Ecología política de los riesgos naturales y de la contaminación ambiental en Santiago de Chile: necesidad de justicia ambiental.

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Hugo Romero Aravena
Claudio Fuentes Catalán
Pamela Smith Guerra
Santiago´s air pollution and natural hazard issues are analyzed and assessed from the politic ecology and the environmental justice approaches, being both considered complex socionatural problems. Spatial relationships between urban sprawl and its environmental issues are presented and laterly, related to the distribution of socioeconomic groups. It could be confirmed that negative environmental conditions affect specially to lower economic income population generating a lack of environmental justice and that these kind of problems only might be solved trought efficient and focused public policies, environmental compensation procedures and an active social participation.

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Romero Aravena, Hugo et al. “Ecología política de los riesgos naturales y de la contaminación ambiental en Santiago de Chile: necesidad de justicia ambiental”. Scripta Nova: revista electrónica de geografía y ciencias sociales, vol.VOL 14, https://raco.cat/index.php/ScriptaNova/article/view/200033.