Mendoza and Buenos Aires

PULIAFITO, ENRIQUE; CONTE GRAND, MARIANA; CIVIT, BÁRBARA; BOCHACA, FABIÁN; GAIOLI, F.; TARELA, PABLO

Can Cities Reduce Global Warming ? Urban Development and the Carbon Cycle in Latin America

Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana de México- Xochimilco (UAM-X), IAI, IHDP, GCP

Lugar: Méjico; Año: 2005; p. 39 - 64

Preface: ?Can Cities Reduce Global Warming? Urban development and the carbon cycle in Latin America?is a first phase of a longer-term networking and research effort, it has taken one year and involved the participation of investigators and students from the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM-Xochimilco) in Mexico, the University of Chile, and the Universities of Mendoza and del CEMA in Argentina. This research report is a first step of a long-time effort aimed at establishing a well-coordinated set of case studies on urban development and the carbon cycle in the Americas. A two-fold purpose lies behind this endeavor. We intend firstly to further develop two research priorities identified by the Global Carbon Project (GCP): understanding the consequences of different pathways of urban development on the carbon cycle, and identifying points of management and intervention aimed at designing less-carbon intensive development pathways. We seek secondly to integrate those studies with the ones underway within other programs and institutional umbrellas, namely: ?Urbanization, emissions and the global carbon cycle? sponsored by System for Analysis Research and Training (START), National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), GCP, and the Packard Foundation, and ?Integrating Carbon into Developing Strategies of Cities - Establishing a Network of Case Studies of Urbanization in Asia-Pacific?, financed by the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN). This report has been possible thanks to the generous sponsorship and endorsement of diverse institutions: Inter American Institute for Global Environmental Change (CGP II-030), Human Dimensions Program on Global Environmental Change (IHDP), Global Carbon Project (GCP), and the Metropolitan Autonomous University- Xochimilco (UAM-X). We hope that this document helps promote and encourage research on the relationships between cities and carbon, not only in the Americas, but also all around the world. Patricia Romero Lankao, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco, SSP-GCP   Enrique Puliafito, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional /CONICET Alejandro León Universidad de Chile Mariana Conte Grand Universidad del CEMA