SOCIOECONOMIC VULNERABILITY, CLIMATE CHANGE AND INCREASE IN THE LEVEL OF THE SEA IN TUXPAN, VERACRUZ

Abstract

The objective of the research is to expose the socioeconomic impacts in Tuxpan, Veracruz, considering a sudden increase in sea level of five meters. The multidisciplinary methodology consisted of locating, territorially quantifying the vulnerable groups that are currently within the danger zone and the second consisted of qualifying, through fieldwork, the specificities of the same. the most pressing results were: the municipality of Tuxpan suffered a flood of five meters above sea level, 20% of its territory would be flooded, that is, 187 km² of its demarcation present a certain degree of socioeconomic vulnerability to sea level rise.