Climate change and flood risk

Vulnerability assessment in an urban poor community in Mexico

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12243201
AutoresJuan Alberto Gran-Castro (0000-0003-0871-2443, autor de correspondencia), Silvia Lizette Ramos De Roble (0000-0002-3080-8209), Silvia Lizette Ramos de Robles
Año2019
Volumen31
Número1
Páginas75-92
Fecha de publicación2019-02-17
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEnvironment and Urbanization (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0956-2478 • E-ISSN: 1746-0301
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0956247819827850
OpenAlexW2911983863
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas42

The impacts of climate change tend to be unevenly distributed, affecting mostly urban poor communities. This research analyses the case of El Colli, a community with high levels of marginalization and urban poverty in an area characterized by informal settlements in the Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara (state of Jalisco, Mexico). The main objective was to analyse the vulnerability to climate change in El Colli, focusing on the flood risk it is exposed to and using a mixed-methods design with various research tools. The findings show the specific aspects of vulnerability in a context of urban poverty, in which basic municipal services are scarce, government action is inadequate and residents show a high acceptance of risk. Based on the data, we state the need to incorporate local urban challenges into the debate on climate change, particularly those affecting informal settlements

Climate change · Context (archaeology · Economic growth · Environmental planning · Flood myth · Geography · Human settlement · Informal settlements · Metropolitan area · Poverty · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing · Climate change impacts on agriculture · Flood Risk Assessment and Management · Land Use and Ecosystem Services