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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Carrizo, Silvina
• Carre, Marie Noelle

Titel

Energy Vulnerability in Buenos Aires Metropolis

Ist Teil von

• Territorios (Bogotá, Colombia), 2014-01, Vol.30 (30), p.127-146

Ort / Verlag

Bogota: Universidad del Rosario, Centro de Estudios Politicos e Internacionales

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In line with recommendations of the International Energy Agency, Argentina has recently made energy efficiency a national priority. Buenos Aires is committed to various international programs to rationalize the use of energy and tackle growing Climate Change challenges. Initiatives to modify the terms and conditions of energy supply and consumption are appearing at different scales, revealing the precariousness and vulnerability of the whole system. Thus, this paper sheds light on the main drawbacks of Argentine Energy Model and it presents some of the changes taking place regarding these issues. It focuses on strategies and measures promoted to prepare Buenos Aires metropolitan region for critical situations. In general initiatives are implemented individually and they result insufficient to meet the challenges. The continuity of Argentine Energy Model based on the intensive use of fossil fuels that serve infrastructure functioning near its maimum capacity and territories not prepared for potential crises, could eplain metropolitan energy system vulnerability.