Representations of Nature, City and Climate Change. The case of the young inhabitants of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area

DEL ACEBO IBÁÑEZ, ENRIQUE

Buffalo, NY

Congreso; The Big Thaw: Policy, Governance & Climate Change in the Circumpolar North; 2013

Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, SUNY ? Buffalo

Climate change is analyzed as a total phenomenon, including economic, social, cultural and environmental dimensions, focusing in the case of the city of Buenos Aires, and the way Young inhabitants perceive the fact of inhabiting. The results of a quantitative study applied to a non probabilistic sample (with quotas of age, gender and SEL) of young inhabitants of the Buenos Aires Meteropolitan Area, are analyzed. Attitudes, behaviors and individual representations are meassured and analyzed in terms of rootedness, anomie, participation, age, gender and socioeconomic level.