- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Culinary Culture and Tourism
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Agriculture
- Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
University of Arizona
2016-2025
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...
Abstract This paper addresses how food systems and transboundary supply chains are mediated shaped by (cross‐) cultural geopolitical borders that function as selective filters. We focus on the ways in which political boundary a formerly cohesive foodshed generates “edge effects” affect (1) safety, (2) waste, particularly desert communities adjacent to U.S.–Mexico border. hypothesize these various lines get “out of register” with one another, their dissonance creates both unexpected impacts...
Food projects have become an increasingly popular engine for economic development and branding efforts to promote “creative cities” in the neoliberal context (Joassart-Marcelli & Bosco, 2017). However, proponents of food-based development often overlook uneven impacts such neglect underlying structural, social, environmental issues. University researchers can play a key role raising awareness about these issues, inform food policy needs, create university-community partnerships that...