Resettlement: A loose link to reach the sustainable develompment goals?

Abstract

The city is one of the scenarios in which the commitments assumed by the State in the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) take shape, those that the 2030 Agenda imposed on governments to articulate their purposes, functions and management instruments in order to achieve sustainability. In this context, the purpose of this article is to make a critical analysis of the articulation between disaster risk management, land use planning and environmental law in the attention of resettlement processes in the framework of the right to the City to achieve the SDGs in Colombia, under the premise of the need for legal and political articulation of the decisions required from these areas to manage the vulnerability of the population facing the impacts of climate change in cities. The qualitative model was used, supported by the historical hermeneutic approach and the legal dogmatic approach, in addition to following a systematic interpretation. It is evident that, in the field of international law, although there is no unified and binding regulation, the keys for the systematization of the different regimes and the institutional articulation necessary to propose a conceptual framework for resettlement as a measure for the protection of rights with clear obligations for the authorities that allow the realization of the SDGs have been provided.