| Sumario: | The research results presented here are a first approach to studying the relationship between consumption and environment in the Mexico City Metropolitan Zone. The main goal of this analysis is to know how consumption patterns and their social determinants affect the environment.We have developed a methodology to analyze the effect of Mexico City household consumption on regional air pollution, based on two sources of information: the Emissions Inventory and the National Income and Expenditure Survey. The combination of these sources offers a measure of environmental damage produced by the use of public and private transportation, defined in this work as "money spent on transportation". This variable, combined with the emmission of substances into the air, produces an indirect measure of how a specific form of household consumption, that of transportation, pollutes the urban environment.
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