[Music]
Y
[Music]
how
and let’s analyze the lyrics of the famous
song here there’s no group beach
refreshments of 1989 here refers to
madrid the capital of spain there is no beach
the song was composed by a vigués
migrated to our city in the middle of the hour
of heat that summer of ’89 in the
temperatures reached as high
the average 37 degrees Celsius
go go there is no beach clearly the day
that made it was much hotter
because they were not killed with the letter
something that we can deduce from the analysis of
this letter is that in Madrid clearly
there is no beach but today we can also
affirm that many of the beaches that
they existed that summer of 1989 today they have
disappeared or are false we keep them
artificially especially in the
urbanized environments as they have been
echoed the media what
alarming of these news is not that
with the storms our beaches
disappear what is really alarming is
that we continue to blame the waves and the sea
of being carried away from the sand or damaging
chiringuitos the promenades the
houses are businesses that years ago
we build near the sea because it is not
nothing exceptional coastal erosion is
a natural phenomenon is responsible for
reducing beaches and
regression of the coasts and cliffs
it is a dynamic and continuous phenomenon that
by the action of the waves and the wind will
shaping the coasts because the
coasts are not indestructible but their
destruction will not come from the hand of
the storms their destruction is going to
arrive because human beings have
designed and we continue to mis-design their
environment this is so since it does
hundreds of years we started to occupy
build and manipulate the coasts of everything
the world to take advantage of its resources in
the year 2005 as it passes through the city of
new orleans the hurricane katrina left
behind himself a balance absolutely
desolate the days right after the
catastrophe everyone cried
scared that a hurricane had not
could bend the most powerful country in the
world we are used to this
type of natural catastrophes occur in
poor countries or even in the process of
development but not in rich countries
and with enough technology only about
days later the company looked
recognize that the fault had not been
entirely from katrina that there had been
a fault in the pipeline system
of the Mississippi river water and is that the
US body of engineers does not
they gave importance to the fact that the
city of new orleans is located in
the mouth of a huge basin of
Drain a basin that collects water
that is deposited in the territory of
approximately the surface of 41%
of the continental territory of the
united states and part of canada
a basin in which for centuries he
I andrew before Mississippi River had
shown his sovereignty facing the sea
carrying sediments and generating land
that formed alveoli thus forming the
delta that bears his name but makes
three hundred years began to channel
the river Mississippi the river was unable to
drag sediment and little by little
began a process of regression of
delta in such a way that if we do not do
nothing in the future the new city
Orleans will disappear forever between
the waters
in fact the Mississippi delta loses
every hour the surface equivalent to a
american football field that surface
they are coastal wetlands that are a
natural barrier against hurricanes its
vegetation absorbs the energy of
waves so when I get katrina what
had happened is that the delta of
Mississippi was no longer a delta and new
Orléans was closer than ever to the
sea years of water extraction from
subsoil of the city had gone
compressing causing a phenomenon of
subsidence and new real was gone
gradually plunging further the
city could not evacuate all the water from
rain of katrina and the dams
built hundreds of years ago
they began to experience some thrusts
from inside to outside that made it
were breaking in a chain and so new
orleans closer than ever to the sea and
sunk literally
this extreme example is worth to us to put
reveal the consequences of a
bad design fortunately in our
country we do not have hurricanes but neither
we need you already you have seen that
ordinary temporary generate each year
enormous damage to our coastline and this
it’s like that because planning and
coastal design has been based and
is still based on two assumptions
false the first one is that that
what we call nature is something external
to us and it’s not like that nature does not
it’s something that we consume nature is
something that we build we are part of
the plot of life we inhabit in
social systems that are
indissolubly linked to
ecological systems in which
insert we inhabit in partner systems
ecological that are adaptive and that are
complexes we have seen it can not be
isolate what happens along the river
mississippi of what happens
costs the second assumption is that
we can predict the future and we can not
psychological systems behave
as complex adaptive systems that
it means that they change they transform
to adapt to the context and in addition
can live in multiple states of
balance suffer what are called
as regenerative cycles of adaptation
we have also seen it in the case of
Mississippi we have seen as a text that
can not grow that can not beat the
sea is transformed into another type of coast
more like a sedimentary plain
that is much more vulnerable to action
the sea so if we want to design
and in socio-ecological systems what
The only thing we can do is design your
resilience
resilience is the ability to
adaptation that partner systems have
ecological for
take on the disturbances and
transform without modifying
substantially its structure and its
function for example if we go back to
example of Mississippi would be the ability
that we have to manipulate the delta and that
this one continues to function like a delta
said the German sociologist Ulrich Beck
which are the moments when the
risk feels like something global
moments when we feel the risk
as own the moments capable of
illuminate new orders well
katrina opened the eyes of society
American and has begun a
incessant process to try
recover the functioning of the river
for this they are creating
artificially meanders that get
bring sediment to the mouth of the delta and
once there he will try again
reproduce those coastal wetlands that
they protected us from storms
all that is being done through
measures based on the nature of
devices like this that you see here that
they simply serve well to channel
to transform the course of the river and
rebuild those sediments or
just to then take those
sediments and conform these islands
already internalize them even in this effort
titanic against erosion is
thinking about generating a sandy barrier
with a device like this that although
it’s called a sand engine, it ‘s nothing more
that a massive storage of
sediments in an area of the coast to
that nature works for us
so that the nature the currents and
the waves are feeding the rest of
the coast in this case this is a
prototype that he did in the part of
the coast near the beech in the year
2011
but not only is working on the
Mississippi territory is
working also within the city
of new orleans to try
return the dynamic relationship that
had in the past for this they are
reproducing spaces again
lamination ie spaces where
can contain the rainwater that
besides now they are a huge
Green infrastructure provides
parks and leisure spaces for
citizens as you see there is a whole
set of measures based on the
nature this is the design challenge
current coastal areas be able to
to induce what nature takes you
hundreds of years develop everything for
relocate coastal areas
our coastline in a state of
balance that allows us to continue
taking advantage of us to enjoy their
ecosystem benefits of the beaches
of the coastal wetlands of the lands
for agriculture
what you see here
simply a summary of this set
of measurements and are drawn as
synthetic landscape pills because
what matters is not its design what
matter are the effects that catalyze
when we set them in motion the truth
is that it is the result of my thesis
doctoral are the tools with the
I work in the office and with my
students in an effort to return
costs his lost vitality then what
we are doing because while
all these years of evil passed
design has also produced something with
what we did not sing a warm up
global that affects the masses above all
of water on the planet and that is the cause
among other phenomena of the rise
gradual sea level or
intensity of storms and hurricanes
it’s not about whether or not there’s a beach
that’s just the tip of the iceberg of
a much bigger problem
that is called to have proportions
catastrophic if we do not change our
way to design today half of
the population lives in coastal environments
and it is expected that by the year 2080 they will be
more than 100 million people
affected only by the rise in the level
of the sea so if we do not design with more
intelligence the ecosystems in which
we live if we do not seek their resilience
we run the risk of them disappearing and
if the landscapes disappear if we are not
able to find that relationship
harmonic with a dynamic living planet and
with adaptability we will be
condemned to suffer forever their
changes thanks
[Applause]
[Music]
Y
[Music]
how
and let’s analyze the lyrics of the famous
song here there’s no group beach
refreshments of 1989 here refers to
madrid the capital of spain there is no beach
the song was composed by a vigués
migrated to our city in the middle of the hour
of heat that summer of ’89 in the
temperatures reached as high
the average 37 degrees Celsius
go go there is no beach clearly the day
that made it was much hotter
because they were not killed with the letter
something that we can deduce from the analysis of
this letter is that in Madrid clearly
there is no beach but today we can also
affirm that many of the beaches that
they existed that summer of 1989 today they have
disappeared or are false we keep them
artificially especially in the
urbanized environments as they have been
echoed the media what
alarming of these news is not that
with the storms our beaches
disappear what is really alarming is
that we continue to blame the waves and the sea
of being carried away from the sand or damaging
chiringuitos the promenades the
houses are businesses that years ago
we build near the sea because it is not
nothing exceptional coastal erosion is
a natural phenomenon is responsible for
reducing beaches and
regression of the coasts and cliffs
it is a dynamic and continuous phenomenon that
by the action of the waves and the wind will
shaping the coasts because the
coasts are not indestructible but their
destruction will not come from the hand of
the storms their destruction is going to
arrive because human beings have
designed and we continue to mis-design their
environment this is so since it does
hundreds of years we started to occupy
build and manipulate the coasts of everything
the world to take advantage of its resources in
the year 2005 as it passes through the city of
new orleans the hurricane katrina left
behind himself a balance absolutely
desolate the days right after the
catastrophe everyone cried
scared that a hurricane had not
could bend the most powerful country in the
world we are used to this
type of natural catastrophes occur in
poor countries or even in the process of
development but not in rich countries
and with enough technology only about
days later the company looked
recognize that the fault had not been
entirely from katrina that there had been
a fault in the pipeline system
of the Mississippi river water and is that the
US body of engineers does not
they gave importance to the fact that the
city of new orleans is located in
the mouth of a huge basin of
Drain a basin that collects water
that is deposited in the territory of
approximately the surface of 41%
of the continental territory of the
united states and part of canada
a basin in which for centuries he
I andrew before Mississippi River had
shown his sovereignty facing the sea
carrying sediments and generating land
that formed alveoli thus forming the
delta that bears his name but makes
three hundred years began to channel
the river Mississippi the river was unable to
drag sediment and little by little
began a process of regression of
delta in such a way that if we do not do
nothing in the future the new city
Orleans will disappear forever between
the waters
in fact the Mississippi delta loses
every hour the surface equivalent to a
american football field that surface
they are coastal wetlands that are a
natural barrier against hurricanes its
vegetation absorbs the energy of
waves so when I get katrina what
had happened is that the delta of
Mississippi was no longer a delta and new
Orléans was closer than ever to the
sea years of water extraction from
subsoil of the city had gone
compressing causing a phenomenon of
subsidence and new real was gone
gradually plunging further the
city could not evacuate all the water from
rain of katrina and the dams
built hundreds of years ago
they began to experience some thrusts
from inside to outside that made it
were breaking in a chain and so new
orleans closer than ever to the sea and
sunk literally
this extreme example is worth to us to put
reveal the consequences of a
bad design fortunately in our
country we do not have hurricanes but neither
we need you already you have seen that
ordinary temporary generate each year
enormous damage to our coastline and this
it’s like that because planning and
coastal design has been based and
is still based on two assumptions
false the first one is that that
what we call nature is something external
to us and it’s not like that nature does not
it’s something that we consume nature is
something that we build we are part of
the plot of life we inhabit in
social systems that are
indissolubly linked to
ecological systems in which
insert we inhabit in partner systems
ecological that are adaptive and that are
complexes we have seen it can not be
isolate what happens along the river
mississippi of what happens
costs the second assumption is that
we can predict the future and we can not
psychological systems behave
as complex adaptive systems that
it means that they change they transform
to adapt to the context and in addition
can live in multiple states of
balance suffer what are called
as regenerative cycles of adaptation
we have also seen it in the case of
Mississippi we have seen as a text that
can not grow that can not beat the
sea is transformed into another type of coast
more like a sedimentary plain
that is much more vulnerable to action
the sea so if we want to design
and in socio-ecological systems what
The only thing we can do is design your
resilience
resilience is the ability to
adaptation that partner systems have
ecological for
take on the disturbances and
transform without modifying
substantially its structure and its
function for example if we go back to
example of Mississippi would be the ability
that we have to manipulate the delta and that
this one continues to function like a delta
said the German sociologist Ulrich Beck
which are the moments when the
risk feels like something global
moments when we feel the risk
as own the moments capable of
illuminate new orders well
katrina opened the eyes of society
American and has begun a
incessant process to try
recover the functioning of the river
for this they are creating
artificially meanders that get
bring sediment to the mouth of the delta and
once there he will try again
reproduce those coastal wetlands that
they protected us from storms
all that is being done through
measures based on the nature of
devices like this that you see here that
they simply serve well to channel
to transform the course of the river and
rebuild those sediments or
just to then take those
sediments and conform these islands
already internalize them even in this effort
titanic against erosion is
thinking about generating a sandy barrier
with a device like this that although
it’s called a sand engine, it ‘s nothing more
that a massive storage of
sediments in an area of the coast to
that nature works for us
so that the nature the currents and
the waves are feeding the rest of
the coast in this case this is a
prototype that he did in the part of
the coast near the beech in the year
2011
but not only is working on the
Mississippi territory is
working also within the city
of new orleans to try
return the dynamic relationship that
had in the past for this they are
reproducing spaces again
lamination ie spaces where
can contain the rainwater that
besides now they are a huge
Green infrastructure provides
parks and leisure spaces for
citizens as you see there is a whole
set of measures based on the
nature this is the design challenge
current coastal areas be able to
to induce what nature takes you
hundreds of years develop everything for
relocate coastal areas
our coastline in a state of
balance that allows us to continue
taking advantage of us to enjoy their
ecosystem benefits of the beaches
of the coastal wetlands of the lands
for agriculture
what you see here
simply a summary of this set
of measurements and are drawn as
synthetic landscape pills because
what matters is not its design what
matter are the effects that catalyze
when we set them in motion the truth
is that it is the result of my thesis
doctoral are the tools with the
I work in the office and with my
students in an effort to return
costs his lost vitality then what
we are doing because while
all these years of evil passed
design has also produced something with
what we did not sing a warm up
global that affects the masses above all
of water on the planet and that is the cause
among other phenomena of the rise
gradual sea level or
intensity of storms and hurricanes
it’s not about whether or not there’s a beach
that’s just the tip of the iceberg of
a much bigger problem
that is called to have proportions
catastrophic if we do not change our
way to design today half of
the population lives in coastal environments
and it is expected that by the year 2080 they will be
more than 100 million people
affected only by the rise in the level
of the sea so if we do not design with more
intelligence the ecosystems in which
we live if we do not seek their resilience
we run the risk of them disappearing and
if the landscapes disappear if we are not
able to find that relationship
harmonic with a dynamic living planet and
with adaptability we will be
condemned to suffer forever their
changes thanks
[Applause]
[Music]
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