P Romero-Lankao
Biographic Data
| ID | 27772 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Romero-Lankao |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Romero-Lankao |
| SIGNATURE | ROMERO-LANKAO P |
| AFFILIATIONS | NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9533-2363 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 229 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Embracing emergence: Reframing and Reimagining the Visionary Communities Project
Inequality and the future of electric mobility in 36 U.S. Cities: An innovative methodology and comparative assessment
Nexus disrupted: Lived realities and the water-energy-food nexus from an infrastructure perspective
In recent years, the water-energy-food nexus gained traction in science and policy debates to address the relationships between water, energy and food sectors. Inspired by Political Ecology thinking, we advocate for a nexus understanding that acknowledges the political nature of the concept and points to lived and experienced nexus realities. We draw on literature from heterogeneous infrastructures, giving attention to the socio-material entangle…
A data-driven mobility–energy typology framework for New York State
Exploring multidimensional aspects of differences in technology adoption, travel, and vehicle ownership across settlement types can help inform energy-efficient and affordable mobility system goals. At the same time, mapping key enablers, barriers, and risks for successfully meeting ambitious goals and targets (e.g. by geography, age, income, education, population density) offer important explanatory power as to context-specific challenges and op…
Risk Inequality and the Food-Energy-Water (FEW) Nexus: A Study of 43 City Adaptation Plans
Goals aimed at adapting to climate change in sustainable and just ways are embedded in global agreements such as the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda. However, largely unexamined, are the ways that narrative understandings conveyed in adaptation plans consider and attempt to address inequality in climate risk to urban populations and FEW-systems. In this paper, we examine whether and how adaptation plans from C40 member citi…
Extreme events and climate adaptation‐mitigation linkages: Understanding low‐carbon transitions in the era of global urbanization
It has become increasingly clear that cities will have to simultaneously undertake both adaptation and mitigation in response to accelerating climate change and the growing demands for meaningful climate action. Here we examine the connections between climate mitigation and climate adaptation, specifically, between low‐carbon energy systems and extreme events. The article specifically addresses the question, how do responses to extreme climate ri…
From risk to WEF security in the city: The influence of interdependent infrastructural systems
Conceptualizing urban water security in an urbanizing world
Exploring citizen infrastructure and environmental priorities in Mumbai, India
The Influence of Internal Migration on Exposure to Extreme Weather Events in Mexico
Between 2005 and 2010, 6.3 million migrants (approximately 6% of the population) moved domestically within Mexico. These shifts have potential implications for exposure to natural disasters. To examine this relationship, we use census microdata in conjunction with information on natural disaster events. The populations exposed to extreme weather events are first calculated based on observed disasters and demographic change between 2005 and 2010. …
Scale, urban risk and adaptation capacity in neighborhoods of Latin American cities
Science and institution building in urban climate-change policymaking
As cities develop climate-change policies, they are likely to engage with and produce new science and information. What influences the choices cities make about this engagement? Our aim is to understand the differences in the ways city governments structure their relationship to climate-change science and expertise, and the extent to which these choices reflect broader governance orientations towards climate change as a policy area. The climate-c…
Exploring urban transformations in Latin America
You say you want a revolution? Transforming education and capacity building in response to global change
Exploration of health risks related to air pollution and temperature in three Latin American cities
Adapte: A tale of diverse teams coming together to do issue-driven interdisciplinary research
Rethinking integrated assessments and management projects in the Americas
Urban vulnerability to temperature-related hazards: A meta-analysis and meta-knowledge approach
Cities in transition: Transforming urban centers from hotbeds of GHG emissions and vulnerability to seedbeds of sustainability and resilience
Conceptualizing urban vulnerability to global climate and environmental change
Latin American cities and climate change: Challenges and options to mitigation and adaptation responses
Missing the multiple dimensions of water? Neoliberal modernization in Mexico City and Buenos Aires
Private participation in the management of water and sanitation has been firmly promoted and concentrated in a handful of countries and their urban centers. Latin America became one of the main recipients of investment in infrastructure projects involving private participation. However, private participation has accomplished neither the scale nor the benefits anticipated by its promoters. Not only have water and sanitation received only a tiny pa…
Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability to global environmental change: Challenges and pathways for an action-oriented research agenda for middle-income and low-income countries
Water in Mexico City: What will climate change bring to its history of water-related hazards and vulnerabilities
This paper describes the risks that Mexico City faces from flooding and water scarcity, how these risks developed over time and how climate change will affect them. It begins by discussing the climatic and hydrological conditions that explain the abundance of water resources and the droughts and floods that have affected the city and its surrounds for centuries. It then presents the water-relevant implications of climate change for the city and c…
Testing Theories to Explore the Drivers of Cities' Atmospheric Emissions
Despite a growing body of evidence demonstrating the importance of cities as sources of many local, regional, and global impacts on the atmosphere, ecosystems, and human populations, most theories on the relationship between society and the environment have focused on the global or national level. A variety of theories exist on human-environment interactions; for example, ecological modernization, urban transitions, and human ecology. However, wi…
Paradoxes of Decentralization: Water Reform and Social Implications in Mexico
Water in Mexico City: What will climate change bring to its history of water-related hazards and vulnerabilities
This paper describes the risks that Mexico City faces from flooding and water scarcity, how these risks developed over time and how climate change will affect them. It begins by discussing the climatic and hydrological conditions that explain the abundance of water resources and the droughts and floods that have affected the city and its surrounds for centuries. It then presents the water-relevant implications of climate change for the city and c…
Exploration of health risks related to air pollution and temperature in three Latin American cities
You say you want a revolution? Transforming education and capacity building in response to global change
Conceptualizing urban vulnerability to global climate and environmental change
Urban vulnerability to temperature-related hazards: A meta-analysis and meta-knowledge approach
Are we missing the point: Particularities of urbanization, sustainability and carbon emissions in Latin American cities
The discourse on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in cities is dominated by ecological modernization theory, which focuses primarily on technological approaches supported by market mechanisms to curb carbon emissions. This discourse has contributed to a research and management agenda. Yet this is based primarily on perceptions and precedents drawn from high-income nations. This paper draws on empirical evidence from Latin American cities fo…
Nexus disrupted: Lived realities and the water-energy-food nexus from an infrastructure perspective
In recent years, the water-energy-food nexus gained traction in science and policy debates to address the relationships between water, energy and food sectors. Inspired by Political Ecology thinking, we advocate for a nexus understanding that acknowledges the political nature of the concept and points to lived and experienced nexus realities. We draw on literature from heterogeneous infrastructures, giving attention to the socio-material entangle…
Scale, urban risk and adaptation capacity in neighborhoods of Latin American cities
Cities in transition: Transforming urban centers from hotbeds of GHG emissions and vulnerability to seedbeds of sustainability and resilience
Exploring urban transformations in Latin America
Adapte: A tale of diverse teams coming together to do issue-driven interdisciplinary research
Conceptualizing urban water security in an urbanizing world
From risk to WEF security in the city: The influence of interdependent infrastructural systems
Latin American cities and climate change: Challenges and options to mitigation and adaptation responses
Testing Theories to Explore the Drivers of Cities' Atmospheric Emissions
Despite a growing body of evidence demonstrating the importance of cities as sources of many local, regional, and global impacts on the atmosphere, ecosystems, and human populations, most theories on the relationship between society and the environment have focused on the global or national level. A variety of theories exist on human-environment interactions; for example, ecological modernization, urban transitions, and human ecology. However, wi…
Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability to global environmental change: Challenges and pathways for an action-oriented research agenda for middle-income and low-income countries
Risk Inequality and the Food-Energy-Water (FEW) Nexus: A Study of 43 City Adaptation Plans
Goals aimed at adapting to climate change in sustainable and just ways are embedded in global agreements such as the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda. However, largely unexamined, are the ways that narrative understandings conveyed in adaptation plans consider and attempt to address inequality in climate risk to urban populations and FEW-systems. In this paper, we examine whether and how adaptation plans from C40 member citi…
The Influence of Internal Migration on Exposure to Extreme Weather Events in Mexico
Between 2005 and 2010, 6.3 million migrants (approximately 6% of the population) moved domestically within Mexico. These shifts have potential implications for exposure to natural disasters. To examine this relationship, we use census microdata in conjunction with information on natural disaster events. The populations exposed to extreme weather events are first calculated based on observed disasters and demographic change between 2005 and 2010. …
Science and institution building in urban climate-change policymaking
As cities develop climate-change policies, they are likely to engage with and produce new science and information. What influences the choices cities make about this engagement? Our aim is to understand the differences in the ways city governments structure their relationship to climate-change science and expertise, and the extent to which these choices reflect broader governance orientations towards climate change as a policy area. The climate-c…
Rethinking integrated assessments and management projects in the Americas
Missing the multiple dimensions of water? Neoliberal modernization in Mexico City and Buenos Aires
Private participation in the management of water and sanitation has been firmly promoted and concentrated in a handful of countries and their urban centers. Latin America became one of the main recipients of investment in infrastructure projects involving private participation. However, private participation has accomplished neither the scale nor the benefits anticipated by its promoters. Not only have water and sanitation received only a tiny pa…
Extreme events and climate adaptation‐mitigation linkages: Understanding low‐carbon transitions in the era of global urbanization
It has become increasingly clear that cities will have to simultaneously undertake both adaptation and mitigation in response to accelerating climate change and the growing demands for meaningful climate action. Here we examine the connections between climate mitigation and climate adaptation, specifically, between low‐carbon energy systems and extreme events. The article specifically addresses the question, how do responses to extreme climate ri…
Sustainability and Public Management Reform: Two Challenges for Mexican Environmental Policy
Mexico’s efforts to develop and implement environmental policy face two critical challenges: (a) underlying but predictable difficulties in defining the concept of sustainable development and (b) fundamental organizational difficulties associated with public management reform within the responsible agency, the Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources, and Fisheries of Mexico (SEMARNAP). This article examines these difficulties conceptually, tra…
Sustainability and Public Management Reform: Two Challenges for Mexican Environmental Policy
Mexico’s efforts to develop and implement environmental policy face two critical challenges: (a) underlying but predictable difficulties in defining the concept of sustainable development and (b) fundamental organizational difficulties associated with public management reform within the responsible agency, the Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources, and Fisheries of Mexico (SEMARNAP). This article examines these difficulties conceptually, tra…
Paradoxes of Decentralization: Water Reform and Social Implications in Mexico
Are we missing the point: Particularities of urbanization, sustainability and carbon emissions in Latin American cities
The discourse on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in cities is dominated by ecological modernization theory, which focuses primarily on technological approaches supported by market mechanisms to curb carbon emissions. This discourse has contributed to a research and management agenda. Yet this is based primarily on perceptions and precedents drawn from high-income nations. This paper draws on empirical evidence from Latin American cities fo…
Testing Theories to Explore the Drivers of Cities' Atmospheric Emissions
Despite a growing body of evidence demonstrating the importance of cities as sources of many local, regional, and global impacts on the atmosphere, ecosystems, and human populations, most theories on the relationship between society and the environment have focused on the global or national level. A variety of theories exist on human-environment interactions; for example, ecological modernization, urban transitions, and human ecology. However, wi…
Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability to global environmental change: Challenges and pathways for an action-oriented research agenda for middle-income and low-income countries
Water in Mexico City: What will climate change bring to its history of water-related hazards and vulnerabilities
This paper describes the risks that Mexico City faces from flooding and water scarcity, how these risks developed over time and how climate change will affect them. It begins by discussing the climatic and hydrological conditions that explain the abundance of water resources and the droughts and floods that have affected the city and its surrounds for centuries. It then presents the water-relevant implications of climate change for the city and c…
Cities in transition: Transforming urban centers from hotbeds of GHG emissions and vulnerability to seedbeds of sustainability and resilience
Conceptualizing urban vulnerability to global climate and environmental change
Latin American cities and climate change: Challenges and options to mitigation and adaptation responses
Missing the multiple dimensions of water? Neoliberal modernization in Mexico City and Buenos Aires
Private participation in the management of water and sanitation has been firmly promoted and concentrated in a handful of countries and their urban centers. Latin America became one of the main recipients of investment in infrastructure projects involving private participation. However, private participation has accomplished neither the scale nor the benefits anticipated by its promoters. Not only have water and sanitation received only a tiny pa…
Adapte: A tale of diverse teams coming together to do issue-driven interdisciplinary research
Rethinking integrated assessments and management projects in the Americas
Urban vulnerability to temperature-related hazards: A meta-analysis and meta-knowledge approach
Exploring urban transformations in Latin America
You say you want a revolution? Transforming education and capacity building in response to global change
Exploration of health risks related to air pollution and temperature in three Latin American cities
Scale, urban risk and adaptation capacity in neighborhoods of Latin American cities
Science and institution building in urban climate-change policymaking
As cities develop climate-change policies, they are likely to engage with and produce new science and information. What influences the choices cities make about this engagement? Our aim is to understand the differences in the ways city governments structure their relationship to climate-change science and expertise, and the extent to which these choices reflect broader governance orientations towards climate change as a policy area. The climate-c…
The Influence of Internal Migration on Exposure to Extreme Weather Events in Mexico
Between 2005 and 2010, 6.3 million migrants (approximately 6% of the population) moved domestically within Mexico. These shifts have potential implications for exposure to natural disasters. To examine this relationship, we use census microdata in conjunction with information on natural disaster events. The populations exposed to extreme weather events are first calculated based on observed disasters and demographic change between 2005 and 2010. …
Conceptualizing urban water security in an urbanizing world
Exploring citizen infrastructure and environmental priorities in Mumbai, India
From risk to WEF security in the city: The influence of interdependent infrastructural systems
Risk Inequality and the Food-Energy-Water (FEW) Nexus: A Study of 43 City Adaptation Plans
Goals aimed at adapting to climate change in sustainable and just ways are embedded in global agreements such as the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda. However, largely unexamined, are the ways that narrative understandings conveyed in adaptation plans consider and attempt to address inequality in climate risk to urban populations and FEW-systems. In this paper, we examine whether and how adaptation plans from C40 member citi…
Extreme events and climate adaptation‐mitigation linkages: Understanding low‐carbon transitions in the era of global urbanization
It has become increasingly clear that cities will have to simultaneously undertake both adaptation and mitigation in response to accelerating climate change and the growing demands for meaningful climate action. Here we examine the connections between climate mitigation and climate adaptation, specifically, between low‐carbon energy systems and extreme events. The article specifically addresses the question, how do responses to extreme climate ri…
A data-driven mobility–energy typology framework for New York State
Exploring multidimensional aspects of differences in technology adoption, travel, and vehicle ownership across settlement types can help inform energy-efficient and affordable mobility system goals. At the same time, mapping key enablers, barriers, and risks for successfully meeting ambitious goals and targets (e.g. by geography, age, income, education, population density) offer important explanatory power as to context-specific challenges and op…
Geography (21 works) · Economics (20 works) · Political science (19 works) · Environmental resource management (17 works) · Environmental planning (16 works) · Ecology (15 works) · Economic growth (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Business (12 works) · Climate change (11 works)