Anais Burgos

  Hello class, today I'll talk about my favorite subject this semester is local climatology, the class is very dynamic and the subject relates how the anthropic action of human beings has caused forced changes in the climate in different magnitudes, but in this subject is studied at a local scale as in a region or city. The contents we have seen are: Solar radiation, urban climate, climate change, climate perception, pollution, among others. I like this subject because we can study the effects of climate change in the different cities of our country and the future risks that the inhabitants will have to face, as extreme heat waves, extreme cold waves, frontal systems, etc. Consequently, the state must take new measures to combat these climatic phenomena because it is a risk for all city dwellers, ecosystems must also be protected to balance the effects of climate change, an example are the wetlands that help regulate the temperature, currently many of them are in danger. Anot...

  Hello everyone, the person I admire is the geographer David Harvey, recognized for his academic contributions related to social phenomena in the territory as an effect of the capitalist economic model. Harvey was born on 1935 in the United Kingdom, studied at Cambridge University and has been a professor at Johns Hopkins, Oxford, New York, and the London School of Economics. His work is related to the branch of radical geography, where he presents the relationship between urbanism and social inequality. Some of his most famous publications are: "Spaces of Hope" (2003), "The New Imperialism" (2004), "A Brief History of Neoliberalism" (2007), From the Right of the City to the Urban Revolution" (2013), among others. I really like the topics developed by this author; he is a contemporary geographer whose studies on social inequality produced by the capitalist system help us to understand all the current social problems. In his book "The Right...