Abstract

CASTILLO OROPEZA, Oscar Adán. Towards a Latin American Political Ecology of Urban Disaster: Some notes for discussion. Estudios Socioterritoriales [online]. 2019, vol.25. ISSN 1853-4392.

In this text, it is proposed from the perspective of the Urban Political Ecology (UPE), to raise some reflections on what could be considered as Latin American Political Ecology of the Urban Disaster. The objective is to understand urban disasters as socio-environmental processes, related to the urbanization of nature and not as simple natural phenomena. This is a first approach to a characterization and definition of disasters in the city as objects of hybrid study, which aims to escape traditional studies on political ecology and disasters. Finally, it is concluded that the UPE approach offers a series of novel elements for the construction of a future research program on urban disasters, which needs to be tested in the near future.

Keywords : Urban political ecology (UPE); Urban disaster; Socio-environmental processes; Urbanization of nature.

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