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Publications by Udall Center and NNI Staff

January-May 2011

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When ecosystem services crash: Preparing for big, fast, patchy climate change

By David D. Breshears, LAURA LOPEZ-HOFFMAN
, and Lisa J. Graumlich. 2011. Ambio: A Journal of the Human Environment, 40(3): 263-301.

Provides a conceptual framework of options for stakeholders reliant on ecosystem services that might suddenly disappear or diminish due to catastrophic and large-scale ecosystem changes.

Link to article here.
For more information, contact [email protected].

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Making First Nation Law: The Listuguj Mi'gmaq Fishery

By
Stephen Cornell, Renee Goldtooth, Miriam Jorgensen, and Rachel Starks and others. 2010 (publicly availavle January 2011). Native Nations Institute and the  National Centre for First Nations Governance. 35p.

Describes how the Listuguj Mi'gmaq First Nation government took over the management of the salmon fishery in the Restigouche River (between the provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec).

Link to report here (pdf).
For more information, contact [email protected].

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Urban water demand modeling: Review of concepts, methods, and organizing principles

By LILY A. HOUSE-PETERS and Heejun Chang
. 2011 (available online). Water Resources Research.

Uses the theoretical framework of coupled human and natural systems to review the methodological advances in urban water demand modeling over the last three decades.


Link to article here (pdf).
For more information, contact [email protected].

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A North American Greenprint: Next Steps in Developing Adaptive Capacity for Transboundary Conservation under Climate Change

By LAURA LOPEZ-HOFFMAN
, Barbara J. Morehouse, and Lisa J. Graumlich. 2011. Udall Center Publications. 10p.

Summarizes a workshop discussion at the WILD 9 conference in which participants assessed the state of North American transboundary conservation efforts and developed a short list of specific, prioritized actions to be taken in the next three-to-five years to strengthen the adaptive capacity of transboundary conservation programs, policies, and institutions.

Link to report here (English pdf) or here (Spanish pdf).
For more information, contact [email protected].

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Guidance on Links Between Water Reclamation and Reuse and Regional Growth
 

By CHRISTOPHER A. SCOTT, ANNE BROWNING-AIKEN, KERRI JEAN ORMEROD, ROBERT G. VARADY, CARLOS D. MOGOLLON, and Carrie Tessmer. 2011. Report 6-16-1. WateReuse Research Foundation. 67p.

Provides an overview of experiences with water reuse in the United States, presents the results of a survey of opinions about water reuse from residents in several communities across Arizona, and looks at the options for water reuse for areas of high population growth and potential water scarcity.
 


Link to report here.
For more information, contact [email protected].

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Energy and water resources scarcity: Critical infrastructure for growth and economic development in Arizona and Sonora

By CHRISTOPHER A. SCOTT and Martin J. Pasqualetti. 2010 (published May 2011). Natural Resources Journal, 50(3): 645-82.


Describes the interconnection between water and energy -- water is used to produce energy and energy is used to deliver water -- in the semi-arid, rapidly urbanizing borderlands of Arizona and Sonora.

Link to article here (pdf).
For more information, contact [email protected].

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Innovating resource regimes: Water, wastewater, and the institutional dynamics of urban hydraulic reach in northwest Mexico

By CHRISTOPHER A. SCOTT and Nicolas Pineda Pablos. 2011 (available online). Geoforum
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Uses the concept of policy regionalism, as a process-based understanding of institutions and decision-making, to examine and explain the causes, forms, and outcomes of hydraulic reach in Hermosillo, Sonora.

Link to article here.
For more information, contact [email protected].

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Review of Water Policy in Texas: Responding to the Rise of Scarcity (R.C. Griffin, ed., 2011)

By ZACHARY P. SUGG. 2011 (available online). Water Alternatives, 4(2)
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Discusses new book published by Resources for the Future Press.


Link to review here.
For more information, contact [email protected].

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Promises under construction: The evolving paradigm for water governance and the case of northern Mexico

B
y MARGARET WILDER. 2011. In Water for Food in a Changing World, ed. A. Garrido and H. Ingram. Routledge .

Examines Mexico's water policy transition, using four key indicators associated with successful water policy reform (efficiency, decentralized management, participation, and equity/sustainability) and evaluates these in the context of three sectors subject to dramatic transformation: urban water services, irrigation districts, and river basin councils.

Link to book here.
For more information, contact [email protected].

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Water and Urban Development: Coastal Vulnerability in Puerto Penasco (Agua y desarollo urbano: vunerabilidad costera in Puerto Penasco)

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y MARGARET WILDER, JAMIE P. McEVOY, R. Beaty, and EMILY McGOVERN. Working Papers on Climate Change and Water Resources, No. 2. Udall Center Publications. 49p.

Describes urban water sector vulnerability and institutional capacity for adaptation for water management in Puerto Peasco, Sonora.

Link to report here (English/Spanish pdf).
For more information, contact [email protected].

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Urban Water Vulnerability and Institutional Changes in Ambos Nogales (Vulnerabilidad de agua urbana y desafios en Ambos Nogales)

B
y MARGARET WILDER, JEREMY SLACK, ROBERT G. VARADY, OSCAR LAI, R. Beaty, and EMILY McGOVERN. Working Papers on Climate Change and Water Resources, No. 1. Udall Center Publications. 42p.

Describes urban water sector vulnerability and institutional capacity for adaptation for water management in Ambos Nogales, Sonora/Arizona.

Link to report here (English/Spanish pdf).
For more information, contact [email protected].

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