Sustainability of Coastal Resource Use in San Quintin, Mexico
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10889228 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alfonso Aguirre-Muñoz, Alfonso Aguirre‐Muñoz (United States Geological Survey, corresponding author), Robert W Buddemeier (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, corresponding author), Victor Camacho-Ibar, Víctor F Camacho-Ibar (0000-0003-2424-1979, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, corresponding author), José D Carriquiry (0000-0003-3193-1302, Agro Business Park, corresponding author), Silvia E Ibarra-Obando (Agro Business Park, corresponding author), Barbara W Massey (Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, corresponding author), Stephen V Smith (corresponding author), Fredrik Wulff (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 142-149 |
| Publication date | 2001-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | AMBIO (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0044-7447 • E-ISSN: 1654-7209 |
| Publisher | Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (PUBLISHER • SE) |
| DOI | 10.1579/0044-7447-30.3.142 |
| PMID | 11436661 |
| OpenAlex | W2174633941 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 2 |
San Quintin, Mexico, provides a useful site for integrated analyses of material fluxes and socioeconomic constraints in a geographically isolated system. Natural resource utilization on the land is dominated by groundwater exploitation for cultivation of horticulture crops (primarily tomatoes). Irrigation exceeds water recharge minus export by a factor of 6. Resource utilization in the bay is dominated by oyster culture; food for the oysters is provided by tidal exchange of bay and ocean water. Consideration of oyster respiration and system respiration suggests that the present level of aquaculture is about 40% of the sustainable level. A "physical unsustainability index" (PhUI) was developed to measure the proportional departure of utilization of the most limiting resource for sustainability: 6 on land; 0.4 in the bay. Based on PhUI and measures of economic development, we conclude that aquaculture is more viable than agriculture
Economics · Environmental protection · Environmental resource management · Geography · Natural resource economics · Resource (disambiguation · Resource use · Sustainability · Coastal and Marine Management · Computer Science · Ecology · Environmental Science
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Trade-offs across the water-energy-food nexus
Resource-based sustainability indicators
Maquiladora industrialization of the Baja California peninsula
Environmental Violence and the Socio-environmental (de)Evolution of a Landscape in the San Quintín Valley
Water Flowing North of the Border
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2020 (19) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |