TY - JOUR
T1 - Local Responses to Climate Change Vulnerability Along the Western Reach of the US-Mexico Border
AU - Lara-Valencia, Francisco
AU - Giner, Maria Elena
N1 - Funding Information:
Research for this paper was supported by the Southwest Center for Environment Research and Policy (SCERP Grant EIR-08-03).
Funding Information:
Although all metropolitan areas maintain an active collaboration with federal agencies like the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and Mexico’s National Institute of Ecology (INE), such partnerships mainly provide the foundation for the more active role played by partnerships with universities, citizen groups or even the private sector. This is particularly true in the case of the Four Valleys Region where cities reported collaboration with federal agencies less frequently. The role of federal efforts to curb GHG emission or promote adaptation is often perceived as supportive of local initiatives to address technical assistance and training needs or the application of specially designed software to help city officials to calculate past and current emissions, evaluate options for reducing emissions and tracking the effects of reduction measures, in terms of both cost savings and GHG emissions. Many of these local initiatives are funded by direct grants provided by the USEPA or indirectly through programs like US– Mexico Border 2012.
PY - 2013/8
Y1 - 2013/8
N2 - The US-Mexico borderland is a highly urbanized region, with urbanization levels rivaling that of many industrialized nations. Against this backdrop, recent studies predict a warmer climate and increased droughts in the region that will exacerbate competition over a limited supply of water resources and energy, in addition to higher incidence of vector-borne disease, flooding, and heat waves that would be more intensively felt in urban areas. This article seeks to contribute to the limited body of knowledge regarding climate change responses by municipalities on both sides of the US-Mexico border, including their type, drivers, magnitude and sustainability. Understanding these aspects is necessary to shed light on the challenges this border region faces to incorporate climate change in its urban agenda and create the governance mechanisms for effective cross-border mitigation and adaptation.
AB - The US-Mexico borderland is a highly urbanized region, with urbanization levels rivaling that of many industrialized nations. Against this backdrop, recent studies predict a warmer climate and increased droughts in the region that will exacerbate competition over a limited supply of water resources and energy, in addition to higher incidence of vector-borne disease, flooding, and heat waves that would be more intensively felt in urban areas. This article seeks to contribute to the limited body of knowledge regarding climate change responses by municipalities on both sides of the US-Mexico border, including their type, drivers, magnitude and sustainability. Understanding these aspects is necessary to shed light on the challenges this border region faces to incorporate climate change in its urban agenda and create the governance mechanisms for effective cross-border mitigation and adaptation.
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U2 - 10.1080/08865655.2013.854656
DO - 10.1080/08865655.2013.854656
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84889564353
SN - 0886-5655
VL - 28
SP - 191
EP - 204
JO - Journal of Borderlands Studies
JF - Journal of Borderlands Studies
IS - 2
ER -