Abstract
This article aims to briefly review the socio-economic impact caused by the flooding of Lake Enriquillo on the inhabitants of Boca Cachón due to the complex local phenomenon related to climate variability. Between 2003 and 2014, Boca de Cachón and the communities surrounding Lake Enriquillo were deeply affected by flooding of the Lake’s rising waters. Lake Enriquillo is the largest wetland in the Caribbean and the first designated RAMSAR site. In turn, Boca de Cachón could be considered the first human settlement formally displaced because of climate variability in the Dominican Republic and probably one of the first in the Americas in the twenty-first century. Boca de Cachón is a rural Municipal District located to the northwest of the municipality of Jimaní, with a population of around 3000 inhabitants on the southwest border with the Republic of Haiti and located in the Biosphere Reserve Jaragua-Bahoruco-Enriquillo. Given the future climatic scenarios for the Dominican Republic and the possible climate change that could exacerbate by excess or, by default, the socio-environmental problems in the Lake’s belt, it is necessary to support the communities in their capacity-building processes. The lessons learned from Boca de Cachón can serve as a learning space for adaptation processes in rural environments in the Caribbean region.
Highlights
This article aims to review the case of Boca de Cachón, from a literature perspective, considering the point of view of the socio-economic impact caused by the flooding ofLake Enriquillo on its inhabitants
This ideographic approach, it is part of incipient research on local dynamics of social adaptation to climate change in the Enriquillo region, was insufficient by itself, which is why and without trying to approach it for nomothetic purposes, as building a more heuristic and explicative background [14], it was amplified and enriched by the literature review and by defining an analytical framework based on a complexity approach, which rests on four elements highlighted
Despite the remarkable advances in terms of economic growth of the Dominican Republic (DR) and lesser impact but positive results in terms of poverty reduction and social inclusion [20], such advances have been seen to a lesser extent in the southwest of the country [21] and in the Enriquillo region where the Biosphere reserve that hosts the Boca de Cachón is located
Summary
This article aims to review the case of Boca de Cachón, from a literature perspective, considering the point of view of the socio-economic impact caused by the flooding ofLake Enriquillo on its inhabitants. Boca de Cachón is a rural community located in the southwest of the Dominican Republic, in the heart of the Bahoruco-Jaragua-Enriquillo. Enriquillo in both sides of the island [3].
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