Cambio climático y riesgos climáticos en España
ISSN: 0213-4691, 1989-9890
Year of publication: 2009
Issue: 49
Pages: 197-220
Type: Article
More publications in: Investigaciones Geográficas (España)
Abstract
Spain is territory of risk. The variety of natural hazards, specially climatic ones, which can affect it joined to high degree of human occupation in some of his regions, turn Spanish territory in geographical space with raised natural risk in the set of Europe. Natural risk has turned into a territorial problem that affects already regularly raised up to Spanish society and economy. And climatic change models present a slightly encouraging panorama for next decades of the present century, since affect in the deepening of the extreme character of our climatic conditions, specially in Mediterranean regions and in the south of Iberian peninsula.