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Vulnerability Assessment to Climate Variability and Climate Change in Tijuana, Mexico
- Source :
- Sustainability, Volume 10, Issue 7, Sustainability, Vol 10, Iss 7, p 2352 (2018)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2018.
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Abstract
- This paper presents research results of a recent project creating an operational approach to assess vulnerability to climate variability and climate change in Tijuana, Mexico. Despite chronic flooding problems throughout the history of the city, local authorities and state authorities have given little attention to vulnerability to climate variability and climate change. This is the first assessment of vulnerability to flooding carried out in Tijuana. Research results show that over 10 percent of the total population in the city (over 153,000 inhabitants) lives in areas with high vulnerability to flooding, and an additional 18 percent (277,000 inhabitants) are in areas with what we classify as medium-high vulnerability. Results by census track identified specific areas and social groups in these categories, as well as the underlying drivers of vulnerability associated with the biophysical conditions of the landscape that have been modified by urban growth and through social processes (namely, deficiencies in local urban planning and its enforcement along with deficient social policies). Information and knowledge of vulnerability is a useful first step in the long process of creating climate adaptation and resilient pathways within the context of sustainable urban development.
- Subjects :
- climate variability
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Geography, Planning and Development
vulnerability
urban areas
low-income and middle-income countries
0211 other engineering and technologies
Vulnerability
Climate change
TJ807-830
Context (language use)
02 engineering and technology
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
TD194-195
01 natural sciences
Renewable energy sources
Social group
Vulnerability assessment
Urban planning
cities
GE1-350
Environmental planning
climate impacts
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Environmental effects of industries and plants
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Flooding (psychology)
021107 urban & regional planning
methodology
Census
indicators
Environmental sciences
Geography
climate change
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20711050
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Sustainability
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....aedc7bd6fd96ab79eb17e4cee5230ac6
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/su10072352