The research reveals the main conceptualizations regarding the risks that cause vulnerability, arising from climate variability in Ecuador. The study summarized the main factors that converge on the perception of vulnerability and adaptation to climate change affecting the population. A structured survey was applied that measured the perception of vulnerability to climate variability and socionatural threats to 105 household managers, through a simple random probability sampling. The determinants of vulnerability were obtained as a result through multiple correlations of Spearman's Rho, determining the significant extent of the major risks that would affect the vulnerability of the population under study. Water and soil pollution, rise and increase of poverty, confirmation of plagues as an effect of climate change and climate variability determine the main risk factors of vulnerability.
Camacho, AP; Ilijama, MV; Aroca, GB; Betancourt, EG
Perception of social vulnerability to the climate variability of the population of the microbasin of the Chazo Juan River, Ecuador
Revista Geografica Venezolana