A5024918746- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Water resources management and optimization
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Water Resource Management and Quality
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- American Environmental and Regional History
- Housing Market and Economics
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Climate Change and Environmental Impact
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Public Health Policies and Education
- Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration
- Natural Resources and Economic Development
- Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
University of Arizona
2012-2023
The spatial and human dimensions of climate change are brought into relief at international borders where poses particular challenges. This article explores "double exposure" to climatic globalization processes for the U.S.–Mexico border region, rapid urbanization, industrialization, agricultural intensification result in vulnerability water scarcity as primary concern. For portions western within North American monsoon regime, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projects temperature...
Societal use of freshwater, ecosystems' dependence on water, and hydroclimatic processes interact dynamically. Changes in any these subsystems can cause unpredictable feedback, resulting water insecurity for humans ecosystems. By drawing resilience theory, we extend current productive–destructive framings security to better address societal–ecosystem–hydroclimatic (SEH) interactions, dynamics, uncertainties that drive but also offer response opportunities. Strengthening this sense requires...
In the western US–Mexico border region, both countries’ authorities look to desalination as a means meet increased demands for dwindling supplies. addition several existing or planned plants, plans exist develop projects along Mexico’s coasts convert seawater into freshwater primarily conveyance and consumption in United States. Even though systems have potential increase water supply there are associated consequences, costs constraints. To understand impacts of such binational systems, this...
Abstract This article presents ongoing efforts to understand interactions between the North American monsoon and society in order develop applications for research a highly complex, multicultural, binational region. The is an annual precipitation regime that begins early June Mexico progresses northward southwestern United States. region includes stakeholders large urban complexes, productive agricultural areas, sparsely populated arid semiarid ecosystems. political, cultural, socioeconomic...
Since the adoption of dramatic national water policy reforms in 1992, Mexico's governance paradigm has had time to mature.This article analyzes experience with transition, based on research irrigation districts and river basin councils northwestern state Sonora.I examine trajectory transition using sciences framework set forth introductory article.The argues that a "new culture water" focused three principles efficiency, decentralization, sustainability only minimally fulfilled its goal...
Click to increase image sizeClick decrease size Notes 1. Austria P. Martinez and van Hofwegen, eds., Synthesis of the 4th World Water Forum (Mexico City: Comisión Nacional de Agua, 2006), 24. 2. UNICEF, Water, Sanitation Hygiene (NY: 2010). 3. For example, some First Nations reserves have been on water advisories for nearly a decade, with recent statistics reporting that more than one hundred are advisories. Health Canada, Nations, Inuit, Aboriginal Health, Drinking Waste (2011), at...
This article examines the "climate gap" in Southwest US (Arizona and New Mexico), referring to "disproportionate unequal implications of climate change mitigation" for "people color poor" [Shonkoff, S.B., et al., 2011. The gap: environmental health equity mitigation policies California. Climatic Change, 109 (Suppl. 1), S485–S503]. poverty relationship is examined using multi-scaled analysis across three indicators vulnerability, focusing on connections health, food, energy during period...
Addressing wicked problems challenging water security requires participation from multiple stakeholders, often with conflicting visions, complicating the attainment of water-security goals and heightening need for integrative effective science-policy interfaces. Sustained multi-stakeholder dialogues within networks can improve adaptive governance system resilience. This paper describes what we define as "dialogic networks," or interactions -- both in structural procedural terms between...
Manufactured housing (MH) communities have emerged as a high-profile and lucrative asset class. Despite this, it is costly or impossible to get loans buy homes in most mobile home parks. This article explores this ostensible contradiction—that whereas MH parks are desirable liquid assets, the individual that compose them not. We explore implications of contradiction for justice well financial environmental vulnerability. argue marginality U.S. markets rooted privileging real property above...
New public–private desalination projects along the Mexico–United States boundary have potential to strengthen water security in this arid region. International bulk commerce region is unprecedented and constrained by existing international agreements regulations. This problem examined from a multilevel governance perspective, focusing on two with near-term export Rosarito, Baja California, Puerto Peñasco, Sonora. These add array of agencies procedures binational management but will not...