tailieunhanh - Urban Transportation, Land Use, and the Environment in Latin America: A Case Study Approach

Trading partner Canada has established the Canadian Adaptation and Rural Development (CARD), national and regional adaptation programs that provide assistance to the sector in the area of research, innovation, capturing market opportunities, environmental sustainability, food safety and quality, human resource capacity building and rural development. Various initiatives are being implemented under the CARD program such as the Agricultural Environmental Stewardship Initiative (AESI) which helps the agricultural and agri-food sector continue working on a number of priority environmental issues or the Canadian Rural Partnership (CRP) initiative, a cross-sectoral initiative supporting community development in rural and remote Canada. Notified Green Box measures include investment and research programs, various measures encouraging. | Urban Transportation Land Use and the Environment in Latin America A Case Study Approach Lecture 11 The Santiago Metropolitan Area Transport System Brief History Horse trams and steam trains to San Bernardo and Puente Alto by turn of Century By 1930s city has one of most extensive electric tram networks in South America - 220 kms 210 passengers year - Dismantling begun in 1945 By 1960s first land regulatory plan - Plans also laid for Metro system - Construction begun on ring road Vespucio Avenida Kennedy East to Las Condes and the PanAmerican Highway 2 olicy Context Urban Policy - Strongly influenced at national level Specific policy interests fluctuating in time with politics - 1993 policy-formulation process recs Goals decentralization environment and quality of life equity in access to goods and services economic growth and modernization more a balanced distribution of population and economic activity across the country CED et ah 1994 . Measures capacity building institutional improvement strengthened role of local governments Municipalities improvement in regional planning instruments and processes improvements in urban information systems internalization of external costs promoting the use of non-motorized transportation and shorter trips densification and mixing of land uses subcenters Ideal rhetoric but nothing formal still written. .policy vacuum prevails