Abstract

LUNA-NEMECIO, Josemanuel. The Neoliberal City as a Space for Environmental and Health Emergencies. The Case of the Morelos Urban Circuit and the Epidemiological Circuits of COVID-19 in the State of Morelos, Mexico. Cuad. Geogr. Rev. Colomb. Geogr. [online]. 2023, vol.32, n.2, pp.280-293.  Epub Feb 29, 2024. ISSN 0121-215X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/rcdg.v32n2.105232.

During neoliberalism, cities have increased their social metabolism, investment in the commodity market and the proliferation of conditions of environmental devastation and degradation of the health of the population that inhabits them. The present study explored the levels of spatial concatenation that exist between the cities of the state of Morelos in the form of urban corridors, and those municipalities of the entity where the highest cases of contagion by COVID-19 infection occurred. An approximate territorial study was carried out with a descriptive scope, and the relationship of variables was made from the principle of collinearity. The main contribution of the article is to show that the environmental degradation of the territory is a circumstance for the production of conditions for a greater prevalence of morbidities, for which the cases of COVID-19 can be considered as environmental patients. It is concluded that the spatial configuration of four urban corridors that totalize the cities of Morelos, ends up articulating an urban circuit that was called Arco Urbano Morelense, taken as a spatial condition for the generation of an epidemiological circuit that concentrates the confirmed cases of COVID-19.

Keywords : environmental deterioration; communicable disease; epidemiology; neoliberalism; urbanization.

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