Virginia Carter Gamberini

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Assistant Professor at Universidad Mayor

Biophilic urbanism seeks to integrate nature into the planning and design of urban spaces to pursue two main goals: making cities greener and improving the health and well-being of its inhabitants. Based on ordinal data gathered through a national survey, this paper analyses the perceptions of local governments on the potential implementation of th...

The COVID-19 crisis has again highlighted our need to be in close contact with nature. Approaches such as biophilic urbanism, which seek to re-naturalize cities through its inclusion in planning and design, have thus gained relevance. The biophilic urbanism approach is materialized through the Biophilic Cities Network (BCN) and uses indicators to m...

Water scarcity is a rising issue in fast-growing cities in arid lands, where demand outpaces supply. This leads to non-renewable water systems and exacerbates social inequalities. This is the case for Alto Hospicio (AH), located in the northern Chilean Atacama Desert. Regarding its water availability, the main source of drinking water comes from un...

Citation: Albornoz, F.; Vilches, I.; del Río, C.; Carter, V. Soilless Production of Lettuce (Lactuca sativa) in the Atacama Desert Using Fog Water: Water Quality and Produce Mineral Composition. Horticulturae 2024, 10, 957. https://doi. Abstract: Soilless vegetable production in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile is spreading since it is perceive...

Agricultural production in the Atacama Desert is restricted by extreme aridity and poor soil quality. Between 18°S and 30°S, low stratocumulus clouds regularly cover the southeastern Pacific Ocean reaching the Coastal Cordillera. Thus, marine fog is constantly present in the coastal areas of the desert. Fog can be harvested using fog collectors. Ho...

Environmental impact assessment systems are preventive management instruments whose main objective is to include environmental considerations in the processes and activities accompanying economic growth in a nation. The influence of these systems in the conservation of biodiversity is fundamental, since within the evaluation process, they enable id...

This review analyzes literature regarding urban heating and urban heat islands (UHIs) in dryland cities. This topic is of widespread importance in the era of climate change since many global cities are in arid, semiarid, or Mediterranean regions. We first analyze the literature on dryland UHIs, finding major differences with those for temperate cit...

There are numerous development projects around the world that seek to provide technological solutions, however these technologies do not prosper because technology transfer, and especially co-creation, is often neglected. The NGO FogQuest has tried to center these themes into fog collection initiatives which are both technological and social endeav...