Water Management and Climate Change in Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA), Argentina

LENTINI, EMILIO, J; BRENNER, FEDERICA S.; CATENAZZI, ANDREA; DE GOUVELLO, BERNARD; MERCADIER, AUGUSTO; MERLINSKY, MARIA GABRIELA; POCHAT, VICTOR; SCHNEIER MADANES, GRACIELA

PARIS

Conferencia; WATER, MEGACITIES AND GLOBAL CHANGE; 2015

UNESCO HQ

The AMBA faces different problems and challenges connected with water resources with different temporalities (permanent and current, short and long-term, temporary and structural); difficulties of different nature (political, environmental, urban, social, economic, legal, etc.) and different level of significance and urgency; different value and sensing in the public opinion and in those public official responsible for public policies planning. Considering this scenario, the climate change impact is not just one of the problems, but it can make the existing ones even worse increasing vulnerability and inequality.One of the main questions set forth is: which would be a government´s encouragement to take measures on climate change effects which are likely to occur out of their management period? Within a political agenda in which emergencies usually prevail, and taking into account the short visibility of the relationship between the critical nature of some environmental and urban problems and the climate change in urban policies design.