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Citizen’s Observatory of Mexico town: collaborative making of territorial knowledge.

November 18th, 2010 No comments

S. GONZALEZ ARELLANO, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico.


Citizen’s Observatory of Mexico town: collaborative making of territorial knowledge.


L’observatoire citoyen de la ville de Mexico : constuction collaborative de savoirs territoriaux.


Observatorio Ciudadano de la Ciudad de México: construcción colaborativa de saberes territoriales




La presente comunicación describe y analiza la experiencia del Observatorio Ciudadano de la Ciudad de México (OCCM), como instrumento innovador en el proceso de construcción colaborativa de saberes territoriales. La presentación describe primeramente una brevemente el contexto de creación y desarrollo inicial del OCCM. Enseguida se analiza el proceso de participación, y la producción, difusión y apropiación de la información territorial de esta metrópolis. Finalmente se analiza el impacto de este observatorio sobre las estrategias territoriales y gobernanza de la ciudad.

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Theoretical discussion on economic valuation of greenness: from ecosystem services to green infrastructures.

November 18th, 2010 No comments

A. MAREK, C. VIAUD-MOUCLIER, J-M. HALLEUX, G. DEVILLET, Université de Liège, Belgique.


Theoretical discussion on economic valuation of greeness: from ecosystem services to green infrastructures.

Discussion théorique sur l’évaluation économique des activités vertes: des services d’écosystèmes aux infrastructures vertes.

Discusión teórica sobre la evaluación económica de los actividades verdes: servicios de los ecosistemas a la infraestructura verde.


Considering the current concern about greenness and the protection of nature, this paper discusses the potential of economic valuation in order to understand the value of natural greenness, i.e. biodiversity and the value of manmade greenness such as green infrastructures.

The first part focuses on Nature through the concept of ecosystem services.

Biodiversity, which is expressed through ecosystem services (ES), provides human society with a large variety of goods such as food, clean air and water, fossil fuels, healthy soil, etc. (Salles 2010). While our wellbeing is linked to the existence of these services, they are mainly public goods which are often excluded from our current economic priorities (TEEB 2008). In fact, ecosystem services lack consideration in decisionmaking although there is a consensus about the importance of biodiversity in resource management (Nelson 2009). Economic valuation aims to (…) Read more…

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