Publicado por
Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt
Descripción
Territorial Security is a concept-tool on which the author has been working since 2003. It has been tested in real territories and crisis scenarios to later be adjusted and reinforced based on the lessons learned in such experiences. It has also been used to read, interpret, and systematize processes related with environmental management, risk management, adaptation to climate change, and participative territorial planning, all subjects from which various publications have been produced. Both the theoretical foundations of this concept-tool and the methodology for its application facilitate the construction of common perspectives of the territory among the different actors and sectors and the identification of mutual dependencies and shared interests even between those actors and sectors that hold contradictory positions. As a result, this concept-tool has been used as a conflict transformation facilitator. The
author has worked with the Latin American Office of the United Nations Center for Regional Development (UNCRD) on several projects, sharing lessons derived from the application of the Human Security and the Territorial Security. These are two complementary concept-tools with common theoretical background. Here the use of Territorial Security as a tool for the analysis, zoning, and participative management of wetlands is proposed with the goal of making wetlands inherently safe territories and also understanding their strategic function to attain Territorial Security in those larger areas where wetlands are found.
