Federalism and environmental policies in the Metropolitan Region of Buenos Aires, Argentina

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05/2012
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Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Estudios Urbanos. Instituto de Estudios Urbanos y Territoriales
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Eure (Santiago)
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0250-7161
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0717-6236
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La articulación entre la escala metropolitana de los problemas y la multiplicidad de jurisdicciones gubernamentales constituye un desafío para cualquier política ambiental. Centrado en la Región Metropolitana de Buenos Aires, este trabajo aborda la coordinación de políticas ambientales metropolitanas en un contexto federal. La primera parte describe la región metropolitana, el modo en que el federalismo argentino distribuye competencias ambientales entre niveles de gobierno, los mecanismos institucionales para la gestión metropolitana y las características y principales deficiencias de las organizaciones interjurisdiccionales que operan en la región metropolitana. La segunda parte discute los factores que explican esas deficiencias. Se argumenta que las fallas de coordinación metropolitana de políticas ambientales se explican por la interacción entre las instituciones federales y otras variables del sistema político, como la lógica de acumulación partidaria, la configuración de las agendas de gobierno, el papel de las burocracias estatales y el impacto del activismo ambiental.
In any metropolitan region, the articulation between metropolitan scale of issues and the multiplicity of government jurisdictions poses a challenge for the implementation of environmental policies. Focused on the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Region, this article examines the coordination of metropolitan environmental policies in a federal context. The first part describes the metropolitan region and its main environmental problems, the way in which Argentine federalism assigns environmental competences to the different government levels and the mechanisms it sets for metropolitan governance, and the characteristics and flaws of the inter-jurisdictional organizations at work in the metropolitan region. The second part discusses the factors explaining those flaws. It argues that the shortcomings of the metropolitan coordination of environmental policies are explained by the interaction between federal institutions and other political system variables such as the dynamics of party-electoral accumulation, the setting of government agendas, the role of state bureaucracies, and the impact of environmental activism.
In any metropolitan region, the articulation between metropolitan scale of issues and the multiplicity of government jurisdictions poses a challenge for the implementation of environmental policies. Focused on the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Region, this article examines the coordination of metropolitan environmental policies in a federal context. The first part describes the metropolitan region and its main environmental problems, the way in which Argentine federalism assigns environmental competences to the different government levels and the mechanisms it sets for metropolitan governance, and the characteristics and flaws of the inter-jurisdictional organizations at work in the metropolitan region. The second part discusses the factors explaining those flaws. It argues that the shortcomings of the metropolitan coordination of environmental policies are explained by the interaction between federal institutions and other political system variables such as the dynamics of party-electoral accumulation, the setting of government agendas, the role of state bureaucracies, and the impact of environmental activism.
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