Paul von Lindert, Otto Verkoren, Utrecht

Geographies of Inequality in Latin America
University of Kiel, 29 April – 1 May 2011
Programme
Friday, 29/4
13:00
Inscription
13:30 – 15:00
Introduction
Verena Sandner Le Gall, Rainer Wehrhahn (Kiel)
Welcome and Introduction
Paul van Lindert, Otto Verkoren (Utrecht)
On decentralisation, local governance and local development (planning) in Latin
America
Ximena Galleguillos (Duisburg, Kiel)
¿Es posible planificar heterogeneidad socioespacial? Exclusión versus inclusión y
estilos de vida urbana en el caso de Santiago de Chile
15:00 – 15:30
Coffee break
15:30 – 17:00
Political ecology: Resource access, conflicts and governance (I)
Martin Becher, Ana Murgida, Nicole Paganini (Tübingen, Buenos Aires)
Privatization of (state-owned) forests from a political ecology perspective – case
studies in the Peruvian Amazonia and the Northwest-Argentinian Chaco
Marcela López (Berlin)
Water distribution as an indicator of social inequality: The case of Medellín, Colombia
Michael Eichholz (Bonn)
Alternative water governance in peri-urban Bolivian quarters – Post-modern and postcolonial?
17:00 – 17:30
Break
17:30 – 18:30
Political ecology: Resource access, conflicts and governance (II)
Andrew Boni Noguez, Claudio Garibay (Mexico City)
Gold mining and peasant disposession. Goldcorp’s Peñasquito mine in the Mexican
semidesert
Alice Nataraja Garcia Santos (Berlin)
Energia eólica no Ceará, Brasil: Uma interpretação dos conflitos ecológicos entre
empresas eólicas e organizações sócio-ambientais através do uso conceito de
„escala“
19:30 Dinner at „Seeburg“
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Saturday, 30/4
9:00 – 10:30 Session A – I : Natural resources and land use change
Edgardo I. Garrido-Pérez (Göttingen)
Neotropical biogeography and the evolution of lianas
Michelle Farfán, Jean-François Mas (Utrecht, Mexico City)
Modeling spatially explicit scenarios of land use /cover change in the biosphere
reserve of Sierra Manantlán, Jalisco, Mexico
Martina Neuburger und David Bregulla (Innsbruck)
Socio-economic impact of climate change and glaciermass decline: Case study
concerning the effects of changing run-off regimes in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee break
9:00 – 10:30 Session B – I : Inequalities in urban contexts: Housing and segregation
Jan Dohnke, Dirk Heinrichs, Kerstin Krellenberg (Berlin, Leipzig)
Achieving a socio-spatial mix in a free market city: Prospects and limitations of social
housing policy in Santiago de Chile
Gonzalo Oroz (Weimar)
Cortados por la autopista: Cambio en los patrones de segregación socio-espacial a
través de inversiones de infraestrucutra vial. El caso de Santiago de Chile
Marina Montelongo (Cologne)
The role of social capital for sustainability in collective housing. Case study
„Vecindades“ in Mexico City
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee break
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11:00 – 12:30 Session A – II : Natural resources and land use change
Udo Nehren, Friederike Naegeli, Sandra Alfonso, Toa Loaiza Lange (Cologne, Leipzig,
Innsbruck)
The CDM and REDD+ mechanisms as elements of a multi-level ecosystem
management? – A case study in the Atlantic Forest of Rio de Janeiro
Richard Hastik, Clemens Geitner, Martina Neuburger (Innsbruck)
The soils of the Llanos de Moxos (Bolivia): Local knowledge, current land use and
possibilities for sustainable management
Robert Mueller (Göttingen)
The question of equity in the discussion on deforestation reduction in the Amazon
11:00 – 12:30 Session B – II : Inequalities in urban contexts: Housing and segregation
Dominik Haubrich (Kiel)
La habituación de prácticas de seguridad en el espacio privado. El caso de São Paulo
Katharina Schmidt (Innsbruck, Hamburg)
„A rua é nossa… é de todos nós“? Apropriação de espaços públicos no Rio de
Janeiro
Michael Handke (Heidelberg)
Hypercompetition in the tourism sector in Cartagena de Indias/Colombia? Market
failure and organized (spatial) exclusion of the poor
12:30 – 16:00
Lunch break and boat trip
16:00 – 17:30
Socio-economic change and inequalities (I)
Pablo Paolasso, Julieta Krapovickas, Fernando Longhi (San Miguel de Tucumán)
Avance de la frontera agropecuaria y variación de la pobreza en el Norte del Gran
Chaco Argentino durante los noventa
Gerhard Rainer (Innsbruck)
A case study on the effects of tourism development in north-western Argentina
Gery Nijenhuis, Annelien Meerts (Utrecht)
Linking migration to development: transnational activities of Surinamese migrant
organizations
17:30 – 17:45 Break
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17:45 – 19:15 Socio-economic change and inequalities (II)
Carla Marchant Santiago, Rafael Sánchez Acuña (Innsbruck, Santiago de Chile)
Aislamiento, pobreza, desigualdad y emigración: Factores de insustentabilidad del
desarrollo en comunas de montaña. El caso de la comuna de Lonquimay, Región de la
Araucanía, Chile
Andrés Gerique and María Fernanda López (Erlangen, Quito)
The driving forces of socio-economic change and of deforestation in Shuar
communities of the Upper Nangaritza, Southern Ecuador
Martina Park (Erlangen)
„Todos somos iguales“ – Individuating vs. ethnicising processes among indigenous
and non-indigenous groups. A case study from Southern Ecuador
20:30 Dinner at “Forstbaumschule”
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Sunday, 1/5
9:00 – 10:30 Dealing with Inequalities (I)
Götz Kaufmann (Berlin)
Environmental justice and sustainable development in Brazil's Amazon. A case study
about the APA Algodoal-Maiandeua using Q methodology
Claudia König (Berlin, Belém)
Forest as service providers: Discourses on Ecosystem Services in the Brazilian
Amazon
Fernanda Mello Sant’ Anna (São Paulo, Utrecht)
Inequality and water in the Amazon basin: the difficulties of cooperation and
sustainable alternatives
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Dealing with Inequalities (II)
Hanneke van der Heijden (Amsterdam)
Natural gas and regionalism in Bolivia: froma call for departmental autonomy to a
plural-nationalist form of decentralization
Pablo Paolasso, Martin Coy, Fernando Ruiz Peyré, Gerhard Rainer (Innsbruck)
Riesgos y oportunidades del Cambio Global en el Noroeste Argentino. Dinámicas
socio-territoriales, estrategias de adaptación y sustentabilidad regional
Final discussion and agenda setting
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