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Vulnerability and Climate Change

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Water, Food and Welfare

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This chapter discusses the linkages and the implications of the potential presence of large-scale hydrometeorological events in Mexico and the relevance of the water footprint methodology to strengthen the institutional management capabilities that tend to mitigate the impacts on the welfare of the population at local levels.

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    Scenarios elaborated by the IPCC are a collection of models for the analysis of climatic implications under different combinations of economic growth, demographic dynamics, technological patterns, and specific energy sources. The scenarios are: A1–grouping the A1FI, A1T, A1B scenarios– , A2, B1, B2. These scenarios do not include conditions related to other climate initiatives such as those derived from the Framework Convention on Climate Change or the emissions standards associated with the Montreal Protocol (IPCC 2001).

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    The concept of latent vulnerability is used in the sense of underlying inflation in the economy. That is, a phenomenon that has not yet occurred but could be decisive in the amplification effects.

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    Although cluster analysis is purely descriptive, it is a useful statistical tool to define groups based on similarities, it comprises techniques that produce classifications or types from data that were not classified initially. The method implicates finding similarities between observations by measuring the metric distance between them. There are two methods: hierarchical and nonhierarchical. With the first one, data are grouped sequentially in a nested succession using the nearest neighbor method. In the nonhierarchical method, a set of seed points is selected depending on the number of selected clusters a priori and then build clusters around these points.

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    In cluster analysis there is no single solution as the choice depends largely on the researcher criterion and his/her theoretical framework. He/she faces a trade: as the average distance decreases, the number of clusters increases and vice versa.

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  1. C.P. 04960, Calzada Del Hueso 01100, Villa Quietud. Coyoacan, Mexico D.F

    Hilda R. Dávila-Ibáñez & Roberto M. Constantino-Toto

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  1. Institute of Economic Research, National Autonomous Univ of Mexico, Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico

    Rosario Pérez-Espejo

  2. Unidad Xochimilco, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico

    Roberto M. Constantino-Toto

  3. Unidad Xochimilco, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico

    Hilda R. Dávila-Ibáñez

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Dávila-Ibáñez, H.R., Constantino-Toto, R.M. (2016). Vulnerability and Climate Change. In: Pérez-Espejo, R., Constantino-Toto, R., Dávila-Ibáñez, H. (eds) Water, Food and Welfare. SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace, vol 23. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28824-6_12

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