Descripción
Sumario:This thesis seeks to address the analysis of the perception of risk that exists in a settlement in the San Fernando district, in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires.\nTaking into account the urbanization process that crossed the "Presidente Perón" neighborhood between 2009 and 2012, the present work intends to analyze what risks remain in the neighborhood, how its inhabitants perceive it and the treatment the State makes of it.\nThe general objective of the thesis is to analyze the perception of the risk that the residents of the Presidente Perón neighborhood have and to explore what they relate to the concept of risk and how they do it. To this end, special attention will be paid to the criteria used by the population to identify risks, coincidences or differences between the risks detected and those identified by the residents, and finally to examine whether the residents make environmental demands and assess whether there is or no relation between the demands and the perception they have. The main hypotheses that will guide this thesis are two: The inhabitants do not always clearly identify the environmental risks that exist in their neighborhood. And in cases where they manage to identify the risks to which they are exposed, they do not always find institutional channels to enforce their demands.