TY - JOUR
T1 - The exigencies of transboundary water security
T2 - insights on community resilience
AU - Varady, Robert G.
AU - Albrecht, Tamee R.
AU - Gerlak, Andrea K.
AU - Wilder, Margaret O.
AU - Mayer, Brian M.
AU - Zuniga-Teran, Adriana
AU - Ernst, Kacey C.
AU - Lemos, Maria Carmen
N1 - Funding Information:
The present paper is a much-revised and expanded version of a presentation by coauthor Robert Varady at the ‘Workshop on Resilience and Complexity,’ organized by the Udall Center and the CNRS UMI 3157–iGLOBES in Tucson, Arizona, Nov. 7, 2017. The work that resulted in this essay was undertaken as part of the International Water Security Network, a project funded by Lloyd’s Register Foundation , a charitable foundation helping protect life and property by supporting engineering-related education, public engagement and the application of research. We further acknowledge the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research, for Project CRN3056), which is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (grant no. GEO-1128040 ) and NSF grant no. DEB-1010495 . The paper also benefited from support from the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation , in Tucson, Arizona. Comments received from two anonymous reviewers helped to further refine the manuscript.
PY - 2020/6
Y1 - 2020/6
N2 - Societies across the globe strive to achieve water security—that is, assure access to sufficient water of acceptable quality for humans and the environment for changing, sustainable societies and ecosystems. But rapid and significant changes in environmental and social systems complicate attempts to assure water-secure conditions. This challenge is further magnified by transboundary conditions—while landscapes and physical processes disregard political borders, human institutions managing these resources often lack the traditions and capital for ensuring resilient, community-based responses to water shortage and contamination. This review highlights how features of community resilience contribute to enhancing transboundary water security using nine examples from the U.S.–Mexico border region. The cases demonstrate how public participation, adaptivity and flexibility, and social mobilization to promote equity and justice help to nurture and maintain community resilience, to the benefit of transboundary water security.
AB - Societies across the globe strive to achieve water security—that is, assure access to sufficient water of acceptable quality for humans and the environment for changing, sustainable societies and ecosystems. But rapid and significant changes in environmental and social systems complicate attempts to assure water-secure conditions. This challenge is further magnified by transboundary conditions—while landscapes and physical processes disregard political borders, human institutions managing these resources often lack the traditions and capital for ensuring resilient, community-based responses to water shortage and contamination. This review highlights how features of community resilience contribute to enhancing transboundary water security using nine examples from the U.S.–Mexico border region. The cases demonstrate how public participation, adaptivity and flexibility, and social mobilization to promote equity and justice help to nurture and maintain community resilience, to the benefit of transboundary water security.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cosust.2020.06.005
DO - 10.1016/j.cosust.2020.06.005
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85089437295
VL - 44
SP - 74
EP - 84
JO - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
JF - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
SN - 1877-3435
ER -