Universidad Veracruzana – Â鶹ÊÓƵ Thu, 08 Aug 2024 19:57:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-favicon_logo-32x32.jpg Universidad Veracruzana – Â鶹ÊÓƵ 32 32 Towards a Circular Cordoba: Innovative approaches to waste integrated management and reduction /projects/towards-a-circular-cordoba-innovative-approaches-to-waste-integrated-management-and-reduction/ Thu, 08 Aug 2024 19:57:15 +0000 /?post_type=projects&p=18037 Read More... from Towards a Circular Cordoba: Innovative approaches to waste integrated management and reduction

]]> The municipality of Cordoba, in the state of Veracruz, Mexico, has a population of almost 205,000 inhabitants in 89 rural and 6 urban locations. More than 186,000 kg of municipal solid waste is collected daily in the municipality, which is equivalent to an average daily generation per person of 1 kg of municipal solid waste and an annual generation of more than 67,700 tons. To this must be added an unknown volume of waste that is incinerated in private homes or dumped directly into vacant land or bodies of water.

Of the waste collected through the municipal public cleaning system, only a small fraction is recycled or composted, most of the waste being deposited in a sanitary landfill located 32 km from the municipal seat, generating high environmental, social, and economic costs to the municipality of Cordoba and its surroundings. The municipality identifies a need for a comprehensive municipal solid waste management program that outlines strategies for waste reduction in housing and commerce, as well as low-cost and highly adaptable mechanisms that optimize the collection, composting and recovery of such waste.

18 courses from 9 bachelor programs are involved in the design of innovative proposals to inform a municipal integrated waste management and reduction strategy. This project is operated in collaboration with the Municipality of Cordoba and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Mexico.

]]> Â鶹ÊÓƵ Fidecoagua: Strengthening a local payment for ecosystem services program /projects/epic-fidecoagua/ Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:40:51 +0000 https://commons.epicn.org/projects/epic-fidecoagua/ Read More... from Â鶹ÊÓƵ Fidecoagua: Strengthening a local payment for ecosystem services program

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In response to a severe drought suffered in 2002 in the central region of Veracruz, Mexico, the Fideicomiso para la Promoción y Preservación de la Zona Montañosa de Coatepec (Fidecoagua) was established as a decentralized public agency of the Coatepec City Council, in charge of the payment for environmental services program of Coatepec, the first of its kind at the national level.

As part of the collaboration agreement signed between Fidecoagua and Universidad Veracruzana in 2022, this project seeks to strengthen the payment for environmental services program by improving the living conditions of forest owners enrolled in it, increasing voluntary contributions to the fund and developing technical projects to support Fidecoagua’s management.

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