Adapting Across Boundaries: Climate Change, Social Learning, and Resilience in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region

This research paper examines the intersection of climate change and globalization in the U.S.-Mexico border region, focusing on water scarcity and the potential for binational social learning to increase resilience.

• The U.S.-Mexico border region faces a 'double exposure' to climate processes and globalization, where industrialization, rapid urbanization, and agricultural intensification have led to water scarcity as the primary climate change concern.
• In the western border areas within the North American monsoon climate regime, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projects temperature increases of 2°C to 4°C by mid-century and 3°C to 5°C by 2100, alongside a potential precipitation decrease of 5% to 8%.
• Analysis of three cross-border collaboration cases in the Arizona-Sonora region identifies three key factors for increasing long-term resilience: shared social learning, the creation of binational 'communities of practice' among disaster relief planners and water managers, and the co-production of climate knowledge.

APA

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (2025). Adapting Across Boundaries: Climate Change, Social Learning, and Resilience in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region. https://iai.int/es/pub_acad/adapting-across-boundaries-climate-change-social-learning-and-resilience-in-the-u-s-mexico-border-region/

Chicago

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. Adapting Across Boundaries: Climate Change, Social Learning, and Resilience in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region. 2025. https://iai.int/es/pub_acad/adapting-across-boundaries-climate-change-social-learning-and-resilience-in-the-u-s-mexico-border-region/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{interamericaninstituteforglobalchangeresearch2025adapting, author = {{Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}}, title = {{Adapting Across Boundaries: Climate Change, Social Learning, and Resilience in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region}}, institution = {Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}, year = {2025}, month = jan, url = {https://iai.int/es/pub_acad/adapting-across-boundaries-climate-change-social-learning-and-resilience-in-the-u-s-mexico-border-region/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }