Avila-Foucat
Biographic Data
| ID | 1582571 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Avila-Foucat |
| FAMILY NAME | Avila-Foucat |
| SIGNATURE | AVILA-FOUCAT |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0540-9417 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Tourism enterprises capacities to face coastal exposure in Yucatán coast of Mexico
The coastal tourism sector is highly exposed to the effects of climate change (CC). The aim of the study was to analyze the relationship between exposure to CC and the level of capital assets (CA) in tourism enterprises in Yucatán coast. CA represents capacities' tourism enterprises have to confront exposure to CC. Analyzing the relationship between exposure and enterprises' capacities in a spatial manner is important, and this topic has hardly b…
Assessing livelihood resilience over time in two rural coastal communities in Mexico
Rural livelihoods are threatened by disturbances that reduce household resilience. While capital assets, learning capacities, self-reliance, diversity, and connectivity enhance resilience, these indicators have not yet been fully operationalized or tested empirically over time at the household level. This study develops a livelihood resilience index that measures changes in these capacities across two rural case studies over 2013 and 2016. Result…
Climate change resilience of tourism enterprises on the Yucatán coast, Mexico
Coastal tourism enterprises are constantly at risk due to increasing climate change (CC) events and effects. Thus, understanding tourism enterprise resilience against climate change (RACC) is relevant. It is defined as the capacities of the enterprise to sustain its activity and detect innovation for transformation measured in terms of risk perception, positive perception for learning, planning, adapting and transforming in the face of changes in…
Whale watching choice experiment to assess boat crowding and whale abundance on tourist willingness to pay in Mexico
Public policy instruments coherence analysis to address coastal risk in Yucatan, Mexico
Coastal risk is a condition increased by climate change and oceanic changes. Its governance involves diverse areas of public policy and government levels that, in the best-case scenario, would act in a coordinated manner and with a focus that favors local government leadership. This manuscript analyzes the coherence of diverse public policies related to coastal risk in three communities in Mexico to demonstrate a challenge of local climate govern…
Diversification determinants, spatial heterogeneity and scenarios for small producers in Mexico
Diversification is a strategy adopted by households for their survival and resilience in the face of change. Capital assets have been shown to be determinants of diversification, but studies showing its spatial heterogeneity are scarce. Thus, this article aims to answer: How significant are household capital assets and connectivity in explaining diversification? and how does diversification vary spatially? The results for landowners in Oaxaca, Me…
The historical trajectory of a coffee agri-food system
Agri-food social-ecological systems (AFSES) embrace complex interactions and processes of food production, processing, and commercialization that are subject to constant changes. This study develops a heuristic approach using the adaptive cycle (AC) and a transformation potential measure to identify the historical trajectory of a coffee AFSES at a watershed scale in Copalita, Mexico, over 40 years from 1980 to 2020. Primary information was collec…
Analysis of the watershed social–ecological system trajectory in Copalita-Huatulco, Mexico
In watersheds, which function as social–ecological systems (SESs), hydrological ecosystem services (HESs) are crucial flows connecting natural and social components. The internal and external drivers that shape HESs and watershed SES trajectories create complexities in watershed management. In this study, the adaptive cycle framework was adopted, and a qualitative method is proposed to analyze the impacts of drivers on the HES and the watershed S…
Looking back to shape the future
The role of situated knowledge and values in reshaping payment for hydrological services programs in Veracruz, Mexico
Analytical framework for assessing the social-ecological system trajectory considering the resilience-vulnerability dynamic interaction in the context of disasters
Household’s Allocation of Payment for Ecosystem Services in “La Antigua” Watershed, Veracruz, México
Payment for ecosystem services (PES) is an environmental policy looking to improve ecosystem conservation and well-being. Assets have been used to evaluate socioeconomic outcomes of the program; however, the allocation of PES at a household level and its explaining variables have not been addressed. Thus, the aim of this article is to study the allocation of PES in nondurable and durable goods and the determinants of this household decision. Resu…
Non-timber forest product importance for rural household well-being in four coastal communities in Oaxaca, Mexico
Rural household livelihoods usually depend on the use of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) as a strategy for income diversification and survival. Thus, this research seeks to determine the role played by NTFPs at the household level. A survey was conducted with 212 households in four localities with a high degree of marginalization, located on the South Pacific coast of Mexico in Oaxaca State. The results show that, firstly, NTFPs are used by al…
Vulnerability, family assets, and income-generating strategies of households in rural Mexico
This study is a first step in analyzing, on a national scale in Mexico, the assets, income and vulnerability context of households in rural communities. A multinomial logit model was used to show the impact of family labor, education, indigenous status, climate change, and access to markets on the probability of belonging to the different categories of households with diverse sustainable livelihoods. Our results provide evidence that increasing i…
Households’ Resilience to Hurricanes in Coastal Communities of Oaxaca, Mexico
Hurricanes represent a common threat to coastal communities, affecting livelihood strategies and assets. Households are resilient if they can recover from a stress or shock while maintaining and arranging assets to secure a sustainable livelihood. The objective of this research is to measure the degree of resilience in the coastal households of Oaxaca, Mexico, following a hurricane using the asset approach and describing diversity, connectivity, …
Determinants of livelihood diversification
Environmental policies in the peri-urban area of Mexico City
Municipality socioeconomic characteristics and the probability of occurrence of Wildlife Management Units in Mexico
An ecological–economic model for catchment management
Determinants of livelihood diversification
Environmental policies in the peri-urban area of Mexico City
The role of situated knowledge and values in reshaping payment for hydrological services programs in Veracruz, Mexico
The historical trajectory of a coffee agri-food system
Agri-food social-ecological systems (AFSES) embrace complex interactions and processes of food production, processing, and commercialization that are subject to constant changes. This study develops a heuristic approach using the adaptive cycle (AC) and a transformation potential measure to identify the historical trajectory of a coffee AFSES at a watershed scale in Copalita, Mexico, over 40 years from 1980 to 2020. Primary information was collec…
Vulnerability, family assets, and income-generating strategies of households in rural Mexico
This study is a first step in analyzing, on a national scale in Mexico, the assets, income and vulnerability context of households in rural communities. A multinomial logit model was used to show the impact of family labor, education, indigenous status, climate change, and access to markets on the probability of belonging to the different categories of households with diverse sustainable livelihoods. Our results provide evidence that increasing i…
Municipality socioeconomic characteristics and the probability of occurrence of Wildlife Management Units in Mexico
Analysis of the watershed social–ecological system trajectory in Copalita-Huatulco, Mexico
In watersheds, which function as social–ecological systems (SESs), hydrological ecosystem services (HESs) are crucial flows connecting natural and social components. The internal and external drivers that shape HESs and watershed SES trajectories create complexities in watershed management. In this study, the adaptive cycle framework was adopted, and a qualitative method is proposed to analyze the impacts of drivers on the HES and the watershed S…
An ecological–economic model for catchment management
Municipality socioeconomic characteristics and the probability of occurrence of Wildlife Management Units in Mexico
Environmental policies in the peri-urban area of Mexico City
Households’ Resilience to Hurricanes in Coastal Communities of Oaxaca, Mexico
Hurricanes represent a common threat to coastal communities, affecting livelihood strategies and assets. Households are resilient if they can recover from a stress or shock while maintaining and arranging assets to secure a sustainable livelihood. The objective of this research is to measure the degree of resilience in the coastal households of Oaxaca, Mexico, following a hurricane using the asset approach and describing diversity, connectivity, …
Determinants of livelihood diversification
Non-timber forest product importance for rural household well-being in four coastal communities in Oaxaca, Mexico
Rural household livelihoods usually depend on the use of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) as a strategy for income diversification and survival. Thus, this research seeks to determine the role played by NTFPs at the household level. A survey was conducted with 212 households in four localities with a high degree of marginalization, located on the South Pacific coast of Mexico in Oaxaca State. The results show that, firstly, NTFPs are used by al…
Vulnerability, family assets, and income-generating strategies of households in rural Mexico
This study is a first step in analyzing, on a national scale in Mexico, the assets, income and vulnerability context of households in rural communities. A multinomial logit model was used to show the impact of family labor, education, indigenous status, climate change, and access to markets on the probability of belonging to the different categories of households with diverse sustainable livelihoods. Our results provide evidence that increasing i…
Analytical framework for assessing the social-ecological system trajectory considering the resilience-vulnerability dynamic interaction in the context of disasters
Household’s Allocation of Payment for Ecosystem Services in “La Antigua” Watershed, Veracruz, México
Payment for ecosystem services (PES) is an environmental policy looking to improve ecosystem conservation and well-being. Assets have been used to evaluate socioeconomic outcomes of the program; however, the allocation of PES at a household level and its explaining variables have not been addressed. Thus, the aim of this article is to study the allocation of PES in nondurable and durable goods and the determinants of this household decision. Resu…
The role of situated knowledge and values in reshaping payment for hydrological services programs in Veracruz, Mexico
Public policy instruments coherence analysis to address coastal risk in Yucatan, Mexico
Coastal risk is a condition increased by climate change and oceanic changes. Its governance involves diverse areas of public policy and government levels that, in the best-case scenario, would act in a coordinated manner and with a focus that favors local government leadership. This manuscript analyzes the coherence of diverse public policies related to coastal risk in three communities in Mexico to demonstrate a challenge of local climate govern…
Diversification determinants, spatial heterogeneity and scenarios for small producers in Mexico
Diversification is a strategy adopted by households for their survival and resilience in the face of change. Capital assets have been shown to be determinants of diversification, but studies showing its spatial heterogeneity are scarce. Thus, this article aims to answer: How significant are household capital assets and connectivity in explaining diversification? and how does diversification vary spatially? The results for landowners in Oaxaca, Me…
The historical trajectory of a coffee agri-food system
Agri-food social-ecological systems (AFSES) embrace complex interactions and processes of food production, processing, and commercialization that are subject to constant changes. This study develops a heuristic approach using the adaptive cycle (AC) and a transformation potential measure to identify the historical trajectory of a coffee AFSES at a watershed scale in Copalita, Mexico, over 40 years from 1980 to 2020. Primary information was collec…
Analysis of the watershed social–ecological system trajectory in Copalita-Huatulco, Mexico
In watersheds, which function as social–ecological systems (SESs), hydrological ecosystem services (HESs) are crucial flows connecting natural and social components. The internal and external drivers that shape HESs and watershed SES trajectories create complexities in watershed management. In this study, the adaptive cycle framework was adopted, and a qualitative method is proposed to analyze the impacts of drivers on the HES and the watershed S…
Looking back to shape the future
Climate change resilience of tourism enterprises on the Yucatán coast, Mexico
Coastal tourism enterprises are constantly at risk due to increasing climate change (CC) events and effects. Thus, understanding tourism enterprise resilience against climate change (RACC) is relevant. It is defined as the capacities of the enterprise to sustain its activity and detect innovation for transformation measured in terms of risk perception, positive perception for learning, planning, adapting and transforming in the face of changes in…
Whale watching choice experiment to assess boat crowding and whale abundance on tourist willingness to pay in Mexico
Tourism enterprises capacities to face coastal exposure in Yucatán coast of Mexico
The coastal tourism sector is highly exposed to the effects of climate change (CC). The aim of the study was to analyze the relationship between exposure to CC and the level of capital assets (CA) in tourism enterprises in Yucatán coast. CA represents capacities' tourism enterprises have to confront exposure to CC. Analyzing the relationship between exposure and enterprises' capacities in a spatial manner is important, and this topic has hardly b…
Assessing livelihood resilience over time in two rural coastal communities in Mexico
Rural livelihoods are threatened by disturbances that reduce household resilience. While capital assets, learning capacities, self-reliance, diversity, and connectivity enhance resilience, these indicators have not yet been fully operationalized or tested empirically over time at the household level. This study develops a livelihood resilience index that measures changes in these capacities across two rural case studies over 2013 and 2016. Result…
Geography (14 works) · Economics (11 works) · Environmental resource management (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Ecology (10 works) · Psychological resilience (9 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (7 works) · Economic and Environmental Valuation (6 works) · Ecosystem services (6 works) · Agriculture (5 works)