Ciudad y adaptación al cambio climático: navegando por literaturas de ecología política urbana

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Esta reflexión plantea que la investigación sobre adaptación al cambio climático en espacios urbanos debe tomar relevancia frente a la actual preeminencia de estudios sobre mitigación en el sector forestal, tomando como punto de partida la situación de América Latina y el Caribe. Dos razones sustentan esta afirmación: por un lado, para cuando los efectos del cambio climático sean plenamente observables, la mayor parte de la población residirá en ciudades (actualmente 50% de la población mundial es urbana); y por el otro, la ciudad es foco principal de consumo y demanda de materias primas y del despilfarro energético. spa

This reflection suggests that more attention should be paid to research on adaptation to climate change in urban areas given the current predominance of studies on mitigation in the forest sector, taking the situation in Latin America and the Caribbean as its starting point. Two reasons support this claim: on the one hand by the time the effects of climate change are fully observable, most of the population will be living in cities (currently 50% of the world population is urban), while on the other, the city is the main focus of consumption and demand for raw materials and at the same time, the main locus of energy waste. Addressing this issue requires theoretical perspectives that integrate lines of study from the social as well as environmental sciences, and a reconceptualization of the city as a socio-environmental system. It is argued that urban political ecology provides appropriate concepts and methodologies for addressing the interdisciplinary study of urban areas, and reveals the challenges cities face in coping with a chaotic urban development driven by interests that have little to do with the population's needs. eng

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