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Social vulnerability factors in the city of Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico

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  • Neftalí García Castro Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología
No. 53 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5370.2017.44625

Abstract

This paper reveals the socioeconomic vulnerability factors of Acapulco, Guerrero (Mexico). The social vulnerability is a state of human inability manifested collectively and whose genesis is multifactorial. The main objective of this paper is to expose social vulnerability as a neuralgic territorial characteristic to formulate prevention and mitigation criteria, and to assess the potential impact and the occurrence of events that generate adverse consequences. Therefore, conceptual foundations are used to describe and to identify the socio-territorial differences of this Mexican city. These were based on the average index value, which gave guidelines to evaluate the heterogeneous access to a set of assets and structure of opportunities that determine the levels of social vulnerability of the population. Based on this, it was found that most of the acapulqueños lack socioeconomic conditions to anticipate, resist or recover from critical situations.

Keywords:

social vulnerability, socioeconomic indicators, average index value

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García Castro, N. (2017). Social vulnerability factors in the city of Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico. Investigaciones Geográficas, (53), pp. 93–114. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5370.2017.44625
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