From social vulnerability to climate change vulnerability: a space partnership in the southern peri-urban area of Quito

Authors

  • Diego Javier Enríquez Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales - Flacso Ecuador.

Keywords:

Vulnerability, climate change, peri-urban, Quito.

Abstract

The impact of social vulnerability on vulnerability to climate change may be viewed with broad causality, but not as the only partnership option. The research question, which is accentuated by capacity and social recursiveness criteria, asks whether the conditions of social vulnerability and quality of life shape the spatiality of peri-urban climate change. The methodological context is quantitative, socio-spatial and observational in a case study of the City of Quito and its areas of growth. The AVEO (assets, vulnerability and structure of opportunities) and Quality-of-Life approaches are used to spatially assess vulnerability and risk of climate change, and to make comparisons between the southeast and southwest axes of the peri-urban area of Quito that show signs of community climate resilience, towards 2010. Assessments that prioritize organizational and social cohesion criteria suggest less unfavorable territorial differences and conditions in the face of extreme hydrometeorological climatic threats due to their local significance. Not all social vulnerability conditions imply a link to vulnerability to climate change with a corresponding intensity. This urban research project proposes a hybrid contribution of knowledge, recommended for multi-criteria climate change assessments. The social construction of the perceived risk and vulnerability conditions are challenges to urban adaptation in pro of a socio-spatial and ecological balance.

Author Biography

Diego Javier Enríquez, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales - Flacso Ecuador.

Especialista en sostenibilidad urbana. Ha estudiado Ingeniería Ambiental y la Maestría en Estudios Urbanos en FLACSO – Ecuador. En lo académico, ha participado en investigaciones con universidades y en proyectos de la región, abordando enfoques locales, de desarrollo, y de resiliencia. Ha trabajado la última década en la Unidad de Cambio Climático del Municipio de Quito, y tiene una experiencia en el sector privado, en temas de energía y recursos naturales. Ha sido parte del grupo de trabajo para definir un Perfil de Certificación como Especialista Urbano de Cambio Climático, propuesto por el Banco Mundial y otras organizaciones.

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Published

2022-11-02

Issue

Vol 12, No 2 (2022)

Section

Papers

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