Climate Change and Socioeconomic Vulnerability in the Port of Alvarado

Authors

  • Rodrigo Tovar Cabañas Universidad Autónoma Nuevo León.
  • Felipe Roboam Vázquez Palacios Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social
  • Shany Arely Vázquez Espinosa Universidad Veracruzana

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5377/ribcc.v2i4.5924

Keywords:

Sea Level, Sociocultural vulnerability, Economic Impact

Abstract

The importance of this work is that, increasingly, the uncertainty of climate change, coupled with the increase of disasters, has an impact on the endogenous development of coastal locations in Mexico and Latin America. So this essay, aims to: discuss the economic, social and cultural impacts that the port of Alvarado, Veracruz 453 can suffer, in case the sea level suddenly increases its level by 5 meters. Our main objective is to geographically target vulnerable groups that are currently within the danger zone. It should be noted that in the quantitative methodological treatment the use of micro-data was used, while the qualitative techniques applied during the fieldwork sought to give a balanced representation to our interdisciplinary approach. Among the most pressing results, if the municipality of Alvarado suffered a flood of five meters above sea level, 240 km2 would be flooded, which represents a value of more than 75 million dollars.

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Author Biographies

Rodrigo Tovar Cabañas, Universidad Autónoma Nuevo León.

Investigador, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León.

Felipe Roboam Vázquez Palacios, Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social

Investigador, Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social

Shany Arely Vázquez Espinosa, Universidad Veracruzana

Profesora, Universidad Veracruzana

Published

2016-12-30

How to Cite

Tovar Cabañas, R., Vázquez Palacios, F. R., & Vázquez Espinosa, S. A. (2016). Climate Change and Socioeconomic Vulnerability in the Port of Alvarado. Ibero-American JournalL of Bioeconomy and Climate Change E-ISSN 2410-7980, 2(4), 452–464. https://doi.org/10.5377/ribcc.v2i4.5924

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Research articles