Manejo integral de la Cuenca del Río Yautepec en Morelos

Abstract

This chapter analyzes and proposes alternatives for overcoming the dual environmental and social vulnerability in the Yautepec River Basin (YRB), due to climate variability, population growth, deforestation, land use change, erosion in the upper basin, sedimentation in the floodplain, the invasions of walls, infrastructure, and houses in the riverbed, as well as organized crime. All these processes have created a complex emergency in the YRB. A participatory methodology explores how the affected population can build resilience in order to reduce this dual vulnerability. The three levels of government (local, state, federal), and the representatives of civil society conducted a project of a desirable future aiming at a transition to sustainability in the YRB. This task started with a diagnosis of existing problems including public insecurity, socio-economic deprivation, threats of disasters, and changing climate conditions.