A5041474510- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Water resources management and optimization
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
- Noise Effects and Management
- Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Groundwater flow and contamination studies
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Risk Perception and Management
University of Arizona
2016-2025
Center For Policy Research
2021
Green infrastructure (GI) has been identified as a promising approach to help cities adapt climate change through the provision of multiple ecosystem services. However, GI contributions urban resilience will not be realized until it is more fully mainstreamed in built environment and design professions. Here, we interrogate five key challenges for effective implementation GI: (1) standards; (2) regulatory pathways; (3) socio-economic considerations; (4) financeability; (5) innovation....
After briefly reviewing key resilience engineering perspectives and summarising some green infrastructure (GI) tools, we present the contributions that GI can make to enhancing urban maintaining critical system functionality across complex integrated social–ecological technical systems. We then examine five challenges for effective implementation of include (1) standards; (2) regulation; (3) socio-economic factors; (4) financeability; (5) innovation. highlight ways in which these are being...
Research from multiple domains has provided insights into how neighborhood design can be improved to have a more favorable effect on physical activity, concept known as walkability. The relevant research findings/hypotheses been integrated Walkability Framework, which organizes the elements nine walkability categories. purpose of this study was test whether conceptual framework used model measure interactions between built environment and activity. We explored correlations categories...
Neighborhood design affects lifestyle physical activity, and ultimately human wellbeing. There are, however, a limited number of studies that examine neighborhood types. In this research, we four types designs: traditional development, suburban enclosed community, cluster housing assess their level walkability effects on activity We significant associations through questionnaire (n = 486) distributed in Tucson, Arizona using the Walkability Model. Among tested types, development showed...
Groundwater is a critical drinking water source in arid regions globally, where reliance on groundwater highest. However, disparities availability, access, and quality pose challenges to security. This case study employs geostatistical tools, multivariate regression, clustering analysis examine the intersection of level changes (availability), socioeconomic regulatory factors (access), nitrate arsenic contamination (quality) across 1881 groundwater-supplied service areas Arizona....
(2021). Agency and governance in green infrastructure policy adoption change. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning: Vol. 23, The Multifaceted Geographies Green Infrastructure socio-environmental dreams, nightmares, amnesia, pp. 599-615.
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...
Greenspace can alleviate many of the negative effects urbanization and help enhance human well-being yet, in most cities world, greenspace is inequitably distributed. In western societies, wealthy white neighborhoods typically have more access to greenspace, constituting an environmental social justice issue. Although scholars from multiple disciplines academic domains study questions scholarship remains fragmented. The purpose this qualitative review explore diverse disciplinary approaches...
The crucial role of groundwater and the centrality water governance in accommodating growing demands sustainably are becoming well recognized. We review 10 case studies governance—representing diverse global regions local contexts—from perspective four well-established elements: (1) institutional setting; (2) availability access to information science; (3) robustness civil society; (4) economic regulatory frameworks. For setting, we find that governing is often a thankless task paradoxically...
Prevailing city design in many countries has created sedentary societies that depend on automobile use. Consequently, architects, urban designers, and land planners have developed new theories, which been incorporated into the Leadership Energy Environmental Design for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) certification system. The LEED-ND includes elements improve human well-being by facilitating walking biking, a concept known as walkability. Despite these positive developments, relevant...
Climate change is posing emerging threats to people and the environment, particularly in arid regions. However, some groups are more vulnerable than others, depending on their levels of exposure, sensitivity adaptive capacity, which determined by climatic non-climatic factors. In water-scarce environments, water policies become key factors that affect vulnerability yet enable modifications if impacts unintentionally exacerbate vulnerability. Therefore, it necessary analyze vulnerability, for...
Achieving water security for humans and ecosystems is a pervasive challenge globally. Extensive areas of the Americas are at significant risk insecurity, resulting from global-change processes coupled with regional local impacts. Drought, flooding, quality challenges pose threats, while same time, rapid urban expansion, competing demands, river modifications, expanding global markets water-intensive agricultural products drive insecurity. This paper takes social-ecological systems...
Groundwater is a vital drinking water source, especially in arid regions, sustaining both urban and rural populations. Its quality influenced by natural (hydrogeological) human-driven (demographic, policy) factors, which may pose significant public health risks, for communities relying on unregulated supplies. This study addresses critical gaps examining groundwater vulnerability contamination disparities, emphasizing their implications equitable resource management. It analyzes the impact...
Innovation in urban water systems is required to address drivers of change across natural, built, and social systems, including climate change, economic development, aged infrastructure. Water are complex socio-technical that interact with biophysical supply reclaim water. We present a vision for enhancing system resilience through net zero (NZUW) approach, which meets the needs given community locally available sustainable supply, without detriment interconnected or long-term supply. NZUW...
Climate change, population growth, and declining federal budgets are threatening the health of ecosystems, services they provide. Under these changing conditions, managing landscapes resources assumes new unprecedented challenges. Adaptive management has been identified as a natural resource approach that allows practitioners to incorporate change uncertainty into decision-making through an iterative process involves long-term monitoring continued review adjustment actions. However, success...