Sustainable proposal to mitigate the adverse climatic effects in a coastal city of Argentina

Abstract

Sustainable climatic indicators are useful tools to complement urban land use planning and could be beneficial for the quality of life. In this study, it was designed an urban-climatic-indicator for Bahía Blanca city considering meteorological variables and perception analyses. It allows delimiting four urban regions. Then, a sustainable proposal was made in order to mitigate the adverse climatic effect from the application of DPSIR method. Results permitted considering that an early implementation of this proposal and the active participation of stakeholders and decision makers is needed to improve the current conditions of the city. With the measures proposed inhabitants know how to respond in case of the occurrence of various extreme meteorological events, discomfort conditions, etc. As a simple method, the methodology used in this study can be replicated in other cities worldwide with the aim of improving the quality of life of the inhabitants.