Adapting Across Boundaries
Climate Change, Social Learning, and Resilience in the U.S.–Mexico Border Region
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8375241 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margaret 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 |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 100 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 917-928 |
| Publication date | 2010-08-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annals of the Association of American Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-5608 • E-ISSN: 1467-8306 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00045608.2010.500235 |
| OpenAlex | W2059418834 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 33 |
| References cited | 25 |
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
Los estudios sociales sobre peligros de origen natural en la frontera norte de México. Una revisión teórico-metodológica
Integrating Ecological Impacts
Polycentric governance of multifunctional forested landscapes
Archetypical opportunities for water governance adaptation to climate change
Managing for climate change on federal lands of the western United States
La frontera finlandesa-sueca, las movilidades y la geopolítica de la resiliencia
Pipes and praxis
Ahimsa and Human Development
Progress in household water insecurity metrics
Policy and institutional dimensions of the water–energy nexus
Assessing the Influence of Socioeconomic Status and Air Pollution Levels on the Public Perception of Local Air Quality in a Mexico-US Border City
Estimation of Vulnerability and Risk to Meteorological Drought in Mexico
Conceptualizing community in disaster risk management
Seeking justice in risk landscapes. Small data and toxic autobiographies from an Italian petrochemical town (Gela, Sicily)
Towards joint consideration of adaptive capacity and water security
The exigencies of transboundary water security
Co‐production in climate change research
Governing borderless climate risks
Toward a Regional and World Geography under a Changed Climate
Desalination and hydrodiplomacy
Transboundary adaptive management to reduce climate-change vulnerability in the western U.S.–Mexico border region
Hydrodiplomacy and adaptive governance at the U.S.-Mexico border
Ruminations and insights on hydrodiplomacy
Rethinking integrated assessments and management projects in the Americas
Discourse and desalination
Local Responses to Climate Change Vulnerability Along the Western Reach of the US–Mexico Border
Of research questions and literature reviews
Indigenous knowledge about climate change and sustainability of nomadic livelihoods
Clean energy and water
Mapping vulnerability to climate change-related hazards
Public Health and Climate Change Adaptation at the Federal Level
Water Security and Adaptive Management in the Arid Americas
Livelihoods with multiple stressors
Fairness in Adaptation to Climate Change
Stationarity Is Dead
Transitions towards adaptive management of water facing climate and global change
Model Projections of an Imminent Transition to a More Arid Climate in Southwestern North America
Adaptive Governance of Social-Ecological Systems
Knowledge systems for sustainable development
Climate Change, Ethics and Human Security
Environmental Change and Globalization
Hydrosolidarity and International Water Governance
Challenged Borderlands
The co-production of science and policy in integrated climate assessments
Paradoxes of Decentralization
Water Governance in Mexico
Shadow Spaces for Social Learning
| Unique citing works | 33 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,2 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2022 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |