Clustering of Highly Vulnerable Mexican Municipalities to Develop Humanitarian Public Policies

The topic of Humanitarian Logistics (H.L.) is vital because it refers to the processes and systems involved in mobilizing people, resources, skills, and knowledge to help vulnerable people when some phenomenon negatively impacts them. For this intervention, it is necessary to have planning and coordination among the different actors involved in Humanitarian Aid. They need to know the risks and the vulnerabilities of the zone and the actors that could participate. The purpose of this paper is to provide a precise segmentation of the vulnerable zones and support the national strategic decisions at the time of planning, coordinate, and delivering humanitarian aid. Eleven statistical methods of clustering were used in order to suggest the k-clusters for the Mexican municipalities. The best number of clusters was selected through the analysis of 26 indexes. We took two vulnerability studies previously developed by other institutions. One study concluded that there are 319 vulnerable municipalities, and the other concluded 412 vulnerable municipalities. For this research, high and very highly vulnerable municipalities were considered, and the frequency of hydro-meteorological events impacted the zone. For instance, the proposed cluster was two or three, while two were four or two. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022.

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