Abstract

GUZMAN NOH, Gertrudis  and  RODRIGUEZ ESTEVES, Juan Manuel. Elementos de la vulnerabilidad ante huracanes. Impacto del huracán Isidoro en Chabihau, Yobain, Yucatán. Polít. cult. [online]. 2016, n.45, pp.183-210. ISSN 0188-7742.

The vulnerability of rural communities as Chabihau, in the municipality of Yobain, Yucatan, is associated to relationship between society and nature, where man creates hazardous conditions in managing their environment and resources relationship. Through the relationship between society and nature, man creates hazardous conditions when land management are not considered the influence of certain natural phenomena, particularly intense. From the moment in which a social group sits in a given environment, it is modified through cultural practices that serve adaptation and, in some cases, conditions of vulnerability that have developed over time are set. From the moment in which a social group sits in a given environment, this is modified, which promotes cultural practices that serve to adapt to their environment and at the same time, conditions of vulnerability that have developed over time. The process of settlement on the coast of Yucatan has set scenarios vulnerability to hurricanes due to environmental degradation of the coast, for example, erosion, pollution of the marsh and destruction of mangrove areas.

Keywords : vulnerability; rural community; relation society nature; hurricane; Chabihau.

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