TY - BOOK ID - 4864846 TI - Natural Disasters, Foreign Trade and Agriculture in Mexico : Public Policy for Reducing Economic Vulnerability PY - 2015 SN - 9783319173597 3319173588 9783319173580 3319173596 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Environment. KW - Climate Change. KW - Sustainable Development. KW - Agricultural Economics. KW - Environmental sciences. KW - Climatic changes. KW - Sustainable development. KW - Farm economics. KW - Sciences de l'environnement KW - Climat KW - Développement durable KW - Changements KW - Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Mexico. KW - Mexico -- Economic policy -- 1994-. KW - Natural disasters -- Law and legislation -- Mexico. KW - Earth & Environmental Sciences KW - Meteorology & Climatology KW - Agriculture KW - Natural disasters KW - Economic aspects KW - Law and legislation KW - Mexico KW - Economic policy KW - Natural calamities KW - Climate change. KW - Agricultural economics. KW - Disasters KW - Development, Sustainable KW - Ecologically sustainable development KW - Economic development, Sustainable KW - Economic sustainability KW - ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) KW - Smart growth KW - Sustainable development KW - Sustainable economic development KW - Economic development KW - Changes, Climatic KW - Changes in climate KW - Climate change KW - Climate change science KW - Climate changes KW - Climate variations KW - Climatic change KW - Climatic changes KW - Climatic fluctuations KW - Climatic variations KW - Global climate changes KW - Global climatic changes KW - Climatology KW - Climate change mitigation KW - Teleconnections (Climatology) KW - Agrarian question KW - Agribusiness KW - Agricultural economics KW - Agricultural production economics KW - Production economics, Agricultural KW - Land use, Rural KW - Environmental aspects KW - Global environmental change UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4864846 AB - This work responds to the increasing global need of measuring and analyzing impacts, vulnerabilities and coping capacity of countries, regions and communities regarding climate change, extreme weather conditions, natural disasters and institutional constraints. The case of Mexico, analyzed in this work, provides lessons for further developing countries to assess natural disasters vulnerability, for making informed adaptation decisions and to optimize resources for reducing country and community vulnerability. This book’s analyses contribute to the current debate of the long-term economic impact of natural disasters (hurricanes, earthquakes, etc.), as well as offer an integral methodology combining natural and social sciences for studies of country and community level vulnerability to climate change. The lessons derived from this analysis provide useful elements for the design and improvement of governmental policies concerning social and economic development as well. In addition, the desegregation of this analysis has the advantage of facilitating the design and evaluation of governmental projects at municipal, sub-national and national level, as well as provides conceptual-empirical elements for international cooperation in matters of disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, rural development and poverty reduction. ER -