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Article

Nature’s Contributions to People in Vulnerability Studies When Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Coastal Landscapes

by
Areli Nájera González
1,*,
Fátima Maciel Carrillo González
1,
Oyolsi Nájera González
2,
Rosa María Chávez-Dagostino
1,
Susana Marceleño Flores
2,
Eréndira Canales-Gómez
3 and
Jorge Téllez López
3
1
Centro Universitario de la Costa, Universidad de Guadalajara, Puerto Vallarta 48280, Mexico
2
Cuerpo Académico Recursos Naturales, Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit, Tepic 63000, Mexico
3
Laboratorio de Ecología, Paisaje y Sociedad, Centro Universitario de la Costa, Universidad de Guadalajara, Puerto Vallarta 48280, Mexico
*
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Sustainability 2022, 14(7), 4200; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14074200
Submission received: 30 January 2022 / Revised: 11 March 2022 / Accepted: 25 March 2022 / Published: 1 April 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Sea and Land Use and Regional Planning of Coastal Ecosystems)
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Abstract

The geographic landscape is a recurrent unit of analysis in vulnerability studies. Single descriptions are often used to show the elements exposed in these landscapes. However, the concept requires specifying the components of the landscape and its functioning as a unit. Thus, the purpose of this research was to use the analysis of Nature’s Contributions to People (NCP) to describe the global contribution of landscape elements to human activities, prioritizing the units in which the effects of climate change may imply greater impacts on the human population. For this, we analyzed six categories of nature’s contributions applied to the landscape units in a fragment of the Mexican Pacific coast. The units with mangrove cover had the highest nature contributions. It is expected that the application of this approach in the exposure component of vulnerability studies will allow a better understanding of the non-return relationship and the search for adaptive nature-based solutions.
Keywords: ecosystem services; regionalization; ecological units; coastal plain; Mexican Pacific ecosystem services; regionalization; ecological units; coastal plain; Mexican Pacific
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Nájera González, A.; Carrillo González, F.M.; Nájera González, O.; Chávez-Dagostino, R.M.; Marceleño Flores, S.; Canales-Gómez, E.; Téllez López, J. Nature’s Contributions to People in Vulnerability Studies When Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Coastal Landscapes. Sustainability 2022, 14, 4200. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14074200

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Nájera González A, Carrillo González FM, Nájera González O, Chávez-Dagostino RM, Marceleño Flores S, Canales-Gómez E, Téllez López J. Nature’s Contributions to People in Vulnerability Studies When Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Coastal Landscapes. Sustainability. 2022; 14(7):4200. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14074200

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Nájera González, Areli, Fátima Maciel Carrillo González, Oyolsi Nájera González, Rosa María Chávez-Dagostino, Susana Marceleño Flores, Eréndira Canales-Gómez, and Jorge Téllez López. 2022. "Nature’s Contributions to People in Vulnerability Studies When Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Coastal Landscapes" Sustainability 14, no. 7: 4200. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14074200

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Nájera González, A., Carrillo González, F. M., Nájera González, O., Chávez-Dagostino, R. M., Marceleño Flores, S., Canales-Gómez, E., & Téllez López, J. (2022). Nature’s Contributions to People in Vulnerability Studies When Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Coastal Landscapes. Sustainability, 14(7), 4200. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14074200

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