STRESS, RISK AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESILIENCE IN MEXICO

Abstract

This investigation has the aim identify the conducts resilient before the environmental catastrophes (flood) sharpened by the Change Climate Mundial in the center - south of Mexico. The study was realized in the zones of flood in the Morelos and Guerrero states in October 2013, as a result of the rains of the cyclones Ingrid and Manuel. To end to support the arguments of this report a study of case was carried out by means of a questionnaire structured, besides one quantitative analysis in which there were applied the scales of risk, stress and resilience to 600 persons. The polled ones, of a random simple way, are 17-year-old surviving individuals of the flood being a representative sample with a level of reliability of 95 % with a sample mistake of 4% of conformity with the formula ( ) . Pearson's correlation shows that an important relation exists between level of stress and the aptitude to modify the conduct to individual and community level differentiated by kind. On the other hand the results of the test T show that to major major stress skills resilience. One concludes that the aptitude to support an environmental catastrophe for flood in a subject will do that this one turns out to be strengthened on having overcome the crisis; this way the study of the persons who face these problems, in every season of rain will allow to identify as the populations they are creating strategies that help themselves superimpose to the catastrophe; likewise of prevention and management of the risk.