Oswaldo López-Bernal is a professor at the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia, and a consultant at the Institute for Prospection, Innovation and Knowledge Management at the same university. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Faculty of Environmental Design of the Université de Montréal, funded by a grant offered by the Canadian government. He holds a PhD in urban planning from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City, and a master’s degree in sustainable development, with a specialization in disaster prevention and management, from the Universidad del Valle in partnership with Tulane University. He also holds a master’s degree in urban environmental management for development from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, and a certificate in environmental management of solid urban waste from the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in Nagoya, Japan. Initiatives in Yumbo, Colombia Mail Link