Título

Socio-Ecological Regionalization of the Urban Sub-Basins in Mexic

Autor

MONICA CERVANTES JIMENEZ

CARLOS DIAZ DELGADO

CARLOS ALBERTO MASTACHI LOZA

MIGUEL ANGEL GOMEZ ALBORES

ENRIQUE GONZALEZ SOSA

Nivel de Acceso

Acceso Abierto

Licencia

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Materias

IWRM - ([2073-4441]) socio-ecological systems - ([2073-4441]) cluster analysis - ([2073-4441]) k-medoids - ([2073-4441]) PCA - ([2073-4441]) CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA - (CTI)

Resumen o descripción

Mexico is a diverse country in terms of culture and natural environments. For this reason, the delimitation of homogeneous basins with similar environmental, social, and economic attributes is important in order to facilitate the elaboration of high-impact regional development strategies. However, this represents an ongoing challenge due to the complexity of the interactions that occur within socio-ecological systems at a regional scale. In the present study, the main objective was to identify the interrelationships among different aspects of the socio-ecological system located within basins, with the goal of utilizing this information to promote the region-specific sustainable development of an Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). Therefore, in this study, environmental, social, economic, and institutional variables, relevant to water management and with thecapacitytobeexpressedspatially,wereutilizedtoidentifyregionswithsimilarcharacteristicsand to regionalize the urban sub-basins of Mexico based on a principal component analysis (PCA) and the k-medoids clustering algorithm. The identification of the most adequate number of regions at the national level was determined by the silhouette method. As a result, five distinct regions for Mexico were generated, which forms the first step in the design of integrated water resources management strategies for these regions.

Universidad Autónoma del Estado de MéxicoConsejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT-México)

Editor

MDPI

Fecha de publicación

2 de enero de 2017

Tipo de publicación

Artículo

Recurso de información

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11799/65281

Fuente

2073-4441

Idioma

Inglés

Relación

Water;9

Audiencia

Estudiantes

Investigadores

Repositorio Orígen

REPOSITORIO INSTITUCIONAL DE LA UAEM

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