Pablo Cabrera-Barona

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• Doctor rerum naturalium (Applied Geoinformatics)
• Professor at Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences Ecuador

This study assessed the influence of socioeconomic and demographic indicators on different types of crime and explored the spatial and temporal dynamics of crime. Between 2014 and 2020, 174,365 criminal events registered in Quito, Ecuador, were collected and aggregated at an administrative area level. Time-series decompositions, spatial autocorrela...

La segregación espacial es un fenómeno estrechamente vinculado a condiciones sociodemográficas específicas de la población. Siguiendo esta premisa, se calculó el Índice de Segregación Espacial Global (ISEG) y el Índice de Segregación Espacial Areal (ISEA) para Quito. Este último fue correlacionado con variables socio-demográficas de empleo, salud,...

This paper evaluates subjective quality of life using various Machine Learning (ML) techniques. Utilizing a survey conducted in Quito’s historical downtown and adopting subjective quality of life as a theoretical framework, we applied ML regression techniques (ordinal logistic regression, random forests and support vector machines) to identify sati...

The Amazon has a population that is largely urban. However, research is limited regarding representations and analysis of the urban Amazon. This article represents and describes Amazonian urban areas by applying a multicriteria urbanization index. Using the Ecuadorian Amazon as a case study, we constructed this index considering spatial indicators...

The restrictions triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, especially during the first weeks of confinement in 2020, entailed marked changes concerning urban socio-spatial relations. This article analyzes perceptions of the importance of public space, neighbors' support, neighborhood safety, and home safety before and during the initial months of the COV...

La estigmatización territorial es un fenómeno que surge como resultado del etiquetamiento y estereotipación de un determinado lugar, y la consiguiente discriminación y pérdida de estatus. Este fenómeno está estrechamente relacionado con la disminución de los vínculos y las relaciones sociales de la población estigmatizada, y la concentración de bar...

La inclusión financiera ha tomado mucha importancia en las últimas décadas, debido a su relevancia y aporte en el desarrollo económico de los países. En este artículo se analiza la relación entre la inclusión financiera y la pobreza multidimensional. Se desarrollan tres estimaciones espaciales de panel a través de los modelos SAR, SEM y SARAR, para...

In contexts of globalization, economic restructuring and information and communication revolution, the relocation of services in peripheries and new urban expansion patterns have drastically altered periurban landscapes. However, due to its transformation speed, there is limited knowledge regarding the spatiotemporal changes of these interstitial t...

With a growing interest in the study of urban life and health, evidence indicates that the quality of the environment in which we live can have implications for our subjective well-being and health. This study assesses the potential impacts of perceptions of visual air pollution, olfactory air pollution, and noise pollution on self-perceived health...

Este trabajo explora la calidad de vida en el Distrito Metropolitano de Quito (DMQ) mediante la construcción de un índice multidimensional, con el que se analizan sus 65 parroquias. El índice sintetiza determinantes de la división social del espacio, particularmente dimensiones relacionadas con vivienda, servicios, economía, derechos sociales y con...

El confinamiento y las restricciones de movilidad durante la pandemia de COVID-19 han dado lugar a una serie de dilemas sobre el uso y percepción del espacio público, donde sus propiedades relacionales y contextuales pueden dar lugar a una diversidad de emociones. Con la aplicación de herramientas machine learning y social network analysis, explora...

The present article calculates and evaluates positive and negative sentiments about hospitals in Quito, Ecuador, which were derived from information in Twitter. We collected of tweets and-re-tweets that referred to public hospitals through Twitter API. A total of 1,138 observations (tweets and re-tweets) were collected. We performed data classifica...

Se ha visto que estos últimos años las presiones sobre el territorio y los pueblos amazónicos se han vuelto cada vez más visibles debido a las transformaciones del suelo y las dinámicas territoriales sobre estas zonas antes consideradas remotas y en las que habitan pueblos primigenios. Frente a este contexto, se ha querido cuantificar los cambios e...

In recent years, studies on poverty and inequality have focused on financial inclusion as a mechanism to improve people's living conditions. This paper studies the impact of financial inclusion on multidimensional poverty in the provinces of Ecuador during the period 2015–2018. A synthetic index of financial inclusion was developed, using the princ...

The effective implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to forests (SDG15) and water resources (SDG6) have significant implications for achieving quality of life for people in urban and rural areas. We carried out a study in the rural parishes of the Metropolitan District of Quito (MDQ), Ecuador. The objective of the study was...

Due to new urbanization patterns, where cities' edges are becoming increasingly difficult to delimit, a better understanding of urban-rural gradients has become a key issue for urban planning. These interstitial territories are characterized for being highly heterogeneous, with hybrid and complex dynamics and-due to their landscape ambiguity and ra...

(1) background: Urban representations of the Amazon are urgently needed in order to better understand the complexity of urban processes in this area of the World. So far, limited work that represents Amazonian urban regions has been carried out. (2) methods: Our study area is the Ecuadorian Amazon. We performed a K-means algorithm using six urban i...

During enforced confinement amid the coronavirus pandemic, the sense of place transcends the apparent bounds of indoor geographies. Despite the emptying of urban infrastructure and the uncertainty regarding its future use, more people have a higher appreciation for public spaces and consider their neighborhood very safe.

La diversidad de la población y los factores sociales y económicos son aspectos que pueden influenciar en la forma de vida urbana. En este trabajo se estudia la asociación de diversidad de la población con estatus socioeconómico, cohesión social y lenguaje indígena. La diversidad de la población se calculó aplicando el índice de entropía de Shannon...

This exploratory study identifies spatial patterns of crimes and their associations with the index of Unsatisfied Basic Needs (UBN), with Communitarian Policy Units (CPU) density, as well as with population density. The case study is the Metropolitan District of Quito. Correlation analyses were applied between number of registers of each type of cr...

This paper identifies spatial patterns of body mass index (BMI) and obesity in the Metropolitan District of Quito, Ecuador, by applying spatial autocorrelation. We identified BMI hotspots in eastern rural parishes, and hotspots of obesity in northern urban parishes. We then explored associations between distances to food outlets, physical activity...

Livability is a popular term for describing the satisfaction of residents with living in a city. The assessment of livability can be of high relevance for urban planning; however, existing assessment methods have various limitations, especially in terms of transferability. In our main research article, we developed a conceptual framework and an ass...

Livability reflects the quality of the person–environment relationship, namely how well the built environment or the available services in a city fulfill the residents’ needs and expectations. We argue that livability assessment can aid the implementation of certain New Urban Agenda (NUA) goals by providing a flexible way to assess urban environmen...

Coordination between multiple centers for decision-making and types of actors, across scales and sectors, is critical to improving the effectiveness of the implementation of Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This challenge is particularly crucial for metropolitan arrangements in developing countries where State capacity is w...

Algunas áreas metropolitanas han sido diseñadas con el fin de permitir la interacción entre los diferentes niveles de gobierno y otros actores no estatales, en aras de abordar los problemas críticos de sus jurisdicciones. Este es el caso del Distrito Metropolitano de Quito (DMQ), en el cual confluyen el nivel nacional de gobierno con el provincial,...

Objective: In Ecuador, the reported maternal death rate was 45.71 per 100,000 live births in 2013. This may be partly due to a lack of maternal knowledge of obstetric warning signs during pregnancy, delivery and the post-partum period. This study sought to evaluate awareness of obstetric warning signs among pregnant women in relation to individual...

Around the globe, Geographic Information Systems (GISs) are well established in the daily workflow of authorities, businesses and non-profit organisations. GIS can effectively handle spatial entities and offer sophisticated analysis and modelling functions to deal with space. Only a small fraction of the literature in Geographic Information Science...

Space and place are key concepts for understanding the functionality of social and environmental interactions. Cities are complex social-ecological systems where space–place interactions can be interpreted by means of quality of life. Firstly, we present several quality-of-life concepts that can be linked to space and place concepts. Secondly, we d...

Indices explaining health phenomena are important tools for identifying and investigating health inequalities and to support policy making. Some of these indices are expressed at area-level, and the investigation of the areal influences of these indices on individual health outcomes have scale and geographical contextual implications that need to b...

The dynamic nature of cities, understood as complex systems with a variety of concurring factors, poses significant challenges to urban analysis for supporting planning processes. This particularly applies to large urban events because their characteristics often contradict daily planning routines. Due to the availability of large amounts of data,...

Deprivation indices are useful measures to study health inequalities. Different techniques are commonly applied to construct deprivation indices, including multi-criteria decision methods such as the analytical hierarchy process (AHP). The multi-criteria deprivation index for the city of Quito is an index in which indicators are weighted by applyin...

Deprivation indices are useful measures to study health inequalities. Different techniques are commonly applied to construct deprivation indices, including multi-criteria decision methods such as the analytical hierarchy process (AHP). The multi-criteria deprivation index for the city of Quito is an index in which indicators are weighted by applyin...

Accessibility and satisfaction related to healthcare services are conceived as multidimensional concepts. These concepts can be studied using objective and subjective measures. In this study, we created two indices: a composite healthcare accessibility index (CHCA) and a composite healthcare satisfaction index (CHCS). To calculate the CHCA index we...

Individual perceptions are essential when evaluating the well-being benefits from urban green spaces. This study predicted the influence of perceived green space characteristics in the city of Szeged, Hungary, on two well-being variables: the green space visitors’ level of satisfaction and the self-reported quality of life. The applied logistic reg...

A challenge in regional inequality is to identify the relative influence of objective neighborhood context on subjective citizens’ attitudes and experiences of place. This paper first presents six groups of hierarchal neighborhoods in optimizing public service inequality (PSI) indicators based on census blocks collected in Quito, Ecuador. Multileve...

Self-reported health is considered a health outcome related to neighborhood characteristics. This study analyzes the influence of urban multi-criteria deprivation and spatial accessibility to healthcare on individual self-reported health from a case study carried out in the city of Quito, Ecuador. A multi-criteria deprivation index and two alternat...

Alternative economic approaches are gaining importance due to the extreme inequalities caused by the laissez-faire perspective of neoliberal economics. These approaches study the economy with a multidisciplinary view, considering paradigms of social inclusion, justice and sustainability. Geographic information science (GIScience) can be defined as...

Urban planners and ecologists have long debated the relationship between the structure of urban landscapes and social activities. There have, however, been very few discussions as to whether any such relationships might depend on the scales of observation. This work applies a hierarchical zoning technique to data from the city of Quito, Ecuador, to...

This study aims to explore the effect of the neighborhood scale when estimating public services inequality based on the aggregation of social, environmental, and health-related indicators. Inequality analyses were carried out at three neighborhood scales: the original census blocks and two aggregated neighborhood units generated by the spatial " k...

Deprivation indices are useful to evaluate deprivation and quality of life. These kinds of indices are traditionally extracted from census information. Despite a variety of works in developing these indices, there is not too much experience in relate them to areas different than census blocks. And the discussion of the implications of this relation...

La Ciencia detrás de los Sistemas de Información Geográfica y las perspectivas para América Latina (Editorial publicado en la Revista MundoGEO, 2014)

Deprivation indices are widely used to identify areas characterized by above average social and/or material disadvantages. Especially spatial approaches have become increasingly popular since they enable decision makers to identify priority areas and to allocate their resources accordingly. An array of methods and spatial reporting units have been...

This study focuses on identifying the ideal route for an oil pipeline by applying Geographic Information Systems to the analyses of hydrocarbons transportation, integrating multidisciplinary experts´ criteria and using Multi- Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA). The study aims to find the ideal route for the connection between the fuel shipping stati...

Deprivation indices are useful measures to analyze health inequalities. There are several methods to construct these indices, however, few studies have used Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Multi-Criteria methods to construct a deprivation index. Therefore, this study applies Multi-Criteria Evaluation to calculate weights for the indicators...

Automated zoning procedures offer efficient, systematic and objective methodologies for identifying the neighborhood effects on socio-economic statistics. However, the automatic spatial aggregation of census data over manually defined geographic units based on landscape heterogeneity characteristics are barely studied. In this study we utilize high...

Comparing different healthcare accessibility measures and relating them to socio-economic information is a useful means for identifying health inequalities. In this study, a socioeconomic deprivation index is initially calculated. Then, three measures of health services accessibility are calculated: distance to the nearest health center, a two-step...

Plant invasive species are one of the most important threats to the ecological stability of the Galapagos Islands and Psidium guajava is one of the most aggressive invasive plants: it currently occupies large areas in the middle and upper zones of some of the islands. This study measures the future spread of Psidium guajava in the south-east area o...

This study produced a Multiple Deprivation Index (MDI) from census information in a rural area, north-west of the Metropolitan District of Quito (MDQ), Ecuador. The index developed uses selected socio-demographic information that represents social deprivation. First, a set of indicators were chosen and then an Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was a...

Ecuador is a Pluri-National country, where more than a dozen of Indigenous Nationalities live, and the Sumak Kawsay (“Welfare of Life” in Kichwa language) philosophy is an ancestral Andean indigenous perspective that define the welfare of indigenous societies in function of their culture, beliefs and perspectives. Nowadays, Indigenous Nationalities...

The objective of this study is to produce the mapping of cultural-heritage typologies in Ecuador, using census data, historical data and statistics analysis. In this project GIS was useful in order to visualize and process large amount of data efficiently: structuration of geographic data bases with cultural heritage variables, classification of th...

A partir del año 2009 empezaron a desarrollarse los Planes de Ordenamiento Territorial (POT) para los diferentes niveles de gobierno en Ecuador. Actualmente, tenemos una variedad de Planes de Ordenamiento Territorial, pero realmente pocos se han sujetado a un proceso metodológico completo, tomando en cuenta no solo procesos participativos y de anál...