Sonia Reyes-PaeckePontificia Universidad Católica de Chile | UC · Faculty of Agronomy and Forestry Engineering
Sonia Reyes-Paecke
Biol., MA., PhD.
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Introduction
I am interested on the interactions between ecological and social systems in human-dominated environments, also in landscape ecology, spatial planning and biodiversity conservation. My research has focused on urban environments, but I am also interested in rural communities. I prefer transdisciplinary research and integrative approaches that incorporate quantitative and qualitative research methods
Additional affiliations
August 2013 - present
Position
- Professor (Assistant)
Description
- El Departamento de Ecosistemas y Medioambiente imparte docencia en la carrera de Ingeniería Forestal y en la carrera de Agronomía
March 2013 - March 2020
January 2013 - present
Centre for Sustainable Urban Development
Position
- Research Associate
Description
- CEDEUS (Centro para el Desarrollo Urbano Sustentable) is an initiative that seeks to bring together leading researchers in Chile in the field of sustainable urban development in order to work on interdisciplinary research challenges.
Education
August 2010 - December 2014
August 1992 - August 1994
March 1984 - December 1990
Publications
Publications (60)
Green spaces are considered as indicators of both quality of life and urban sustainability. In Latin America, some analyses have been made regarding the provision and use of urban green spaces, but there are few studies that analyze how peoples' perceptions influence the use of these areas. The article analyses factors such as preferences for green...
Green infrastructure (GI) contributes to environmental quality and human well-being in urban environments by providing a number of ecosystem services. There is evidence that urban expansion negatively impacts on GI, but most studies have focused on large cities at the expense of an understanding of these processes in smaller cities. Here we assess...
Many cities are facing water shortages because of climate change. Climate adaptation plans have prioritized water saving to prevent the devastating consequences of drought. To develop such adaptation plans, it is critical to understand the water-use patterns of cities. The present research determines the water consumption for irrigation of green sp...
El siguiente artículo forma parte de una investigación 1 en curso que busca comprender la gobernanza en temas de espacio público y áreas verdes para las ciudades chilenas, utilizando como casos de estudio las ciudades de Temuco, Padre Las Casas, La Serena y Coquimbo. En publicaciones preliminares sobre este estudio 2 , se ha presentado un modelo de...
Se evaluaron 94 espacios verdes urbanos (EVU) (residenciales y parques locales) en 3 áreas metropolitanas de Chile (Gran La Serena, Gran Santiago, Gran Concepción), con el objetivo de reconocer cuál es su valoración social. Se aplicaron 750 cuestionarios para identificar qué utilidad cumple el EVU según su tipo y se realizaron consultas en movimien...
In this study, we evaluated alternative methods for comparing the provision of ecosystem services among urban areas, stressing how the choice of comparison method affects the ability to compare the ecosystem service outcomes, in order to improve the management actions in urban green areas, reduce environmental inequality, and ensure satisfactory le...
This chapter presents Parque 18 de Septiembre (La Serena, Chile) as a successful example of a community-based initiative. This park lies in a peri-urban residential area, made up of social housing complexes, with around 20,000 inhabitants. In 2000, several community organizations were grouped in the La Antena Territorial Network to join forces to c...
Monitoring urban green space (UGS) indicators is key to assessing progress against the UNs sustainable development goals (SDGs). Within these indicators, measuring the provision of UGS as well as its accessibility is considered a major objective. However, neither the relationship between the two indicators, nor differences related to different type...
Entre las problemáticas ambientales que afectan a las ciudades mineras, una de las más graves es la exposición crónica de la población a metales a través del aire, del suelo o aguas. En 2016, el Ministerio del Medio Ambiente (MMA) evaluó numerosos sitios con potencial presencia de contaminantes (CENMA, 2016), entre ellos los “relaves urbanos”, e id...
The usual approaches to describing and understanding ecological processes in a landscape use patch-mosaic models based on traditional landscape metrics. However, they do not consider that many of these processes cannot be observed without considering the multiple interactions between different land-use patches in the landscape. The objective of thi...
Toxic metal enrichment in urban soils from natural and anthropogenic sources is a public health concern that challenges sustainable urban development. Active and legacy mining is likely a major contributor of localized metal pollution in resource-based economies, although other sources associated with industrial and transportation activities may al...
Biodiversity-sensitive cities can contribute to reconnect humans with nature and halt global biodiversity loss. Achieving biodiversity-sensitive cities is challenging, especially in regions threatened by growing urbanization. To inform urban management and planning in a global biodiversity hotspot, we conducted a multi-scale assessment of drivers o...
Extreme temperatures mirror global climate patterns. The physical characteristics of the landscapes of cities and the activities of their citizens have decisive consequences on urban climates. Both are indeed manageable through urban planning, and especially with the potential of greening urban landscapes. This chapter analyses the capacity of urba...
Urban vegetation is generally exposed to adverse environmental conditions, such as high temperatures, compacted soils, low fertility, and a high pollutant concentration. The influence of biophysical and social factors on the survival and condition of trees and nontrees was analyzed using a census of plants in 37 green spaces of the Metropolitan Reg...
Los avances en metas de desarrollo urbano pueden medir-se a través de sistemas de indicadores. En Chile, el Consejo Nacional de Desarrollo Urbano (CNDU) ha propuesto un set de indicadores para monitorear los avances en las metas propuestas por la Política Nacional de Desarrollo Urbano e incorpora aspectos asociados a áreas verdes urbanas (AVU), los...
PROYECTO Nº 1161709. CONTRIBUCIÓN DEL ENFOQUE DE SERVICIOS ECOSISTÉMICOS A LA PLANIFICACIÓN URBANA: OPERACIONALIZACIÓN DEL CONCEPTO PARA SU INCORPORACIÓN EN PLANES Y POLÍTICAS. RESUMEN: El objetivo central de este proyecto fue traducir el concepto de servicios ecosistémicos desde una definición teórica a una definición práctica, aplicable en la pla...
Urban wildlife refers to all native animals seeking food and shelter in urban and suburban areas, including birds, mammals, reptiles, arthropods, amphibians, fish, and aquatic invertebrates, but excluding domestic and exotic animals. Urban wildlife presents behavioral changes in feeding, nesting, and shelter with respect to wild populations, and it...
The impact of urbanization on groundwater is not simple to understand, as it depends on a variety of factors such as climate, hydrogeology, water management practices, and infrastructure. In semiarid landscapes, the urbanization processes can involve high water consumptions and irrigation increases, which in turn may contribute to groundwater recha...
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is one of the most urbanized and biologically diverse regions in the world but is often characterized by weak environmental governance and socioeconomic inequalities. Given large expanses of intact biomes, a long history of pre-Colombian civilizations, and recent urbanization trends, the urban ecosystem service...
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Which ecosystem services are addressed? Urban ecosystem services: cooling effects of shading plants, climate mitigation, regulating run-off, improving air quality, carbon sequestration, and various cultural services such as recreation and sense of place, aesthetics. What is the research question addressed? How does the socio-spatial differ...
Los parques urbanos son un componente fundamental de las ciudades contemporáneas. En el siglo XIX producto de los cambios generados por la Revolución Industrial, las ciudades europeas iniciaron la construcción de parques públicos con el fin de disminuir los impactos de la contaminación industrial, aliviar el hacinamiento de la población y generar e...
This work focus on the configuration of urban green infrastructure - and thus residential access to those ecosystem services that green infrastructure can provide. Their area of research is the growing Latin American urban metropolitan area of Santiago de Chile. Here, they consider targeted spatial analysis on multiple scales. By identifying large...
Latin America is one of the most urbanized region in the world, where patterns of urbanization are disorganized and disjoint from urban planning, with unknown effects for ecosystem services (ES). We evaluated the ES in Bogota and Santiago for a 30-year period. Using remote sensing data, models and census data we quantified carbon regulation, climat...
By the mid-twenty-first century, it is expected that over 65% of the world’s population will live in urban areas. The shift will entail the conversion of natural areas into cities. The inclusion of these natural areas poses new challenges
for spatial planning that can be addressed in a new approach to spatial planning that incorporates features of...
El 15 de enero de 2016 un conjunto de estudiantes, profesionales y académicos fundaron la Asociación Chilena de Ecología de Paisaje la cual representa el capítulo chileno de la International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE Chile), sociedad de alcance mundial con más de dos mil científicos. La ecología del paisaje es concebida como una cienc...
El principal objetivo de esta investigación es proponer una nueva aproximación para la planificación urbana de Santiago basada en el concepto de planificación ecológica. Esta aproximación contribuye a la planificación territorial mediante el diagnóstico y reconocimiento explícito del rol fundamental que los elementos ecológicos juegan en las dinámi...
Abstract: By the mid-twenty first century, it is expected that over 65% of the world’s population will live in urban areas. The process of this shift will entail the integration of natural areas into cities. This incorporation poses new challenges for land planning such as: how to include ecosystem services, how to fold nature back into artificial...
La historia de la planificación urbana se escribe mediante el registro de diversas iniciativas realizadas a lo largo de la historia de una ciudad. Estas iniciativas incluyen planes de uso del suelo, planes de renovación urbana, proyectos de infraestructura y diversas acciones del Estado, con mayor o menor participación de la sociedad civil según el...
Los últimos incendios ocurridos en Valparaíso (2 de enero) y en Viña del Mar (12 de marzo) nos recuerdan lo que falta para conseguir mitigar el riesgo a esta clase de desastres. Desentrañar las causas de estos eventos, identificando los factores que contribuyen a la generación y dispersión del fuego, es un imperativo urgente. Pero es igualmente urg...
El Área Metropolitana de Santiago ha crecido hasta ser una megaciudad compleja. En ella convergen distintas administraciones municipales, provinciales, regional y nacional, además de la initiativa de miles de actores privados y de la sociedad civil. Todos ellos están tomando decisiones que afectarán a millones de personas. Por ello, el futuro debe...
El presente libro tiene como primer objetivo lograr que el lector amplíe su visión del territorio y la necesidad de su ordenamiento más allá del ámbito urbano, y de este modo poder pensar en un sistema que respete sus distintas vocaciones.
En el libro se desarrollan los principales instrumentos de ordenamiento territorial existentes en nuestro paí...
La Infraestructura Verde (IV) se refiere a todas las formas de vegetación urbana, que en conjunto constituyen un sistema que entrega valiosos servicios ecosistémicos tanto a nivel global como a nivel local
El Ministerio de Vivienda y Urbanismo (MINVU) ha encomendado a la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile el estudio “Estimación de los costos de mantención de áreas verdes urbanas”. Éste fue liderado por la académica de la Facultad de Agronomía e Ingeniería Forestal, Dra. Sonia Reyes Paecke.
La investigación es coordinada por la Comisión de Estu...
Environmental quality has a strong influence on the quality of life for human beings. There are direct linkages between primary elements of the environment, such as air, water, and land surface and the quality of life. However, in order to gain an understanding of how elements interact, a wide range of data is required. Although, the integration of...
Green spaces play a key role in the social activities of those who carry the potential for spatial interaction. In the Metropolitan Area of Santiago de Chile, the increase in housing construction for higher socio-economic strata in low-status neighbourhoods has led in part to a new socio-spatial mix. Whether this trend of socially more diverse neig...
This study aims to give a differentiated picture of urban and suburban development regarding demographic and land-use change as major drivers for urban growth. A set of indicators has been selected to analyze and evaluate the dynamics of these drivers and their implications for environmental conditions and the quality of life. The study is exemplif...
This chapter focuses on flood risk analysis and risk prevention in Santiago de Chile. It presents a conceptual framework for flood risk analysis in urban areas and demonstrates the utility of a mixed set of methods, including remote sensing and GIS techniques, to improve the methodological basis for flood risk assessment and risk prevention. Popula...
Residential gardens provide important vegetation cover in urban environments but there is little research in Latin America. This is the first study on the subject in Santiago de Chile. In Santiago 26 % of the urban area is covered by residential gardens. Even though there is a wide range of residential garden size, most of them measure between 7426...
Residential gardens provide important vegetation cover in urban environments but there is little research in Latin America. This is the first study on the subject in Santiago de Chile. In Santiago 26 % of the urban area is covered by residential gardens. Even though there is a wide range of residential garden size, most of them measure between 74-2...
RESUMEN Tras la erupción del volcán Chaitén (Chile) y la destrucción de la ciudad homónima, tres localidades resultaron ser alternativas oficiales para la relocalización de la ciudad. Fandango, Santa Bárbara y Bahía Pumalín fueron evaluadas en un corto plazo a partir de diversos criterios, siendo uno de ellos el potencial impacto de la nueva urbani...
Tras la erupción del volcán Chaitén (Chile) y la destrucción de la ciudad homónima, tres localidades resultaron ser alternativas oficiales para la relocalización de la ciudad. Fandango, Santa Bárbara y Bahía Pumalín fueron evaluadas en un corto plazo a partir de diversos criterios, siendo uno de ellos el potencial impacto de la nueva urbanización s...
Las áreas verdes urbanas (AVU) proveen servicios sociales y ecológicos, en función de su distribución, superficie y accesibilidad. Se evalúan dichos atributos para las AVU de Santiago mediante métricas de paisaje. Se muestra que el 91% de las AVU tiene tamaño menor a 5.000 m 2 . Las comunas de bajos ingresos y mayor población presentan un mayor núm...
Las áreas verdes urbanas (AVU) proveen servicios ecosistémicos, en función de su distribución, superficie y accesibilidad. Se evalúan dichos atributos para las AVU de Santiago mediante métricas de paisaje. Se muestra que el 91% de las AVU tiene tamaño menor a 5.000 m2. Las comunas de bajos ingresos y mayor población presentan un mayor número de áre...
Santiago de Chile es conocido por su contaminación atmosférica, reflejada en la cotidiana bruma gris que se extiende sobre la ciudad durante los meses de invierno. Sin embargo, este no es el único problema ambiental, ya que sufre también una grave contaminación de los cursos de agua, dis-minución de cobertura vegetacional silvestre, consumo de suel...
