Adapting Across Boundaries

Climate Change, Social Learning, and Resilience in the U.S.–Mexico Border Region

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8375241
AutoresMargaret Wilder, Margaret O Wilder (0000-0001-8446-1960, University of Arizona), Christopher A Scott (0000-0002-6767-0450, University of Arizona), Nicolás Pineda Pablos (0000-0003-0897-2667, El Colegio de Sonora), Robert G Varady (0000-0002-3521-9649, University of Arizona), Gregg M Garfin (0000-0002-2760-132X, University of Arizona), James Mcevoy (0000-0001-7762-619X, University of Arizona), Jamie Mcevoy
Ano2010
Volume100
Fascículo4
Páginas917-928
Data de publicação2010-08-31
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAnnals of the Association of American Geographers (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0004-5608 • E-ISSN: 1467-8306
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00045608.2010.500235
OpenAlexW2059418834
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas33
Referências citadas25

The spatial and human dimensions of climate change are brought into relief at international borders where climate change poses particular challenges. This article explores “double exposure” to climatic and globalization processes for the U.S.–Mexico border region, where rapid urbanization, industrialization, and agricultural intensification result in vulnerability to water scarcity as the primary climate change concern. For portions of the western border within the North American monsoon climate regime, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projects temperature increases of 2 to 4°C by midcentury and up to 3 to 5°C by 2100, with possible decreases of 5 to 8 percent in precipitation. Like the climate and water drivers themselves, proposed societal responses can also be regionalized across borders. Nevertheless, binational responses are confronted by a complex institutional landscape. The coproduction of science and policy must be situated in the context of competing institutional jurisdictions and legitimacy claims. Adaptation to climate change is conventionally understood as more difficult at international borders, yet regionalizing adaptive responses could also potentially increase resilience. We assess three cases of transboundary collaboration in the Arizona–Sonora region based on specific indicators that contribute importantly to building adaptive capacity. We conclude that three key factors can increase resilience over the long term: shared social learning, the formation of binational “communities of practice” among water managers or disaster-relief planners, and the coproduction of climate knowledge

Adaptive capacity · Agriculture · Climate change · Climate resilience · Context (archaeology) · Coproduction · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Political economy of climate change · Political science · Psychological resilience · Vulnerability (computing) · Water scarcity · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · Climate change impacts on agriculture · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Ecology · Environmental Science