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2. Las paradojas de la resiliencia: miradas cruzadas entre Colombia y Francia.
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Rebotier, Julien, Peláez, Juanita López, and Pigeon, Patrick
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ECOLOGICAL resilience , *ORGANIZATIONAL resilience , *ENVIRONMENTAL risk assessment , *ZONING law , *TWENTY-first century , *GOVERNMENT policy ,VULNERABILITY (Psychology) -- Social aspects ,COLOMBIAN politics & government ,FRENCH politics & government - Abstract
This paper investigates a discrepancy concerning resilience. International institutions such as ISDR try to promote resilience as a notion useful for preventing disasters. And some searchers, mainly coming from ecology, such as Resilience Alliance group, found the notion relevant enough to promote it as a brand for their studies on disaster prevention. Yet, the second part of the paper will verify how other searchers are still not convinced by the relevance of the notion. Territorial managers are reluctant as well, in line with the poor number of policies trying to bring resilience to reality, be it in Columbia or in France. How can we make sense of this discrepancy? The paper will stress on various political, institutional and cultural conditionings hidden behind the notion. It will also enlighten the contradictions embedded within the notion, because resilience, as disaster, depends on the scales and the actors the analysis relies on first. Which resilience to whom and at what scale? These are critical questions that should be addressed in order to give sense to these contradictions. Resilience has no absolute meaning. However, it helps identifying trends towards future disasters. This is one of the main reasons why it may be found useful. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
3. Cuerpos migrantes: resistencias culturales y desigualdades entrelazadas.
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Duarte Bernal, Diana
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PUBLIC spaces ,POWER (Social sciences) ,PSYCHOLOGICAL vulnerability ,EMPIRICAL research ,EQUALITY ,ENUNCIATION ,EVERYDAY life - Abstract
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- 2022
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4. Vulnerabilidad energética en la metrópoli de Buenos Aires.
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Carrizo, Silvina, Noelle Carre, Marie, and Igor Michaux, Jean
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GOVERNMENT policy on energy consumption , *POWER resources management , *FOSSIL fuels , *GOVERNMENT policy on climate change ,ARGENTINE politics & government, 2002- - Abstract
In line with recommendations of the International Energy Agency, Argentina has recently made energy efficiency a national priority. Buenos Aires is committed to various international programs to rationalize the use of energy and tackle growing Climate Change challenges. Initiatives to modify the terms and conditions of energy supply and consumption are appearing at different scales, revealing the precariousness and vulnerability of the whole system. Thus, this paper sheds light on the main drawbacks of Argentine Energy Model and it presents some of the changes taking place regarding these issues. It focuses on strategies and measures promoted to prepare Buenos Aires metropolitan region for critical situations. In general initiatives are implemented individually and they result insufficient to meet the challenges. The continuity of Argentine Energy Model based on the intensive use of fossil fuels that serve infrastructure functioning near its maximum capacity and territories not prepared for potential crises, could explain metropolitan energy system vulnerability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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