Analysis of Informal Settlements in Risk Areas: Perspective of Sustainable and Resilient City
| International Journal of Civil Engineering |
| © 2025 by SSRG - IJCE Journal |
| Volume 12 Issue 10 |
| Year of Publication : 2025 |
| Authors : Tanya Veridiana Cueva Keanchong, Bryan Alfonso Colorado Pástor, Juan Carlos Briones Macias, Rommy Adelfa Torres del Salto |
10.14445/23488352/IJCE-V12I10P101
How to Cite?
Tanya Veridiana Cueva Keanchong, Bryan Alfonso Colorado Pástor, Juan Carlos Briones Macias, Rommy Adelfa Torres del Salto, "Analysis of Informal Settlements in Risk Areas: Perspective of Sustainable and Resilient City," SSRG International Journal of Civil Engineering, vol. 12, no. 10, pp. 1-8, 2025. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23488352/IJCE-V12I10P101
Abstract:
Starting in the new century and between the time of transition from the sucre to the dollar in Ecuador (1999), a boom was generated in terms of the growth of informal settlements, especially in the Northeast and Northwest areas of Guayaquil because the land was much cheaper and in relationship without any legal owner, generating internal and external problems around risk in the territory. Therefore, by choosing the Coop, we want to demonstrate how urban environmental analysis can generate objective solutions for risk reduction in informal settlements. Sergio Toral Stage 1 as a case study. Among the methods used, the ethnographic and hermeneutical research design stands out for the development of strategies that protect these guidelines. The methodology is based on a qualitative and quantitative approach in relation to risk in the territory. In conclusion, it is obtained that the strategy generates a risk mitigation percentage of 52%, which meets the urban green index regulations, and that, through ODS guidelines, it would generate a risk reduction of 90% with the established actions.
Keywords:
Territorial risk, Sustainability, Informal settlements, Resilience.
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