Methodological proposal for the evaluation of the level of vulnerability to climate change in urban environments. Comuna 13, Bucaramanga, Santander

Abstract

Urban environments become the main scenarios of human life, where the greatest environmental transformations are presented to meet the needs and interests of the inhabitants. Their housing habits, transport methods, spaces of coexistence and consolidation of environmentally balanced environments are a permanent global need. Climate change has a high level of impact on the quality of urban life, therefore it is a global condition that must be managed, mitigated and adapted, so that living environments are consolidated sustainably. The research, in a first phase, analyzed information from two moments, one, theory and experiences of how climate change affects urban environments; two, how these climate change variables affect a specific urban scenario. In the second phase, the study defined Commune 13, Eastern Commune, in the city of Bucaramanga, where the information of phase one was verified, analyzing the level of threat, risk and vulnerability of this environment to climate change. In phase three, determined the levels of Vulnerability, intervention mechanisms are proposed in the commune, from the social, physical and environmental, to influence the urban environment, under conditions of mitigation and adaptation, that improve the conditions of the commune before climate change and potentialize the living conditions of its inhabitants and, by extension, the entire city.