Asentamientos informales, inundaciones y vulnerabilidad físico-espacial de la vivienda y el entorno inmediato: Caso de estudio Arroyo La Esmeralda en el Distrito de Barranquilla, Colombia

Abstract

This article presents a methodological approach to identify variables of vulnerability analysis, from the spatial-physical dimension, and to allow a better understanding of the state in the Southwestern sector of the Barranquilla District, as a contribution to the incorporated methodology for the POT (ZonningPlan). Many of the characteristics of the place that physical-spatial conditions and contribute to social vulnerability were not included in this, therefore, less is known about their behavior in a non-homogeneous sector of informal origin. The operationalization of the vulnerability concept identifies variables and housingcharacteristicsand the environment provided that induce a description from the micro-scale, linked to the practices of living and the form of appropriation Inherent in the place.