DR. LUIS INOSTROZA
My research interests lays on spatial evolution of urban systems, their physical and economic effects on land use-land cover changes, land markets and urban policy, with especial attention to dynamics of urban systems in Latin America and Europe. I integrate quantitative analysis, remote sensing and GIS to understand the spatial structure of urban socio-ecological systems, and its links to ecological and economic functions.
9th IALE World Congress
04.07.2015
IUFRO Landscape Ecology Conference
23.08.2015
UPCOMING EVENTS
The 5th World Sustainability Forum
07.09.2015
MY LATEST RESEARCH
The concept of Ecosystem Services has gained traction on the scientific agenda and has found its way into research on urban environments. Cities like any other ecosystem, provide specific services to their inhabitants and they are benefited by surrounding ecosystems as well. Among the different categories, typical Ecosystem Services categories such as food production and erosion control usually have a lesser importance within urban contexts. However, the very diverse range of land uses and ecosystems in urban contexts provide specific Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES) including recreational, cultural and educational values. However, to date only limited attention has been given to the provision of CES, especially considering the relevant benefits that communities and urban planning processes can derive from them.
Cities are complex systems of accumulated matter. The continuous process of matter accumulation in
urban systems differs in intensity across the globe according to specific urban features, such as location
and age of the urban tissue, and as a physical manifestation of metabolic lineaments, material accumulation should differ amongst cities. In this paper, a new indicator to measure this process of material accumulation is proposed, namely, the Technomass.
