María Luisa Torregrosa

Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales sede México · Maestría y Doctorado en Ciencias Sociales

Calidad del agua y y salud de ecosistemas. Ecosistemas acuáticos y los vertimientos. Contaminantes emergentes como antibioticos y mas.

El presente libro es una instantánea de algunos componentes del ciclo hidrosocial de la gestión del agua en Guanajuato. Cada uno de sus capítulos ejemplifica una parte de la dinámica entre las características del propio territorio con su disponibilidad del recurso hídrico y los procesos sociales, económicos y políticos situados en el conjunto del e...

Análisis de las políticas de modernización y transferencia de los Distritos de Riego en México.

As the Americas become increasingly urbanized, the challenges of providing water supplies for domestic and industrial uses continue to multiply in number and difficulty. Similarly, the problems of collecting, treating, and managing wastewater grow in magnitude and present their own special challenges to urban areas throughout the hemisphere. This a...

Water resources are key to supporting and strengthening sustainable development in the American hemisphere and globally. Water Quality in the Americas: Risks and Opportunities is a unified effort by the Academies of Sciences from 21 countries of the Americas and is the work of a team of 148 authors, all experts in different aspects of water science...

La construcción de un territorio es una actividad compleja que es necesario comprender. El caso de Milpa Alta puede ilustrarnos al respecto ya que el espacio se está recreando constantemente a partir de una confrontación territorial entre dos fuerzas sociales en pugna: por un lado el gobierno que intenta preservarlo para su conservación ecológica;...

This volume is the second in a series on water, published in both Spanish and English, and intended to reach a wide policy audience. The first volume offered a broad assessment of the status of water resources in the Americas. This second volume addresses the fundamental problem of urban water challenges. The Hemisphere of the Americas is among the...

The chapter presents the now a day situation of the water in the urban context in Mexico, as well as the future challenges for the wáter security.

This book, published in 2013, is an updated and extended version of José Esteban Castro and Léo Heller (Eds.), Water and Sanitation Services: Public Policy and Management (Earthscan, 2009; Routledge, 2012) and contains 5 new chapters on Brazil and 1 on Venezuela. O livro estrutura-se com base em vários pressupostos, que proporcionam um arcabouço c...

This book is an updated and extended version of José Esteban Castro and Léo Heller (Eds.), Water and Sanitation Services: Public Policy and Management (Earthscan, 2009; Routledge, 2012) and contains 5 new chapters on Brazil and 1 on Venezuela. Substantially reducing the number of human beings who lack access to clean water and safe sanitation is on...

La presente aportación es una breve revisión del proceso político por el cual ciertos valores, creencias y orientaciones en torno a la crisis del agua se han convertido en visiones competitivas por parte de los actores relevantes en el orden internacional para estructurar una política hídrica a nivel global que busca incidir en el orden local. El c...

The book is structured on the basis of several assumptions that provide a common framework to the different contributions, although these presuppositions are the responsibility of the editors and they are not fully shared by all of the participating authors. First, we assume that WSS policies must be grounded on the principle that these services co...

Substantially reducing the number of human beings who lack access to clean water and safe sanitation is one of the key Millennium Development Goals. This book argues and demonstrates that this can only be achieved by a better integration of the technical and social science approaches in the search for improved organization and delivery of these ess...

Analysis of pending issues to solve on the management of water in Mexico based on governmental data (In Spanish)

Mexico is among the most important economies in the world, but as far as its water services coverage and the quality of these services are concerned, its achievement is not as outstanding. Along with the income inequity, water services differ notably between the urban and the rural population. This paper analyses the reasons for this situation. Aft...

Within the framework of the modernization policies of the Mexican government, the transfer of irrigation districts to the users’ associations is of significant importance but different problems must be confronted in implementation of the process, the most important of which is the various perceptions of the social actors involved. This paper review...

Tesis (Licenciado en Sociología) Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.