Gal?pagos Sustainable energy strategies for Santa Cruz island
- Authors
- Calle, Pedro
- Format
- MasterThesis
- Status
- publishedVersion
- Description
The Galapagos Archipelago is a living lab of evolution and an iconic piece of natural heritage that is in danger. It is also the most preserved archipelago of the world and therefore has to be seen as a global problem and as an opportunity to develop a system that can demonstrate that nature and humans can live in harmony. The unique range of endemic species of flora and fauna that inhabits the islands is being threatened by the unsustainable way of living of local communities. The growing economy based on tourism has generated a lot of migration that carries side problems like expanding urban areas, poor waste management systems, over-fishing, energy shortage and pollution due to fossil fuel consumption. Local government efforts towards sustainability are lacking on consistency. Big projects with low effectiveness from governmental institutions are the core of change. The patriarchal way of execution of this projects intends to give a universal solution for various endemic problems that deserve more specific attention and local participation. This project would try to create local strategies towards an integral energy system that can be taken as the core of the sustainable development of the Islands. Thus an energy potential study base on the community participation and the protected environment has to be done as the starting point to ensure a local and more concrete design. This project wants to add energy to this living lab of evolution as part of the human adaptation for the islands in order to preserve the existing.
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Language
- eng
- Topic
- ARQUITECTURA
ENERG?A SOSTENIBLE
PLANEAMIENTO URBANO
DISE?O SOSTENIBLE
ESTRATEGIAS ENERG?TICAS
BALANCE ENERG?TICO
GAL?PAGOS
ISLA SANTA CRUZ
- Repository
- Repositorio SENESCYT
- Rights
- openAccess
- License