La Gestión Urbana Ambiental En América Latina, 1970 - 2017

Abstract

While Urban Environmental Management has received increasing worldwide attention in the last 50 years, much of the international attention to this growing field has focused, as is the case with most scientific fields, on the English language literature. Nevertheless, much professional work of interest has been taking place in Latin America, where the problems of the urban environment have been identified early and considered major difficulties in the development of this heavily urbanised region. Consequently, the purpose of the research that this article summarises is to address the Spanish and Portuguese language literature written in Latin America on Latin America itself to identify the trends in the field that have emerged, and are continuing to emerge, there and, eventually, to determine what lessons they offer to other regions. Keywords: Urban Environmental Management, Latin America, urban planning ResumenMientras que la gestión ambiental urbana ha recibido creciente atención mundial en los últimos 50 años, gran parte de la atención internacional hacia este campo creciente se ha centrado, como es el caso con la mayoría de los campos de la ciencia, en la literatura de lengua inglesa. No obstante, gran parte del trabajo profesional de interés ha tenido lugar en América Latina, donde los problemas del medio ambiente urbano han sido