al modernidad, progreso y desarrollo en Wallmapu/Araucanía, que ha influido en el conflicto Estado-Pueblo Mapuche.

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Revista de urbanismo

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Regional Science and Urban Economics

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Choice of public transport technologies in cities is not straightforward: while the academy focuses on optimization models to determine which modes should a specific city have, policy makers rely on simple recommendations which are based on city population and income. We estimated six types of classification models that could allow for more precise recommendations yet are simple enough to be applied by the authorities. We considered typical variables as population and Gross Domestic Product of cities but also geographic and morphologic characteristics in a database of 400 cities from North and South America. Ordered Probit and Multinomial Logit models were the most accurate, with a success rate over 80% in the validation subset. Among the explanatory variables, city population and GDP per capita were as expected the most significant, but fare integration, car ownership and city shape were also relevant. Even if existent public transport modes in cities are not necessarily optimal, the classification models developed can give an insight for policy makers, in the sense that cities whose public transportation complexity cannot be explained by the models are more likely to have a suboptimal public transportation system.

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Journal of Transport Geography

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