Advancing Sustainability of U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Drylands Proceedings of a Workshop (2018) / Chapter Skim
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However, these strides have contributed to what scientists call the "safe development paradox," namely, that institutionalized risk management and disaster relief at a regional scale actually dampen the public's sensitivity to adverse environmental changes (e.g., a drying climate and tightening water supply) and thus reduce incentives for individual concern and adaptation.1 While tradeoffs between the robustness and vulnerability of social and ecological systems across time might be inevitable, awareness of such tradeoffs can potentially improve planning and decision making and ensure flexibility, adaptability, and improved responsiveness to changing conditions.
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The United Nations highlights the significance of the nexus among food, energy, and water, and notes that demand for all three of these elements is increasing due to rising populations, economic growth, changing diets, and rapid urbanization.2 It stresses the importance of understanding the linkages in order to promote sustainable development. The various border states in Mexico and the United States have had long-standing collaborations in relation to water resource management, flood control, fire management, and sharing information and scientific outputs related to climate variability and change.
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The steering committee's role was limited to planning and convening the workshop. The views contained in the report are those of individual workshop participants and do not necessarily represent the views of all workshop participants, the steering committee, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the George and Cynthia Mitchell Endowment for Sustainability Sciences, or the Academia Mexicana de Ciencias, the Academia de Ingeniería de México and the Academia Nacional de Medicina de México.
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The proceedings will be a joint document published in English by the National Academies Press and in Spanish by the Mexican Academy of Sciences and will be used to help stimulate interest in additional bi-national collaborations. A BRIEF HISTORY OF BINATIONAL COLLABORATION The workshop began with opening remarks from Alejandro Ricardo Femat Flores, the director of IPICYT; Vaughan Turekian, the executive director of Policy and Global Affairs at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; and José Luis Morán, president of the Academia Mexicana de Ciencias (AMC, the Mexican Academy of Sciences)
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Washington, DC: National Academy Press. 7 AMC–NRC Joint Working Group on Ocean Sciences, Academia Mexicana de Ciencias, and National Research Council (U.S.)
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9 work on environmental sustainability and distributive justice and said that ethical principle for an equal, fair, and just distribution of resources is regarded by national and international legislation as a human right. Escalante noted that intervention design is a key component to solving sustainability problems.
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Escalante referenced the food-energy-water nexus as an example of the interdisciplinary nature of sustainability science: because the components interact with and affect each other, solving the scientific challenges requires a diverse representation of experts. Effectively dealing with binational and transboundary sustainability challenges will touch on numerous dimensions, including national economies, globalization, development, urbanization, migration, safety and security, and climate change.
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