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#15 - Juan Pablo Rodríguez Sánchez: "Restrictions and constraints breed innovation" - sewers and nature-based solutions in Colombia
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Juan Pablo Rodríguez Sánchez, Associate Professor at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia shares how data scarcity is not a limitation, but rather, an opportunity for innovation in both the wastewater system and his current topic, nature-based solutions. We explore his passion for his country Colombia and career-long passion case study, Bogotá.
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Chapters
1. Intro (00:00:00)
2. Guest introduction, the horse and the cow (00:01:11)
3. Changes in Colombia (00:05:45)
4. Juan Pablo's journey from Bogotá to London (00:07:43)
5. A little history with João Paulo Leitão (00:07:57)
6. Urbanization and expansion of sewers (00:10:20)
7. A 7.5-year study on sewer blockages (00:11:17)
8. Juan Pablo's philosophy on data scarcity (00:13:33)
9. Modelling sewer systems (00:17:02)
10. How has sewer asset management evolved? (00:21:16)
11. The journey back to Bogotá (00:22:10)
12. Nature-based solutions terminology (00:22:31)
13. Switching from sewers to nature-based solutions (00:24:00)
14. Designing nature-based solutions in Colombia (00:27:32)
15. Juan Pablo's work on planning tools for nature-based solutions (00:30:04)
16. Inequalities in a city, challenges for nature-based solutions (00:40:23)
17. Ecosystem services as a common framework (00:42:38)
18. The future of nature-based solutions in Colombia (00:46:28)
19. Q&A Session (00:50:06)
20. If you had a magic wand? (00:50:18)
21. What inspires you? (00:51:27)
22. Key event, person, book (00:52:35)
23. Biggest challenge in career to date (00:54:52)
24. Time management (00:58:17)
25. Advice for early career? (00:59:48)
26. Final message (01:01:02)
27. Outro (01:02:11)
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