Territorial equity measurement in Buenos Aires Province (Argentina).

AUER, ALEJANDRA; MIKKELSEN, CLAUDIA; ARES, SOFIA

Handbook of Quality of Life and Sustainability: Socio-spatial and Multidisciplinary Perspective

Springer

Año: 2021; p. 227 - 252

Spatial inequality is a concern that reveals the existence of fragments of well-being anddeficiencies; thus, quality of life studies become a way of approximating the analysis of these inequalities.This study aims to analyze territorial equity in the province of Buenos Aires (Argentina) based on the analysis of different indicators of quality of life and sustainability, and measured at the district level. The methodology used was based on theanalysis of indicators that integrate the characterizing dimensions of quality of life, suchas education, water and health, dwellings, economic activity and employment, communication and connectivity, as well as the environment, through statistical methods and geographic information systems. The latter was used to express the analytical results spatially; that is, they were mapped for a better comprehension of the territory and the multiple dimensions articulated in its construction.The data sources applied corresponded with the National Census of Population, Homes andHousing (INDEC 2010), digital elevation models and monthly precipitation data (period1963?2012), as well as reports from the Ombudsman?s Office of the Nation (2010) andthe Ombudsman of the province of Buenos Aires (2018).