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Routledge eBooks, Mar 29, 2023
Journal of Lesbian Studies, Nov 4, 2022
Journal of Science Policy & Governance
The Belmont Forum and the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) organized an ... more The Belmont Forum and the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) organized an online training workshop on transdisciplinary (TD) approaches at the Sustainability, Research, and Innovation Congress (SRI) in 2022. The IAI is an intergovernmental organization that brings together 19 countries from the Americas to support adaptation to the world’s changing environment. The Belmont Forum is a consortium of major funders and international science councils to promote knowledge about sustainability science. The workshop aimed to create a safe environment for participants to share their impressions of and experiences about transdisciplinary research, using the Americas (IAI mandate) as a launching point for TD approaches globally. The workshop consisted of two online sessions: Transdisciplinary Approach 101 and Transdisciplinary Case Studies. The objectives of the current workshop report are: 1) to identify the key takeaways regarding common challenges and opportunities fo...
Journal of Lesbian Studies
The US-South Korea Alliance
Machine Learning and the City
Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2021
Recent accounts of labor displacement highlight the automation of tasks in care work, long though... more Recent accounts of labor displacement highlight the automation of tasks in care work, long thought to require uniquely human skills. These developments call for a retheorization of displacement that addresses the shifting sites and relations of human labor, while also questioning the humanness of care. This intervention supplements a humanist concern for the displacement of discrete human bodies with a posthuman concern for the displacement of specific affective relations. The emerging robotic care industry illustrates how displacement involves complex reconfigurations of more-than-human intimacy. Developing a micropolitical understanding of technological displacement, we argue that caring as a sensory set of affective relations is being transformed by new regimes of robotic care, and this has crucial implications for theorizations of care, automation, and displacement in geography.
A Research Agenda for Environmental Management, 2019
Transdisciplinary research that addresses global change or sustainability issues often involves c... more Transdisciplinary research that addresses global change or sustainability issues often involves coordinated actions and processes involving diverse groups that cross sectorial, disciplinary, and organizational boundaries. In this chapter, we describe several key kinds of groups and discuss the challenges of incorporating them into research teams. These challenges include avoiding bias and promoting equality among actors, equity among transdisciplinary actors, cultural and language differences, parallel play instead of integrated efforts and managing multiple motivations and expectations. The strategies we review to mitigate the challenges discussed above are: managing conflict and overcoming cultural barriers; constructing shared conceptual frameworks; utilizing boundary spanners; utilizing guided dialog; and consilience workshops
Progress in Human Geography, 2017
The rapid expansion of online education compels debate over what accessible higher education shou... more The rapid expansion of online education compels debate over what accessible higher education should be, how it should be delivered, and whom it should serve. While geographers remain relatively marginal to this debate, they have engaged the question of the neoliberal university, where online education is sometimes characterized as another instantiation of the neoliberal turn. This paper draws geographies of education scholarship into productive conversation with online teaching and learning, critical pedagogy, and public geographies literatures to argue that geographers can reframe the debate over online education and reposition it as a productive space of critical dialogue, inquiry, and encounter.
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2016
The greater Los Angeles region is home to an estimated 13 million people. The region’s climate an... more The greater Los Angeles region is home to an estimated 13 million people. The region’s climate and culture is intimately tied to its coastal proximity. Famous for many things, the region is world-renowned for its envious climate, characterized by golden rays of sunshine and mild winters. The capacity of the ocean to store heat results in warmer winters and cooler summers, creating the area’s Mediterranean microclimate, which is much more temperate than the desert conditions further inland. The California current, one of only five major ocean currents globally to be associated with an upwelling zone, also regulates the coastal conditions in this area. The California current is an eastern boundary current of the North Pacific Gyre, a clockwise circulation, transporting cool waters from the northern Bering Sea south along the California coast. Upwelling generated by this circulation transports nutrient-rich sediments from the deep ocean to the surface, stimulating abundant primary prod...
groundwatergovernance.org
Water Resources Research, 2011
In this paper, we use a theoretical framework of coupled human and natural systems to review the ... more In this paper, we use a theoretical framework of coupled human and natural systems to review the methodological advances in urban water demand modeling over the past 3 decades. The goal of this review is to quantify the capacity of increasingly complex modeling techniques to account for complex human and natural processes, uncertainty, and resilience across spatial and temporal scales. This review begins with coupled human and natural systems theory and situates urban water demand within this framework. The second section reviews urban water demand literature and summarizes methodological advances in relation to four central themes: (1) interactions within and across multiple spatial and temporal scales, (2) acknowledgment and quantification of uncertainty, (3) identification of thresholds, nonlinear system response, and the consequences for resilience, and (4) the transition from simple statistical modeling to fully integrated dynamic modeling. This review will show that increasing...
Routledge eBooks, Mar 29, 2023
Journal of Lesbian Studies, Nov 4, 2022
Journal of Science Policy & Governance
The Belmont Forum and the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) organized an ... more The Belmont Forum and the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) organized an online training workshop on transdisciplinary (TD) approaches at the Sustainability, Research, and Innovation Congress (SRI) in 2022. The IAI is an intergovernmental organization that brings together 19 countries from the Americas to support adaptation to the world’s changing environment. The Belmont Forum is a consortium of major funders and international science councils to promote knowledge about sustainability science. The workshop aimed to create a safe environment for participants to share their impressions of and experiences about transdisciplinary research, using the Americas (IAI mandate) as a launching point for TD approaches globally. The workshop consisted of two online sessions: Transdisciplinary Approach 101 and Transdisciplinary Case Studies. The objectives of the current workshop report are: 1) to identify the key takeaways regarding common challenges and opportunities fo...
Journal of Lesbian Studies
The US-South Korea Alliance
Machine Learning and the City
Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2021
Recent accounts of labor displacement highlight the automation of tasks in care work, long though... more Recent accounts of labor displacement highlight the automation of tasks in care work, long thought to require uniquely human skills. These developments call for a retheorization of displacement that addresses the shifting sites and relations of human labor, while also questioning the humanness of care. This intervention supplements a humanist concern for the displacement of discrete human bodies with a posthuman concern for the displacement of specific affective relations. The emerging robotic care industry illustrates how displacement involves complex reconfigurations of more-than-human intimacy. Developing a micropolitical understanding of technological displacement, we argue that caring as a sensory set of affective relations is being transformed by new regimes of robotic care, and this has crucial implications for theorizations of care, automation, and displacement in geography.
A Research Agenda for Environmental Management, 2019
Transdisciplinary research that addresses global change or sustainability issues often involves c... more Transdisciplinary research that addresses global change or sustainability issues often involves coordinated actions and processes involving diverse groups that cross sectorial, disciplinary, and organizational boundaries. In this chapter, we describe several key kinds of groups and discuss the challenges of incorporating them into research teams. These challenges include avoiding bias and promoting equality among actors, equity among transdisciplinary actors, cultural and language differences, parallel play instead of integrated efforts and managing multiple motivations and expectations. The strategies we review to mitigate the challenges discussed above are: managing conflict and overcoming cultural barriers; constructing shared conceptual frameworks; utilizing boundary spanners; utilizing guided dialog; and consilience workshops
Progress in Human Geography, 2017
The rapid expansion of online education compels debate over what accessible higher education shou... more The rapid expansion of online education compels debate over what accessible higher education should be, how it should be delivered, and whom it should serve. While geographers remain relatively marginal to this debate, they have engaged the question of the neoliberal university, where online education is sometimes characterized as another instantiation of the neoliberal turn. This paper draws geographies of education scholarship into productive conversation with online teaching and learning, critical pedagogy, and public geographies literatures to argue that geographers can reframe the debate over online education and reposition it as a productive space of critical dialogue, inquiry, and encounter.
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2016
The greater Los Angeles region is home to an estimated 13 million people. The region’s climate an... more The greater Los Angeles region is home to an estimated 13 million people. The region’s climate and culture is intimately tied to its coastal proximity. Famous for many things, the region is world-renowned for its envious climate, characterized by golden rays of sunshine and mild winters. The capacity of the ocean to store heat results in warmer winters and cooler summers, creating the area’s Mediterranean microclimate, which is much more temperate than the desert conditions further inland. The California current, one of only five major ocean currents globally to be associated with an upwelling zone, also regulates the coastal conditions in this area. The California current is an eastern boundary current of the North Pacific Gyre, a clockwise circulation, transporting cool waters from the northern Bering Sea south along the California coast. Upwelling generated by this circulation transports nutrient-rich sediments from the deep ocean to the surface, stimulating abundant primary prod...
groundwatergovernance.org
Water Resources Research, 2011
In this paper, we use a theoretical framework of coupled human and natural systems to review the ... more In this paper, we use a theoretical framework of coupled human and natural systems to review the methodological advances in urban water demand modeling over the past 3 decades. The goal of this review is to quantify the capacity of increasingly complex modeling techniques to account for complex human and natural processes, uncertainty, and resilience across spatial and temporal scales. This review begins with coupled human and natural systems theory and situates urban water demand within this framework. The second section reviews urban water demand literature and summarizes methodological advances in relation to four central themes: (1) interactions within and across multiple spatial and temporal scales, (2) acknowledgment and quantification of uncertainty, (3) identification of thresholds, nonlinear system response, and the consequences for resilience, and (4) the transition from simple statistical modeling to fully integrated dynamic modeling. This review will show that increasing...
Overlain with pipes, crisscrossed by barbed-wire fencing, and perforated by deep wells, watershed... more Overlain with pipes, crisscrossed by barbed-wire fencing, and perforated by deep wells, watersheds in the Arizona (USA) – Sonora (Mexico) borderlands are marked by complex, overlapping political and environmental governance regimes. Riparian zones, characterized by accessible surface water and shallow groundwater, high quality forage, and nutrient rich floodplain soils, are highly valuable for a range of productive sectors, including agriculture, ranching, and mining. In the semi-arid, high-elevation grasslands of the binational San Pedro River watershed, access to water and riparian spaces is characterized by a long history of shifting political-economic conditions, changing natural resource management policies, and transformations in social-ecological relations. This paper examines the politics of transformation in riparian social-ecological systems (SES) in the Arizona-Sonora borderlands. The aim of this research is to advance understanding of the social and ecological struggles that accompany transformative moments in human-environment relations. I draw into conversation two influential, yet long separate, theoretical traditions found in political ecology scholarship. The research findings demonstrate that integrating a Marxist historical-geographical materialist approach to examining the mechanisms of riparian enclosure with a radical reinterpretation of social-ecological resilience theory serves to bridge a critical gap in understanding the complex relations between social-ecological transformation, the production of spaces of exclusion, and the uneven development of resilience in the borderlands.
Climate change will affect various sectors of water resources in Oregon in the 21 st century. The... more Climate change will affect various sectors of water resources in Oregon in the 21 st century. The observed trends in streamflow show significant declines in September flow and, although not significant, increases in March flow in many transient rain-snow basins. These streamflow trends are associated with rising temperature and coincident declines in snowpack in spring in the latter half of the 20 th century. While there are no distinct trends in high precipitation events, such events are associated with climate variability such as ENSO and PDO. Effects of ENSO and PDO are more pronounced at the beginning and end of the wet season in the Willamette River basin.
Riparian corridors in arid regions provide vital ecosystem services but are under pressure due to... more Riparian corridors in arid regions provide vital ecosystem services but are under pressure due to growing competition for scarce water, increased aridity and hydrologic variability under climate change, and ecosystem fragmentation resulting from urban development. We employ a social-ecological systems (SES) framework to examine and assess land use and land cover change in the riparian corridor of two US-Mexico border region rivers: the Upper San Pedro River that crosses from Sonora state to Arizona, and the San Miguel River in Sonora. We utilize remote sensing of satellite imagery and climate information to examine inter-annual (May - October) and intra-annual (May - May; October - October) vegetation change over the 1990-2010 period at spatial scales from the watershed to riparian buffers of 1 km and 5km. Expanding on two potential system conditions at either end of a gradient from primarily natural to predominantly anthropogenic, we consider how the multi-scale vegetation change history can provide insights into the resilience of arid region riparian corridors. Land cover change analysis can directly contribute to resilience theory when linked to an examination of the changing capacity of an SES to provide diverse ecosystem services under shifting conditions, as thresholds are approached or crossed.
A week-long survey of the lands adjacent to the coral reefs of Cabo Pulmo in Baja California Sur ... more A week-long survey of the lands adjacent to the coral reefs of Cabo Pulmo in Baja California Sur in November 2013 documented the terrestrial biodiversity of these lands (392 plants, 44 mammals, 29 reptiles, and 95 birds, of which 42 have formal conservation recognition as endangered species under Mexican NOM-059). The area of highest conservation importance, Punta Arena, is in the proposed core development zone of Cabo Dorado. Contained within the 11 square kilometers of Punta Arena are two unique habitats, two micro-endemic plant species only known to occur within these habitats, threatened species of shorebirds and waterfowl, and nesting sea turtles. We propose an extension of the boundaries of the Cabo Pulmo National Park to incorporate
the lands and waters of Punta Arena to protect irreplaceable forms of life and the coral reef ecosystem of the region. Several specific conservation recommendations and future research and long-term monitoring actions are presented that will help conserve this biodiversity hotspot.