Transformative Urban Coalitions (TUC) City Profile: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Guerra, Flávia / Gabriela Merlinsky / Jorgelina Hardoy / Daniel Kozak / Michael Roll / Tobías Melina / Pablo Pereira
Externe Publikationen (2022)

Bonn: United Nations University - Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS)

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To fight the climate crisis, cities have to become more sustainable now. Transformations towards sustainability must be based on the specific urban characteristics of each city. An analysis of the current factors that may or may not enable urban sustainability transformations is a first step for developing locally suited strategies. TUC City Profiles is a series of short reports developed as part of the Transformative Urban Coalitions (TUC) project to share insights into the existing challenges and opportunities in order to address cross-cutting urban sustainability transformation and development issues through inclusive climate action in the five Latin American TUC cities. The following short report summarizes the main findings from a political economy and ecology analysis of Buenos Aires, Argentina, describing its main geographic, socioeconomic and environmental characteristics, as well as climate governance set-up. It concludes with suggested entry points for transformative change towards sustainability.

Über den Autor

Roll, Michael

Soziologie

Roll

Weitere Expert*innen zu diesem Thema

Aleksandrova, Mariya

Climate risk governance 

Asimeng, Emmanuel Theodore

Stadtplanung, Nachhaltigkeit 

Brandi, Clara

Ökonomie und Politikwissenschaft 

Dippel, Beatrice

Komparatistik 

Donnelly, Aiveen

Politikwissenschaft 

Ekoh, Susan S.

Umweltwissenschaft 

Goedeking, Nicholas

Vergleichende politische Ökonomie 

Gutheil, Lena

Ethnologie 

Hägele, Ramona

Politikwissenschaftlerin 

Jauregui Fung, Franco

Architektur, Urbane Ballungsräume 

Lehmann, Ina

Politikwissenschaft 

Löpelt, Sarah

Internationale Beziehungen und Nachhaltigkeitspolitik 

Malerba, Daniele

Ökonomie 

Mathis, Okka Lou

Politikwissenschaftlerin 

Rodríguez de Francisco, Jean Carlo

Ökologische Ökonomie 

Srigiri, Srinivasa Reddy

Agrarökonom 

Subramanian, Saravanan

Geographie 

Zumegen, Lisa

Urbane Transformation