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D.A. Sepulveda Carmona

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From fossil to forest

Recasting Post-Industrial Landscapes Through Wooded Commons

The Earth has entered the Anthropocene—an epoch in which human activities have become the dominant force shaping planetary systems. Anthropogenic actions such as deforestation, overexploitation and rapid urban expansion have significantly accelerated global climate change. The co ...

Transforming (flood)plains

Activating a process of evolutionary resilience in Lake Karla

The agricultural plains of Thessaly in Greece have been historically sensitive to flooding. These floods result in extreme socio-economic, spatial and environmental consequences, whose severity is heavily impacted by human actions manipulating the natural ecosystems of the region ...

Collectricity

Creating a common energy collective through young farmers in South Limburg

With the Green Deal, Europe has the ambition to become the first climate neutral continent in the world in 2050. The current energy system, responsible for 75% of the greenhouse gas emissions, faces challenges including dependency on foreign sources and affordability. Furthermore ...

Re-Storing Power To The People

Creating a Decentralized and Equitable U16 Region through Energy Storage

The energy transition is advancing, and the share of renewable energy is increasing. The intermittent nature of these energy sources is introducing problems with energy security throughout the day and putting extra pressure on an already heavily congested electricity grid. To all ...

Eco flower to power

Opening up Westland into a resilient energy landscape by transforming Westland’s flower industry, using the energy transition as a catalyst

To meet the United Nations’ target of global energy neutrality by 2050, a fundamental shift is needed in how we produce and consume energy. Though governments currently focus mainly on adapting, while mostly maintaining systems as they currently are, it becomes increasingly more ...

Performative Landscape

A New Paradigm for Energy Transition Through Farmers‘ Community Engagement and the Transformation of the Zeeland Delta Landscape

Zeeland is a land of production of food, energy and resources. Its very nature is deeply rooted in the Dutch people‘s historical ability to reshape the landscape and harness its potential for economic benefit. Today, it faces slow demographic decline, is largely covered by agricu ...

Bogotá, Cohesion by Polymorphism

The reinvention of the city's landscape within the Colombian Identity

The current condition of urban fragmentation in Bogotá
is the result of a long and complex historical process that (due to both external pressures related to the urban planning paradigms of modernity, as well as internal pressures from the Colombian armed conflict) has ended ...

Dancing with El Niño

Finding the learning space to build Piura’s evolutionary resilience towards floods and droughts

Piura is a land of drastic, and even deadly, contrasts. It’s inherent desertic conditions makes water a scares resource; on the contrary, during El Niño phenomenon, heavy rainfalls are 60 times it’s average annual precipitation, resulting in oscillations between floods and drough ...

Counteracting desertification and abandonment in the rural Spanish landscape

Revealing potentialities of regeneration through a local sensitive adaptive strategy

Desertification and depopulation are mutually reinforcing processes that cause global socio-ecological ecosystem vulnerability through land degradation. The dehesa landscape in Spain is especially vulnerable, facing severe threats from these combined pressures and urgently needin ...

A Littoral Dissonance

Alteration of the Croatian Adriatic as a Consequence of Tourism Practices

This thesis interrogates the transformation of the Croatian coast, focusing on its identity beyond a touristic destination and examining the social and ecological impacts of tourism. The research poses crucial questions about the true character of the Croatian coast, the spatial ...

Water resilient mosaic

Envisioning a co-evolutionary transformation of territories-in-between in the BTH metropolitan region

The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) Metropolitan Region faces significant challenges, including drought, severe precipitation, floods, subsidence, societal disparities, air pollution, and an aging population. Fragmented spatial and institutional frameworks hinder effective responses, ...

Megaproject to Megaprocess

A dynamic vision and strategy for the Pearl River Delta

This report presents our proposal for “Globalisation Free Choice,” an elective course for master’s students in the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at TU Delft, in collaboration with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). The course aims to explore sustain ...

ArborMetropolis

Regional afforestation as a backbone for ecosystem-based adaptation in the metropolitan area of Monterrey, Mexico

In response to the need for robust and extensive green infrastructure in Monterrey, Mexico, this thesis will explore the potentialities of upscaling urban forestry and regional afforestation as a solution. The metropolitan area of Monterrey, and it’s urban landscape morphology, ...

SowGrowConnect

Circular Delta 2050: Sowing the seeds for a zero-emission society through a locally-oriented, knowledge-based greenhouse horticulture

The Dutch greenhouse industry contributing 19% of the national carbon emissions, highlights its significant role in the ever-increasing environmental, social, and political challenges developing from climate change. Geopolitical tensions including the war in Ukraine and the Covid ...

AgriNature

Transitioning Agricultural Practices to Integrate Nature

The Netherlands holds the title of the world’s second-largest exporter of agricultural goods, primarily due to Wageningen University’s pioneering research and innovation. However, this success has led to significant challenges. Intensive farming practices have strained resources ...

Towards a healthy Delta

An exploration of community empowerment as a means to support the Delta’s ability to produce ecosystem

Currently, the Southwestern Delta is ill. The inability to produce its essential ecosystem services hinders the Delta from being healthy. Systems that make the Delta economy prosper are the main reasons for this obstruction. If current hazards like salinisation, soil depletion, a ...

Daily Mobility in Metropolitan Areas

The case of higher education students and urban spatial development in the Valparaiso Metropolitan Area

This study seeks to understand the interrelationship between daily mobility and the spatial structure of an emerging metropolitan urban system. It is concerned with the daily mobility of a specific group of inhabitants, higher education students, living in a contemporary metropol ...

Paraná Delta

New scenarios to link delta dynamics with a sustainable development of the Lower Paraná Delta

The Paraná Delta, a vital component of the La Plata river basin, is facing severe environmental degradation due to human activities and external pressures. This thesis explores the adaptive capacity of the deltaic system and stakeholders in the ‘Los Pájaros y sus Pueblos Libres’ ...

Re-Peating Nature

Ruralities in Transition

The Wadden Sea Region spans the Dutch, German, and Denmark coasts, creating one of the most culturally and environmentally rich areas, recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage in 2009 (Centre, U. W. H, 2009). The natural and cultural value of the heritage site possesses unique featu ...

Water & Culture, Adaptation & Integration

An integrated urban transformation for river flood resilience and sustainable leisure industry in the city of Maastricht.

The survival and development of the city of Maastricht are facing enormous threats from the increasingly frequent and severe fluvial floods, while the leisure industry is the most vulnerable to flood damage as a crucial segment of the economy, accounting for about 50% of the tota ...