EMS in URBIS 2003

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Sharing Cities Southern Cone Coastal Cities Partners for an Ecoefficient City
Sharing Cities Southern Cone Coastal Cities Ecoefficient Cities Culture and Sustainable Development
The EMS promotes the exchange of experiences on innovative models for urban environmental management among the cities of Latin America and the Caribbean. Research centres, working together with municipalities of the region, offer the results of research funded by the EMS as well as information on the operational context and on the participating experts and institutions. The objective is to facilitate comparison, transfer of results and direct consultation on each one of these experiences. In this area, the EMS facilitates access to all this information.
A Seminar organised in the city of Montevideo (1997) by the Merco Cities Network, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Ibero-American Urban Strategic Development Centre, the Municipality of Montevideo and the International Development Research Centre, allowed for the analysis of coastal management issues, urban regeneration and sustainability and institutional coordination, that governments of coastal cities in the Southern Cone of the Americas face. As a result of this Seminar, the EMS promotes and facilitates access to information and creates links between specialised research centres and municipalities to analyse possible improvements in the governmental programmes of these coastal cities. The permanent growth of urban societies (population, economy, production) poses one of the greatest challenges for the efficient management of the urban environment in the Latin America and the Caribbean region. Not being able to respond to demands derived from this urban growth sets limits to the search for models to reorganise responsibilities, including associations with the private sector as well as with expressions of the civil society. The EMS promotes links between research centres dealing with these issues by conducting comparative analyses of association models used and considering mainly: mechanisms for financing, social participation structure and negotiation mechanisms to meet social, economic and environmental objectives, as well as monitoring mechanisms to check their compliance with agreed objectives. IDRC together with the EMS have started a search for potential instruments to analyse and understand cultural assessment alternatives and the management of cultural and natural heritage in sustainable development programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean. 

 


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