Urban Settlements and Climate Change Impacts in Colombia

Since the majority of the population lives in the highlands and over the Caribbean coast, where water scarcity, environmental disasters and the environmental transformation of the ecosystems are already pressing issues, Colombia’s urban system is an interesting case for other countries due to the fact that similar problems manifest themselves across very diverse human and physical geographies. This combination has significant impacts on food security and human health, and is a good approximation of the types of challenges urban settlements and their local administrations will have to ikely face in the next future.