Risk Atlas of Cozumel Island, Mexico

The atlas shows the potential natural hazard, which can cause at any time and any place on the island of Cozumel a disaster. Threats, whether natural or anthropogenic kind, will be analyzed and linked with social vulnerability, either on a building block level or on land parcels. The risk is fixed to certain phenomena, such as inundation, coastal erosion, extreme precipitation, storm surges and differential subsidence of the land. Dwellings in extreme poverty present households with major vulnerability. The main contribution of this study focuses on a compilation of a georeferenced database of hazards, risk situations and vulnerability mapping, which allow monitoring the threat and updating of the original database.