Abstract

RODRIGUEZ LAREDO, Daisy Mirtha. MANAGEMENT OF URBAN GREEN SPACES AS A CRITERION FOR MITIGATION AND ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE. Investig@ UMSA [online]. 2011, vol.2, n.2, pp. 54-70. ISSN 2220-7139.

The climate change is an atmospheric global phenomenon that originates environmental imbalances with very serious manifestations in the cities and evidently it makes them more vulnerable. The Meteorological World Organization affirms that the lack of green spaces for the urban growth is the reason of the increase of 1^o to 4° C of temperature in some cities of Latin America, provokes a decline of the relative dampness and the presence ofheat islands in the cities. The methodology consisted of identifying the existing types of green coverage, the degree of connectivity and fragmentation in the city of La Paz, Bolivia in satellite images of the Google Earth. By means of the analysis of the geomorphology and the urban plot complemented with investigations realized on remnants natives and native vegetation, it was possible to raise a green urban connected, fundamental structure in the Management of the green urban one, consideration: the urban forestry emphatically; the green corridors; the valuation of natural remnants; the protection striping emphatically in the reinstatement of the native coverage; the urban gardens and the urban farm. Establishing hereby a network oforganic urban sustainable and connected spaces, where the trees are the protagonists, for improving the environmental quality and attenuating the effects of the climate change in the cities.

Keywords : Climate change adaptation; green corridors; urban forestry; green urban.