Gestión colaborativa para disminuir el riesgo de inundación en el municipio de Puebla

Abstract

In the city of Puebla, illegal urban growth in floodplains has exceeded the capacity of local governance since, despite the existence of 17.585 homes at risk of flooding, there are still no clear formal mechanisms of preventive actions. The collaboration between the public and social sectors to prevent that risk is a crucial step that we are trying to implement in Micro basin Clavijero, City of Puebla, where the University has acquired a role as informer and mediator between both actors. Our aim is to show the importance of risk prevention through collaboration between actors, the difficulties to build a management process of this kind, as well as our progress in a context marked by a technocratic vision with strong financial, legal and organizational limits.