Diagnóstico del crecimiento urbano para la planificación ambiental de villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico

Urban growth of the city of Villahermosa, Tabasco, México, since the 19th, 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries has given priority to peri-urbanization and to the establishment of oil infrastructure that alters the soil and the superficial drainage, leaving out ecosystem conservation. The estimations and projections show that if the change in land use continues in the next two decades, the last conserved ecosystems will be lost, increasing the vulnerability in face of natural disasters like flooding. A diagnosis was made by analyzing historical, social and economic information; cartographic and statistical; as well as environmental and geographic, which contributed useful information to update environmental planning that facilitates a sustainable urban expansion and conservation of the last natural spaces.