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Publish Date 23/09/2020
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COLOMBIA RETERRITORIALIZATION & STRATEGIES OF COMPASSIONS

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Document Type: General
Publish Date: 23-Sep-20
Primary Author: German A. Quimbayo Ruiz , Juha Kotilainen, Matti Salo
Edited By: Tabassum Rahmani
Published By: Elsevier

Much of the research on urbanization has focused on how rural populations move to cities for work opportunities. This paper takes a different perspective on the relations between rural populations and urbanization. The livelihoods of rural dwellers on the outskirts of the city of Bogota ´ in Colombia are increasingly affected by the expansion of urban activities and infrastructure. Therefore, urbanization takes place in the areas of residence of the rural populations; these people do not migrate to the city but, rather, the city migrates to them.

Consequently, rural ways of life face growing competition from the production of commodities and services on the urban-rural fringe, including quarrying and landfills serving the needs of industries and urban populations. We explore how rural populations and their livelihoods have transformed as a response to these urban dynamics and the expansion of the city. We focus on the strategies that the rural populations employ to deal with the physical and socio-ecological impacts of this change

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