Nature’s Contributions to People in Vulnerability Studies When Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Coastal Landscapes

Areli Nájera González, Fátima Maciel Carrillo González, Oyolsi Nájera González, Rosa María Chávez-Dagostino, Susana Marceleño Flores, Eréndira Canales-Gómez and Jorge Téllez López
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Areli Nájera González: Centro Universitario de la Costa, Universidad de Guadalajara, Puerto Vallarta 48280, Mexico
Fátima Maciel Carrillo González: Centro Universitario de la Costa, Universidad de Guadalajara, Puerto Vallarta 48280, Mexico
Oyolsi Nájera González: Cuerpo Académico Recursos Naturales, Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit, Tepic 63000, Mexico
Rosa María Chávez-Dagostino: Centro Universitario de la Costa, Universidad de Guadalajara, Puerto Vallarta 48280, Mexico
Susana Marceleño Flores: Cuerpo Académico Recursos Naturales, Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit, Tepic 63000, Mexico
Eréndira Canales-Gómez: Laboratorio de Ecología, Paisaje y Sociedad, Centro Universitario de la Costa, Universidad de Guadalajara, Puerto Vallarta 48280, Mexico
Jorge Téllez López: Laboratorio de Ecología, Paisaje y Sociedad, Centro Universitario de la Costa, Universidad de Guadalajara, Puerto Vallarta 48280, Mexico

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 7, 1-21

Abstract: The geographic landscape is a recurrent unit of analysis in vulnerability studies. Single descriptions are often used to show the elements exposed in these landscapes. However, the concept requires specifying the components of the landscape and its functioning as a unit. Thus, the purpose of this research was to use the analysis of Nature’s Contributions to People (NCP) to describe the global contribution of landscape elements to human activities, prioritizing the units in which the effects of climate change may imply greater impacts on the human population. For this, we analyzed six categories of nature’s contributions applied to the landscape units in a fragment of the Mexican Pacific coast. The units with mangrove cover had the highest nature contributions. It is expected that the application of this approach in the exposure component of vulnerability studies will allow a better understanding of the non-return relationship and the search for adaptive nature-based solutions.

Keywords: ecosystem services; regionalization; ecological units; coastal plain; Mexican Pacific (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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