About Hilda Herzer
Lived 1942 – 2013 (aged 70–71). Hilda Herzer was an Argentine sociologist and environmentalist.
Hilda María Herzer (1938, Buenos Aires - 25 August 2012) was an Argentine sociologist, environmentalist and professor. She was a researcher with FLACSO, and visiting professor at Universidad Nacional del Litoral.
She earned her bachelor's degree at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires in 1960, and her PhD in social sciences at New York University. Herzer was a pioneer in the field of urban studies in Argentina. Her fieldwork, conducted with her research group, focused on the city of Pergamino. She is remembered for her teaching and research at the Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani and for serving as director of the Research Institute of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, 1989 and 1990. Throughout her career, she established a body of research and publications on environmental and urban issues. In early 2000s, she was the board chair and then honorary president of the environmental and human rights group Salus Terrae.
Selected works 2012, Barrios al Sur – Renovación y pobreza en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. 1ª ed. Editorial Café de las Ciudades. 412 pp. 2011, La cuestión urbana interrogada: transformaciones urbanas, ambientales y políticas públicas en Argentina. 1ª ed. Buenos Aires: Café de las Ciudades, 556 pp. resumen en línea en línea 2010, Con el Corazón Mirando al Sur. Editorial Espacio. 368 pp. 2000, “Procesos Urbanos y Hábitat: El rol de los actores en la construcción y la gestión de la ciudad”. En: Cuaderno de la Maestría en Hábitat y Vivienda. Universidad Nacional de Rosario Editora. Rosario, Argentina 1997, Postales Urbanas Del Final Del Milenio: Una Construcción de Muchos. Vol. 8 de Colección Sociedad. Edición ilustrada de Univ. de Buenos Aires, Instituto de Investigaciones "Gino Germani," Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, 252 pp. , 1996, Ciudad de Buenos Aires: gobierno y descentralización. Vol. 4 de Colección CEA-CBC. Editor Oficina de Publicaciones del C.B.C., Universidad de Buenos Aires, 309 pp. , 1996, Ciudades en riesgo: degradación ambiental, riesgos urbanos y desastres en América Latina. Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series. Editor Soluciones Prácticas, 190 pp. , en línea 1994, Modelo teórico-conceptual para la gestión urbana en ciudades medianas de América Latina. Naciones Unidas. Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe. Editor CEPAL, 50 pp. 1990, Construcción y Administración de la Ciudad Latinoamericana. Colección Estudios políticos y sociales. Con Nora Clichevsky. Edición ilustrada de IIED—América Latina, 526 pp. , 1985, La inundación en el Gran Resistencia (provincia del Chaco, Argentina) 1982- 1983. Desastres naturales y Sociedad en América Latina. Buenos Aires. Grupo Editor Latinoamericano. CLACSO. Colección Estudios Políticos y Sociales. en línea
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Argentinian sociologist
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Hilda Herzer was born in 1942 in Buenos Aires.
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Hilda Herzer died on 25 August 2013 in Buenos Aires.
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