A comparative assessment of climate vulnerability: agriculture and ranching on both sides of the US–Mexico border

Vásquez-León, Marcela; West, Colin Thor; Finan, Timothy J.

doi:10.1016/s0959-3780(03)00034-7

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“…[WGII 14.4.4] The vulnerability of North American agriculture to climatic change is multidimensional and is determined by interactions between pre-existing conditions, indirect stresses stemming from climate change (e.g., changes in pest competition, water availability), and the sector's capacity to cope with multiple, interacting factors, including economic competition from other regions as well as improvements in crop cultivars and farm management . Water availability is the major factor limiting agriculture in south-east Arizona, but farmers in the region perceive that technologies and adaptations such as crop insurance have recently decreased vulnerability (Vasquez-Leon et al, 2003). Areas with marginal financial and resource endowments (e.g., the US northern plains) are especially vulnerable to climate change (Antle et al, 2004).…”

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Resistance and Resilience of A Stream Salamander To Supraseasonal Drought

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Resistance and Resilience of A Stream Salamander To Supraseasonal Drought

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“…In these first two counties, we narrow down to the production of specific commodities that dominate county income (tart cherries and pecans) to demonstrate the role of institutional factors. Cochise County ranks sixth in Arizona for crop sales, but was selected as an example because it is one of the few locations in the Southwest where there has been research specifically on contextual vulnerability of agricultural communities that highlights the importance of capital assets and institutional factors (Vasquez-Leon et al 2003;Vasquez-Leon 2009). These snapshots are not full vulnerability assessments and the examples given here comprise necessarily incomplete contextual analysis.…”

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Cascading impacts of climate change on southwestern US cropland agriculture

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The interior southwest United States is one of the hottest, driest regions on the planet, yet irrigated cropland agriculture is successfully practiced where there is access to surface water and/or groundwater. Through climate change, the southwest is projected to become even hotter and drier, increasing the challenges faced by farmers across the region. We can assess the vulnerability of cropland agriculture, to assist in developing potential solutions to these challenges of warming temperatures and water scarcity. However, these types of biophysical vulnerability assessment usually generate technological or policy-level solutions that do not necessarily account for farmers' ability to respond to climate change impacts. Further, there are non-climatic factors that also threaten the future of agriculture in the region, such as population increase, loss of agricultural land, and increasing competition for depleting water resources. In this paper, we assert that to fully address how southwestern farmers may Climatic Change (2018) 148:437-450 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-018-2220-

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“…Several studies have incorporated the SL approach for assessing vulnerability (Vasquez-Leon et al 2003;Eakin and Bojorequez-Tapia 2008;Li et al 2013;Gautam et al 2013). The SL framework helps identify the sensitivity of assets, entitlements, and critical assets for coping with and adapting to risks while linking livelihood strategies to opportunities and constraints of the broader institutional and biophysical environment (Kelly and Adger 2000;Eakin and Luers 2006).…”

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Livelihood vulnerability assessment to climate variability and change using fuzzy cognitive mapping approach

Singh

Nair

2014

Climatic Change

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Existing studies in the context of assessing vulnerability to climate variability and change delineate, rather inadequately, interconnected interactions occurring within the climate-human-environment interaction space. Besides, studies documenting stakeholders' perceptions regarding climate change induced vulnerabilities are limited in terms of providing indicators for decision-making. This paper aims at constructing a livelihood vulnerability index for climate variability and change capturing interconnected interactions based on peoples' perceptions while providing indicators for evidence based decision-making. A semi-quantitative fuzzy cognitive mapping (FCM) approach has been deployed to capture peoples' perceptions of climate induced perturbations and adaptations. This approach helps quantify stakeholders' perspectives while capturing interconnected interactions in order to estimate livelihood vulnerability to climate variability and change of poor agro-pastoralists in the Bhilwara, a district in Western India. Combining the FCM approach with a sustainable livelihood framework warrants an understanding of assets sensitive to climate variability and change along with those serving as adaptive capacities. The findings of this study confirm that financial and natural assets are most susceptible to harm while organisational and financial assets provide resilience against climate variability and change. The results suggest that livelihood vulnerability of agropastoralists lie in the range of being 'vulnerable' to climate variability and change while varying across three seasons summer, winter, and rainfall.

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A comparative assessment of climate vulnerability: agriculture and ranching on both sides of the US–Mexico border

Cited by 106 publications

References 16 publications

Resistance and Resilience of A Stream Salamander To Supraseasonal Drought

Resistance and Resilience of A Stream Salamander To Supraseasonal Drought

Cascading impacts of climate change on southwestern US cropland agriculture

Livelihood vulnerability assessment to climate variability and change using fuzzy cognitive mapping approach

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