Gradiente de vulnerabilidad socio-ambiental en el Partido de Quilmes, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Abstract

In order to generate adaptive capacity, that is, to be able to avoid losses and accelerate recovery after any climatic impact, it is essential, among other actions, to have territorial information. Detecting vulnerabilities in time, such as territorial fragmentations produced by socio-environmental inequality, can make a difference for efficient risk management. For this reason, this work proposes an analysis based on the proposal to apply a socio-environmental vulnerability index for the Quilmes district in order to obtain environmental metadata necessary for possible adaptation and resilience policies to climate change. Despite some limitations that the index presents, it ends up being a good indicator of the diversity of social and environmental situations present in Quilmes. The variables with the most weight are households not connected to the sewer network, households with insufficient quality of services, households without computers, households without gas, and households with insufficient construction quality. In the results of this study, social and environmental heterogeneity is present, even within the villages that are the most affected places.

Keywords: Vulnerability; Socio-environmental; villages; censals ratios; Quilmes.