General Objective: Expand knowledge regarding the urban environmental quality of the cities of Ecuador, considering a framework of complex adaptive systems that integrates different socio-ecological dimensions from a space-time approach and establishes sustainability criteria that includes these dimensions, generating a box of tools that can be applied in the dynamics of urban planning of neo-tropical cities.
Specific objectives
- Quantify, for the period 2007-2017, the relationship between the spatiotemporal variability of some atmospheric pollutants (SO2, PM2.5, O3, NO2, CO) and changes in land cover (Agriculture, Forests, Green Areas, Impermeable surface, Soils, Water) in a Latin American city of the Andes, Quito Case.
- Determine the relationship between the spatiotemporal variability of some air pollutants considering the recent global health emergency in cities of the Andes and the Ecuadorian coast, Quito and Guayaquil case.
- Discuss the environmental variations that occurred in Quito, considering random or unplanned circumstances such as: the public protests of October 2019 and the global health emergency, which strongly affected the anthropogenic footprint in terms of reduction of contamination by industries, traffic, etc
- Develop a virtual tool, as a result of an articulated network for environmental monitoring, that integrates the results of this research, and allows it to be fed with results of new research, promoting the dissemination of science; and, its applicability through the generation of information to citizens about the environmental variations of their cities.
Participating Institutions:
UTI, UCE, UDLA.
Participants:
Director of the project Santiago Patricio Bonilla Bedoya.
- Santiago Patricio Bonilla Bedoya
- Julio Danilo Mejía Coronel
- Rasa Zalakeviciute
Awarded budget: $45000
Project status: Signing of agreements.
