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Landscape Connectivity and Wildlife Access to Water Across an International Border: Barriers and Opportunities for Facilitating Transboundary Movement. [PDF]
Glob Chang BiolThe construction of barriers along international borders is increasing globally, including along the boundary between the United States and Mexico. We used a landscape connectivity model to investigate the effects of barriers on wildlife access to water within the Lower Rio Grande Valley (Texas, USA) across three scenarios: (1) without border barriers;
Chivoiu B +13 more
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eBird Data Highlight Shifts in Wetland Resources Structuring Waterfowl and Shorebird Abundance. [PDF]
Ecol EvolWetland losses in the American West, driven by accelerated drying, overlapped multiple shorebird and waterfowl life histories. Trends were indicators of declining availability and increased uncertainty in waterbird habitat networks. Losses were pervasive in semi‐permanent wetlands, with 19%–48% reductions over the past two decades.
Donnelly JP +6 more
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Anxious Architecture: Sleep, Identity, and Death in the US-Mexico Borderlands
Footprint, 2017 The Mexico-US borderlands have been militarised by the technology, weaponry, and policies of both the American Border Patrol agency and Mexican cartels.
Sam Grabowska
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Gloria Anzaldúa’s Mexican Genealogy: From Pelados and Pachucos to New Mestizas
Genealogy, 2020 This essay examines Gloria Anzaldúa’s critical appropriation of two Mexican philosophers in the writing of Borderlands/La Frontera: Samuel Ramos and Octavio Paz.
Mariana Alessandri, Alexander Stehn
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Tourism and territorial structure in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
Investigaciones Geográficas, 2012 This paper deals with the issue of the territorial structure of tourism in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. To do this, the study is divided into two major parts: first, theoretical aspects, given support to our analysis, and a brief history of tourism in the ...
Oswaldo Gallegos, Alvarado López López
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Perception of danger in the southern Arizona borderlands
Fennia: International Journal of Geography, 2020 The mainstream paradigm of the US-Mexico borderlands is that the undocumented migrants are posing a serious threat to the area, yet who or what is actually in danger at the border and what is the danger?
Henrik Nielsen
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Land, 2022 Green belts are an urban planning approach meant to address urban sprawl and enhance resilience. Many Latin American cities located in arid lands would benefit from the green belt; however, little is known about the factors that determine green belt ...
Adriana A. Zuniga-Teran +10 more
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Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2012 José David Saldívar’s work, excerpted from Trans-Americanity: Subaltern Modernities, Global Coloniality, and the Cultures of Greater Mexico, focuses on Américo Paredes, whom he refers to as a “proto-Chicano.” Here he discusses Paredes’s columns written ...
José David Saldívar
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Aguas Broncas: The Regional Political Ecology of Water Conflict in the Mexico-U.S. Borderlands
Journal of Political Ecology, 2004 Since 1992 water scarcity in the Río Bravo/Rio Grande river basin has heightened tensions and conflicts among water users and politicians on both sides of the Mexico-U.S. border.
Casey Walsh
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« Trafiquant de drogue » : mirages et usages d’une catégorie sociale
Cahiers des Amériques Latines, 2019 As it may be the case with other social categories, that of the drug trafficker shows us what we want to see. What does it conceal in the Mexico - U.S. borderlands? What practices connected to the drug trade does this category help paper over? In regions
Sabine Guez
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