Science and socio-ecological resilience: examples from the Arizona-Sonora Border

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 272-284

  Morehouse, Barbara J ^a   Ferguson, Daniel B ^a   Owen, Gigi ^a   Browning Aiken, Anne ^a   Wong Gonzalez, Pablo ^b   Pineda, Nicolás ^c   Varady, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN ALIMENTACIÓN Y DESARROLLO   (Mexico)

^c El Colegio de Sonora   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Institutions; Socio ecological resilience; Transformation; U.S. Mexico border

Indexed keywords

GROUND WATER;

BIOPHYSICS; BIOSPHERE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; POLICY; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIVER; SCIENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES; WATER FLOW; WATER SUPPLY; WETLAND;

EID: 42349087871     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2007.07.007     Document Type: Review

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