%0 Journal Article 
%A Cruz Benítez, Enriqueta del Carmen
%A Rivera Arriaga, Evelia
%A Williams Beck, Lorraine A.
%A Posada Vanegas, Gregorio
%A Ramos Miranda, Julia
%A Agraz Hernández, Claudia M.
%A Peña Puch, Angelina del C.
%T Improving Coastal Urban Flood Risk Management in San Francisco de Campeche, México

%D 2025
%@ 2304-0963
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10498/38118
%X The aim of this paper is to address people’s perception
and conduct facing related climate change effects, and
how these will improve education, sensibilization, decision-making, and resilience in coastal zones. As a coastal
city, San Francisco de Campeche, México (SFC) is innately vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Given this
problem, life experiences, opinions, needs and proposal
data collections provide a social diagnosis about how people perceive and act, when faced with climate adverse consequences, to enhance their resilience capacity. Our methodological approach used qualitative and quantitative
methods to better understand people, the social systems’
nature, and how those integrating factors play key roles
in and have decisive influences over constantly changing
quotidian life ways to transform those data into public
policies and strategies that link environmental changes with social adaptation actions through applying 113 interviews. We also identified the floodable zones of SFC using
literature and maps and a field guideline to describe each zone. Derived from those natural and cultural figures information we designed SFC’s Action Climate Program (ACP). This agenda directly addresses “Climate Action” sustainable
development’s objective 13, target 3, by offering environmental education strategies and community collaboration and
participation for design public policies and decision-making processes for coastal management resilience. We conclude
that correctly implementing this program will improve people’s capacity to respond and adapt to climate change effects.
Moreover, active participation in decision making processes offers a second corollary to empower people to reduce risks
that resolve nagging socio environmental issues in their coastal communities.
%K Climate change
%K floods
%K adaptation
%K risk management
%K sustainable development objectives
%~ Universidad de Cádiz