Poverty in Mexico: Vulnerability factor for face the effects of climate change

Abstract

Poverty levels that occur in Mexico are a problem that is becoming increasingly acute in the different territorial levels. The shortage of financial resources for access to goods, services and cultural factor, constitute the main constraint to access an adequate standard of living, which provide comprehensive security conditions in the population. This condition is a determining factor in the inability to deal with the various hydrometeorological and geological phenomena that occur as part of climatic changes in the Earth system, a situation that undermines the population living in poverty to suffer the ravages in all dimensions: physical, economic and social. Climate change, seen as a process that has been more acute due to human activity in the different territorial levels weakens the ability of response and prevention of disasters caused by it, not just vulnerable groups, rather, intervention government agencies, leading to moments of political, economic and social instability in the different action levels (local, state and national).

Rev. iberoam. bioecon. cambio clim. Vol. 1 num 2, 2015, pág. 1-19