TY - JOUR
T1 - A comparative assessment of climate vulnerability
T2 - Agriculture and ranching on both sides of the US-Mexico border
AU - Vásquez-León, Marcela
AU - West, Colin Thor
AU - Finan, Timothy J.
N1 - Funding Information:
The Alamos, Mexico fieldwork was supported by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the study “Economic and demographic causes of land use change in Mexico” by Dr. Diana Liverman, Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona (UofA). The fieldwork in the Sulphur Springs Valley, Arizona was part of the Climate Assessment for the Southwest Project (CLIMAS) based at the Institute for the Study of Planet Earth, the UofA and funded through the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) office of Global Programs (OGP). Thanks are also due to the Comins Graduate Fellowship of the Department of Anthropology at the UofA.
PY - 2003/10
Y1 - 2003/10
N2 - Social science research on climate vulnerability tends to be limited to case studies in either industrial countries or in less-developed nations. The empirical study presented here takes a comparative approach across this divide by examining rural livelihoods on both sides of the United States-Mexico border. Looking beyond single agricultural systems, crossing borders and listening to rural producers in this semi-arid environment offers a more complete picture of how differences in access to resources, state involvement, class and ethnicity result in drastically different vulnerabilities within a similar biophysical context. We distinguish between coping and buffering in examining adaptation strategies and place an emphasis on the historical context of vulnerability as a dynamic social process with socioeconomic and environmental consequences.
AB - Social science research on climate vulnerability tends to be limited to case studies in either industrial countries or in less-developed nations. The empirical study presented here takes a comparative approach across this divide by examining rural livelihoods on both sides of the United States-Mexico border. Looking beyond single agricultural systems, crossing borders and listening to rural producers in this semi-arid environment offers a more complete picture of how differences in access to resources, state involvement, class and ethnicity result in drastically different vulnerabilities within a similar biophysical context. We distinguish between coping and buffering in examining adaptation strategies and place an emphasis on the historical context of vulnerability as a dynamic social process with socioeconomic and environmental consequences.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0959-3780(03)00034-7
DO - 10.1016/S0959-3780(03)00034-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0042786901
SN - 0959-3780
VL - 13
SP - 159
EP - 173
JO - Global Environmental Change
JF - Global Environmental Change
IS - 3
ER -