Margaret O Wilder

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• Wilder, M. O. (2010). Promises Under Construction: The Evolving Paradigm for Water Governance and the Case of Northern Mexico. Routledge.
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  Wilder, M. forthcoming 2011. Promises Under Construction: The Evolving Paradigm for Water Governance and the Case of Northern Mexico, in Alberto Garrido and Helen Ingram, eds., Water, Food, and Sustainability. London: Routledge.;
• Wilder, M. O. (2013). Acceso al agua urbana en una epoca de cambio climatico. In Desarrollo humano transfronterizo: retos y oportunidades en la region Sonora-Arizona(pp 253-268). Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico: El Colegio de Sonora.
• Wilder, M. O., Garfin, G. M., Ganster, P., Eakin, H., Lankao, P. R., Lara, A. C., Mumme, S. P., Neri, C., & Arriola, F. M. (2013). Impacts of Future Climate Change in the Southwest on Border Communities. In National Climate Assessment Southwest Region Report(pp 340-384). Washington, D.C.: Island Press.
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  I was invited to be the coordinating lead author on this chapter on the vulnerability of U.S.-Mexico border communities to climate change and impacts. The lead authors were encouraged to assemble a large and representative team of authors for each chapter, to be intentionally similar to an IPCC-style of expert report. Thus, this author team is large, with people from Arizona, Colorado, California, Baja California, and Mexico City. I was the primary author on this chapter with significant contribution from Gregg Garfin and targeted input from the other co-authors.
• Wilder, M. O., & Garfin, G. (2010). Drought Risk and Hazard. Sage Encyclopedia of Geography.
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  ;Your Role: First author;Full Citation: Wilder, M. and G.M. Garfin, 2010. Drought Risk and Hazard, in B. Warf (ed.) Sage Encyclopedia of Geography. Los Angeles/London: Sage Publications.;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;

Journals/Publications

• Lutz-Ley, A. N., Scott, C. A., Wilder, M. O., Ocampo-Melgar, A., Lara Valencia, F., Varady, R. G., Zuniga-Terán, A., Buechler, S., Díaz-Caravantes, R. E., Ribeiro-Neto, A., Pineda Pablos, N., & Martín, F. (2021). Dialogic science-policy networks for water security governance in the arid Americas. Environmental Development, N/A. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envdev.2020.100568
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  This is a culminating paper emanating from a multi-year, multi-investigator, and multi-region Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research Project (IAI) (funded by NSF) on water security in the arid Americas (CA Scott, PI, M Wilder and others, Co-PI). This paper on science-policy networks is led by Dr. América Lutz-Ley, a recent UA PhD (in Arid Lands) and current assistant professor at Colegio de Sonora (Mexico) with significant contributions from Chris Scott and Margaret Wilder
• Varady, R. G., Gerlak, A. K., Albrecht, T. R., Wilder, M. O., Mayer, B. M., Zuniga-Teran, A. A., Ernst, K. C., & Lemos, M. C. (2020). The exigencies of transboundary water security: Insights on community resilience. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 44, 74-84. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2020.06.005
• Varady, R. G., Pineda Pablos, N., Gerlak, A. K., & Wilder, M. O. (2020). New Directions in Hydrodiplomacy and Sustainable Water Governance at the Mexico-U.S. Border: Learning from the Past, Shaping the Future. Environmental Science and Policy.
• Wilder, M. O., Martinez-Austria, P., Hernandez Romero, P., & Cruz Ayala, M. B. (2020). The human right to water in Mexico: Challenges and opportunities. Water Alternatives, 13(1), 28-48.
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  This article culminates 4 years of research on this project, beginning with a small summer fellowship from the Puentes Consortium. In summer 2015, I initiated a collaborative project with Dr. Polioptro Martinez-Austria, former director of Mexico's National Water Technology Institute (Instituto Mexicano de la Tecnología de Agua, IMTA) and currently senior vice provost at Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, Mexico. I was a visiting scholar at his university in summer 2015.I wrote the proposal and complete initial drafts of the article, conducted the field research (with the assistance of grad research assistants at UA and in Puebla, whom we invited to be co-authors), and wrote the theoretical framing and literature review sections, as well as completed the data analysis and wrote the analysis and conclusion sections. My co-author, Dr. Martinez-Austria, contributed sections on the institutional context for water management in Mexico. I was corresponding author and handled the response to (3) external reviewers, after which the article was accepted. One reviewer called the article significant because "it is the first major study of the constitutional reform for a guaranteed human right to water" in Mexico.
• Wilder, M. O., Varady, R. G., Mumme, S. P., Gerlak, A. K., Flessa, K. W., Zuniga-Teran, A. A., Scott, C. A., Pineda Pablos, N., & Megdal, S. B. (2020). Hydrodiplomacy and adaptive governance at the US-Mexico border: 75 years of tradition and innovation in transboundary water management. Environmental Science and Policy, 112, 189-202.
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  Two articles grew out of a convening of major transboundary (US-Mexico) water governance scholars (Oct. 2018) of which I was one of two principal organizers. The purpose of the workshop was to assess the Treaty of 1944--a treaty that allocated the waters of the Colorado River, Tijuana River, and Rio Grande--between the US and Mexico. The workshop was held on the occasion of the Treaty's 75th anniversary, and looked retrospectively and prospectively at the treaty's impact as well as that of related institutions (such as the joint International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC), that is charged with managing transboundary resources between US and Mexico; part of the US State Department and Mexico's Foreign Relations Secretariat). The two articles are intended to be timely and significant interventions that bring together some of the leading regional scholars with career-long scholarship on these institutions and changing environmental governance between the two countries to provide a comprehensive assessment. Thus, we elected to write two "IPCC-like" publications co-authored by a group of scholars with long-term expertise on this topic.I am first author on both articles. One has been published in Science & Diplomacy (2019), a journal of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The first article argues that the US and Mexico have moved toward cooperation and collaboration on transboundary water resources governance, and away from conflict, over the last 75 years. The Environmental Science and Policy (ESP) article is the second of the two related, but distinct, articles. In this second article, we focus on adaptive water governance as the framework in which to understand how "hydrodiplomacy" (combining science and diplomacy to address transboundary water resources issues) has been effective during the past 75 years. We provide six detailed case studies of conflict, cooperation, and collaboration to develop this argument. Note that we have submitted the second article to a special issue on global hydrodiplomacy in transboundary contexts that I and three other co-authors are guest-editing. However, ESP's managing editor is handling the entire external peer review process for this article; the guest editors are not involved in soliciting the reviews or evaluating our manuscript.
• Wilder, M. O., Varady, R. G., Mumme, S. P., Gerlak, A. K., Pineda Pablos, N., & Scott, C. A. (2019). US-Mexico hydrodiplomacy: Foundations, change, and future challenges. Science & Diplomacy, 12/23/2019.
• Mumme, S. P., McEvoy, J., Pineda, N., & Wilder, M. O. (2017). Shipping water across the US-Mexico border: international governance dimensions of desalination for export. Water International, 77(3), 777-793. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2017.1373320
• Wilder, M. O. (2016). Festschrift issue honoring Helen Ingram. Journal of the Southwest. doi:DOI: 10.1353/jsw.2017.0000
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  I am the guest editor for a special Festschrift issue of Journal of the Southwest (spring/summer issue, 2017) honoring the contributions of Dr. Helen Ingram to water, environment, and policy scholarship over the course of her 50-year career. The special issue is unique, in that, in addition to several personal and professional essays directly addressing Helen's contributions, there will be 8-10 substantive, peer-reviewed research articles in the issue. These will be peer-reviewed by two expert reviewers and subject to revision and resubmission. I will not personally have a research article in this issue.Contributing to the issue are about 20 colleagues, friends, and mentees of Helen's, including well known water scholars such as Peter Gleick, Henry Vaux, and Steve Mumme.Helen is a longtime mentor, colleague, and friend, and I wanted to do this issue to honor her. Her work has been especially important in the American west and southwest, but she is also an internationally known scholar. Helen was a political scientist at UA, and was the founding director of the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy in 1986. After 10 or so years, she accepted an endowed chair in social ecology at UC-Irvine. She is now professor emerita at UCI and a research associate at the UA's Southwest Center (and lives back in Tucson).
• Wilder, M. O. (2017). Ways of Knowing : Helen Ingram and Water Scholarship. Journal of the Southwest, 59(1-2), 1-393.
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  Guest editor for book-length (393 pages) Festschrift issue of Journal of the Southwest dedicated to honoring the contributions of Helen Ingram to water scholarship. Special issue included 5 reflective essays, including one by me, and 13 peer-reviewed scholarly articles.
• Garfin, G. M., Merideth, R., & Wilder, M. O. (2016). Special issue on "Metrics: Assessment and Measurement of Water Security and Adaptive Capacity". Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 21, 1-96.
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  In Oct., 2014, I organized with GM Garfin, Bob Varady, and Chris Scott, an international workshop on the issue of Metrics--how to measure and assess water security and adaptive capacity in water governance, focused on the arid Americas. The workshop was funded by my NOAA SARP grant (Wilder PI, with Garfin/Varady as co-PIs) and IAI grant (Scott, PI and Wilder and others, co-PIs).As a direct outgrowth of the workshop, we decided to pursue a special issue in the journal Current opinion in Environmental sustainability on the topic of Metrics. I was lead guest editor and G Garfin co-guest editor. We developed a proposal for the special issue and received favorable comment from the editorial board; however, they wanted the issue focus to be global, not just on the Americas, and they wanted us to double the number of articles and contributors. Our team regrouped and developed new lists of contributors from other regions, then Gregg and I issued invitations. In about October 2015, we finally received approval to proceed with the special issue on Metrics. First drafts have been submitted, and the guest editors are in the process of sending them for peer review. Due to my stem cell transplants (Jan-Feb 2016), I stepped into a supporting role as guest editor, with Garfin as lead, and Robert Merideth kindly stepped in to assist. In spring 2016, I stepped back in as guest editor. I was the sole author on the introductory article and a major contributor to the conclusion article.
• Garfin, G. M., Scott, C. A., Wilder, M. O., Varady, R. G., & Merideth, R. (2016). Metrics for assessing adaptive capacity and water security: common challenges, diverging contexts, emerging consensus. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 21, 86-89. doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2016.11.007
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  Garfin, G.M., C.A. Scott, M. Wilder, R.G. Varady, R. Merideth. 2016. Metrics for assessing adaptive capacity and water security: Common challenges, diverging contexts, emerging consensus. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 21: 86-89, doi: 10.1016/j.cosust.2016.11.007.
• Garfin, G. M., Scott, C. A., Wilder, M. O., Varady, R. G., & Merideth, R. (2016). Metrics for assessing adaptive capacity: common challenges, diverging contexts, emerging consensus.. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 21(August), 86-89. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2016.11.007
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  Abstract:The rapid pace of climate and environmental changes requires some degree of adaptation, to forestall or avoid severe impacts. Adaptive capacity and water security are concepts used to guide the ways in which resource managers plan for and manage change. Yet the assessment of adaptive capacity and water security remains elusive, due to flaws in guiding concepts, paucity or inadequacy of data, and multiple difficulties in measuring the effectiveness of management prescriptions at scales relevant to decision-making. We draw on conceptual framings and empirical findings of the thirteen articles in this special issue and seek to respond to key questions with respect to metrics for the measurement, governance, information accessibility, and robustness of the knowledge produced in conjunction with ideas related to adaptive capacity and water security. Three overarching conclusions from this body of work are (a) systematic cross-comparisons of metrics, using the same models and indicators, are needed to validate the reliability of evaluation instruments for adaptive capacity and water security, (b) the robustness of metrics to applications across multiple scales of analysis can be enhanced by a ‘metrics plus’ approach that combines well-designed quantitative metrics with in-depth qualitative methods that provide rich context and local knowledge, and (c) changes in the governance of science–policy can address deficits in public participation, foster knowledge exchange, and encourage the co-development of adaptive processes and approaches (e.g., risk-based framing) that move beyond development and use of static indicators and metrics.
• Wilder, M. O. (2016). Metrics: Measurement and assessment of adaptive capacity and water security--Introduction to the special issue. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 21, 90-95. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2016.11.008
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  Introduction article for special issue on Metrics, of Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. Published online Nov. 2016 and in print Jan. 2017.
• Wilder, M. O., Aguilar Barajas, I., Pineda Pablos, N., Varady, R. G., Megdal, S. B., McEvoy, J., Scott, C. A., & Merideth, R. (2016). Desalination and water security in the U.S.-Mexico border region: The social, environmental, and political context. Water International, 41(5), 756-775. doi:10.1080/02508060.2016.1166416
• Wilder, M. O., Liverman, D. M., Bellante, L., & Osborne, T. N. (2016). Southwest climate gap: poverty and environmental justice in the U.S. southwest. Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability, 1-22. doi:10.1080/13549839.2015.1116063
• Wilder, M. O., Magrane, E., Miele, M., Prytherch, D., & Schein, R. (2015). AAG Review of Books Featured Book Review: The Power of Narrative in Environmental Networks. AAG Review of Books.
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  This is a featured book review in the AAG Review of Books (spring 2015). One of the co-authors is Eric Magrane, a graduate student in SGD. I organized the AAG panel, and this book review was done by invitation of the publication's editor. Two other co-authors incl: Mrill Ingram, and Helen Ingram--however, the format did not allow all the names.
• Diaz-Caravantes, R., & Wilder, M. O. (2014). Water, Climate Change, and Peri-Urban Vulnerabilities in Northwest Mexico. Water Alternatives.
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  ;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Full Citation: R. E. Diaz-Caravantes and M. Wilder. 2014. Water, Climate Change, and Peri-Urban Vulnerabilities in Northwest Mexico. Water Alternatives 7(3).
• Scott, C. A., F., M., Varady, R. G., Tiessen, H., J., M., Garfin, G. M., Wilder, M. O., L., F., N., P. P., & Montana, E. (2013). Water Security and Adaptive Management in the Arid Americas.. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 2(103), 280-289.
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  Article was accepted in 2012. Will be part of Annals' special issue on geographies of water.;Your Role: Contributing co-author ;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Co-authored with colleagues in Chile and Mexico.;
• Wilder, M. O. (2012). Exploring the Textured Landscape of Water Insecurity and the Human Right to Water.. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development.
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  ;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Full Citation: Gerlak, A. and M. Wilder. Exploring the Textured Landscape of Water Insecurity and the Human Right to Water. Submitted to Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development;Status: Published in 2012;
• Wilder, M. O. (2013). Barrio Libre: Criminalizing States and Delinquent Refusals of the New Frontier by Gilberto Rosas. Journal of Latin American Geography, 12(3), 230-232.
• McEvoy, J., McEvoy, J., Wilder, M. O., & Wilder, M. O. (2012). Discourse and Desalination: Potential Impacts of Proposed Climate Change Adaptation Interventions in the Arizona-Sonora Border Region. Global Environmental Change, 22(2), 353-363.
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  Your Role: I was second author, working with my PhD student, Jamie McEvoy. The empirical work was based on research on my NOAA SARP project. She participated in a workshop at U Michigan and we were invited to submit an article to a special issue that emerged from the workshop. The article was blind peer-reviewed.Full Citation: McEvoy, J. and M. Wilder, 2012. Discourse and Desalination: Potential Impacts of Proposed Climate Change Adaptation Interventions in the Arizona-Sonora Border Region. Global Environmental Change 22 (2) (May 2012): 353-363. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.11.001.Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;
• Wilder, M. O., , A. G., & , M. W. (2012). Exploring the Textured Landscape of Water Insecurity and the Human Right to Water. Environment.
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  Our article was the featured cover article.;Your Role: Of of two co-authors. Responsible for 50 % of writing.;Full Citation: Gerlak, A. and M. Wilder, 2012. Exploring the Textured Landscape of Water Insecurity and the Human Right to Water. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 54:2, 4-17 (cover article)http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00139157.2012.657125;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;
• Wilder, M. O., Varady, R. G., C.A., S., B., M., & G.M., G. (2012). Transboundary adaptive management to reduce climate-change vulnerability in the western U.S.-Mexico border region. Environmental Science and Policy.
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  ;Your Role: I contributed substantially both to the conceptualization and framing of the article and to the writing.;Full Citation: Varady, R.G., C.A. Scott, M. Wilder, B. Morehouse, N. Pineda Pablos, and G.M. Garfin, 2012. Transboundary adaptive management to reduce climate-change vulnerability in the western U.S.-Mexico border region. Environ. Sci. Policy (2012), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2012.07.006;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Co-authored with colleague at El Colegio de Sonora.;
• Wilder, M. O. (2010). Water governance in Mexico: political and economic apertures and a shifting state-citizen relationship. Ecology and Society.
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  ;Full Citation: Wilder, M. 2010. Water governance in Mexico: political and economic apertures and a shifting state-citizen relationship. Ecology and Society 15(2): 22. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol15/iss2/art22/;
• Wilder, M. O., , C. S., , R. V., , N. P., , G. G., & , J. M. (2010). Adapting Across Boundaries: Knowledge, Social Learning and Resilience in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region. Annals of the Association of American Geographers.
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  Scholarly journal published by the Association of American Geographers (AAG);Your Role: Lead and primary author;Full Citation: Wilder, M., C.A. Scott, R. Varady, N. Pineda, G.M. Garfin, and J. McEvoy. Forthcoming October 2010. Adapting Across Boundaries: Knowledge, Social Learning and Resilience in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 100 (4): 1-12.;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: One co-author is a professor of political science and public policy at El Colegio de Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico.;

Presentations

• Wilder, M. O. (2018, August 9-10). Climate Change and Border Communities. Border Legislative Council Annual Meeting. Santa Fe: Border Legislative Council.
• Wilder, M. O., & Schur, E. (2018, November 12). Climate extremes and climate justice: The case of New Mexico. Udall-UMI Human challenges in extreme environments workshop. UA: Udall Center and UMI.
• Wilder, M. O., Pineda, N., Varady, R., Scott, C., & Zuñiga, A. (2018, October 15-16). Binational water relations at 75 years: Retrospectives, resilience and US-Mexico border water resources governance. Binational water relations at 75 years: Retrospectives, resilience and US-Mexico border water resources governance. UA: Udall Center (IAI and Lloyd's Register Foundation Int'l Water Security Network).
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  This was a binational workshop with 25 border scholars to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the binational water Treaty of 1944 and the 25th anniversary of NAFTA, and to reflect upon the evolution and meaning of these agreements in the 21st century. All of the people listed were the principal organizers of the event and chaired sessions.
• Wilder, M. O. (2017, November 6). The Challenges of Metrics for Water Governance: Shaping an Equitable Future.. UMI-Udall Frameworks of Resilience & Complexity Workshop. Tucson. University of Arizona: UMI-Udall Center.
• Wilder, M. O. (2017, September). The Border Wall and Environmental Impacts. LAS Charlas Series (colloquium). University of Arizona: Center for Latin American Studies.
• Wilder, M. O., & Peralta, Y. (2017, May). Energy poverty in the Southwest and Border Region. Symposium on Energy Poverty and the US-Mexico Border. Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico: El Colegio de Sonora.
• Peralta, Y. A., & Wilder, M. O. (2016, 04-2016). Community versus Commodity: the Struggle of Small-scale producers in the Yaqui Valley. American Assoc. of Geographers Annual Meeting 2016. San Francisco, CA: AAG.
• Wilder, M. O. (2014, April). Authors-Meet-Critics session: The Power of Narrative in Environmental Networks. Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting. Tampa, FL: AAG.
• Wilder, M. O. (2014, April). Climate Vulnerability, Low-Income Communities, and Environmental Justice at the U.S.-Mexico Border. Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting. Tampa, FL: AAG.
• Wilder, M. O. (2014, April). Invited Panelist. Development Geographies: Scales, Directions, Visions. Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting. Tampa, FL: Development Geographies Specialty Group, AAG.
• Wilder, M. O. (2014, February 20). Water Governance at the U.S.-Mexico Border: Shared Waters, Shared Scarcity. Invited Lecture, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Milwaukee, WI: Ctr. for Latin American, Caribbean, and School of Freshwater Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
• Wilder, M. O. (2014, February 21). Water Governance at the U.S.-Mexico Border: Shared Waters, Shared Scarcity. Invited Lecture, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, WI: Latin American, Caribbean, and Human Rights Centers, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Wilder, M. O. (2014, March 21). Environmental cooperation at the U.S.-Mexico border: Geopolitical e cologies of shared waters, shared scarcity. Model United Nations High School Conference for Arizona-Sonora. UA Student Union, Tucson: Model United Nations, University of Arizona.
• Garfin, G. M., Quijada-Mascarenas, A., Wilder, M. O., & Varady, R. G. (2013, January). Transborder Climate and Experiments in Climate Communication: Building a Foundation for Adaptation. 93rd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting. Austin, TX.
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  In recent years, U.S.-Mexico border region stakeholders have consistently articulated needs for climate services to provide information, enhance preparedness, and better inform resource management decisions. We report on a NOAA-funded initiative in the U.S.-Mexico border region to not only provide information, but to build capacity for adaptation. The initiative augments the Border Climate Summary/Resumen del Clima de la Frontera PDF newsletter, through experiments in climate communication. We focus on Transborder Climate, a brief bulletin that gives a high-level overview of climate forecasts and research. We also report on experiments in the use of bilingual webinars and social media to increase knowledge exchange and build a foundation for adaptation to climate change. These experiments are being conducted by a consortium of collaborators from University of Arizona, UNISON, CIBNOR, CICESE, and the Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative. We report on the early stages of these experiments and the methods and metrics for evaluating the use of these media and their value to border region decision makers.
• Wilder, M. O. (2013, December 10). Integrated Climate Vulnerability Assessments in U.S.-Mexico Border Region. Livestreamed video presentation to National Water Commission staff, Mexico. Mexico, D.F.: Mexico's National Water Commission.
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  I was invited by Mexico's National Water Commission to present a livestreamed (to their regional offices) presentation on our NOAA research on climate-related vulnerability in the urban water sector in the US-Mexico border region. After my presentation, there was a 30 minute interactive videoconference, Q and A.
• Wilder, M. O. (2013, September 21). Climate and Health in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region. Climate Smart Southwest Conference. Tucson Convention Center: Physicians for Social Responsibility.
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  Invited to lead and organize a panel of presenters to discuss climate and health in the U.S.-Mexico border region
• Wilder, M. O., & na, . (2012, 2012-05-01). AQUASEC Launch: Water Security in the Arid Americas. Adaptation Futures. UA.
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  ;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Wilder, M. O., & na, . (2012, 2012-05-01). Overview of Impacts of Climate Change on U.S.-Mexico Border Region. Perspectives from Ground Zero: Overview of the National Climate Assessment Southwest Region Technical Report. Adaptation Futures. UA.
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  ;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Panel Discussant (Reporting Research);
• Wilder, M. O., & na, . (2012, 2012-10-01). UNDERSTANDING WATER: HUMAN RIGHTS AND CLIMATE VARIABILITY AT THE MEXICO-U.S. BORDER. Honors College Luncheon. UA Student Union.
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  Invited speaker, UA Honors College Luncheon, Oct. 2012;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: University;
• Wilder, M. O., , J. C., , S. K., , H. B., , S. M., , M. W., , R. V., , G. G., & Vásquez-LeĂł, M. (2012, 2012-05-01). New Directions in Adaptive Capacity and Resilience in Arid Regions. Adaptation Futures. UA.
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  ;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Type of Presentation: Poster;
• Wilder, M. O., , M. W., , G. G., Pablos, N. P., , R. V., , C. S., Vásquez-LeĂłn, M., , J. C., , S. K., , H. B., , A. Q., & , S. M. (2012, 2012-03-01). Building Adaptive Capacity for Water Management in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region: Scientist-Stakeholder Collaboration To Achieve Socioecological Resilience. IHDP Planet Under Pressure. London.
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  ;Your Role: Lead and primary author;Refereed: Yes;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Wilder, M. O., , M. W., , R. V., , J. C., & , S. K. (2012, 2012-05-01). Unpacking the Adaptation Deficit: Key Indicators of Capacity-Building in Water Management in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region. Adaptation Futures. UA.
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  ;Your Role: Lead author.;Refereed: Yes;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Wilder, M. O. (2011, 2011-02-01). Socioeconomic Vulnerability and Water Security Challenges in the Arid Americas.. AQUASEC Water Security in the Arid Americas. San Jose del Cabo, BCS, Mexico.
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  ;Type of Presentation: Invited/Plenary Speaker;
• Wilder, M. O. (2011, 2011-03-01). Whose Water is It? Privatization and Decentralization in Mexico & Bolivia. Title VIA Directors' Meeting. Tucson.
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  ;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Invited/Plenary Speaker;
• Wilder, M. O. (2011, 2011-04-01). , Climate & Development: Strengthening the Links Between the Sectors. AAG. Seattle, WA.
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  Invited panelist;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Panel Discussant (Reporting Research);
• Wilder, M. O. (2011, 2011-04-01). Human-Environment Interactions in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. AAG. Seattle, WA.
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  Invited panelist;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Panel Discussant (Reporting Research);
• Wilder, M. O. (2011, 2011-04-01). on the Edge: Water Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity at the U.S.-Mexico Border. AAG. Seattle, WA.
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  ;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Wilder, M. O. (2011, 2011-06-01). Transboundary Water Management: goals, challenges, and the role of collaboration. Seminar on Water and Land: governance and rights.. El Colegio de Mexico Seminar on Water and Land: governance and rights. El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico, D.F..
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  ;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Invited/Plenary Speaker;
• Wilder, M. O. (2011, 2011-10-01). Managing Demand and Rethinking Supply: Adaptation, Conservation, and Planning in the Drought-prone Southwestern United States and Northwest Mexico. NOAA-Climate-Society Interactions (CSI) Project Launch Workshop, Institute of the Environment, University of Arizona. Tucson.
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  Public Launch of newly-funded NOAA Climate Societal Interactions Workshop;Type of Presentation: Community Outreach;
• Wilder, M. O., Liverman, W., Osborne, ., & Bellante, . (2011, 2011-04-01). Making the Connection: Climate, Poverty & Food in the Southwestern U.S.. UA College of Public Health. Tucson.
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  ;Your Role: Lead author;Submitted: Yes;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Type of Presentation: Community Outreach;
• Wilder, M., D.M., L., & , L. B. (2011, 2011-10-01). Climate Vulnerability and the Energy/Health/Poverty Nexus in the U.S. Southwest. InClueSEV, Transatlatlantic Workshop on Energy and Poverty,. Durham, No. Carolina.
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  ;Your Role: Lead author and PI on research grant;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Invited/Plenary Speaker;
• Wilder, M. O. (2010, 2010-10-01). Water and Climate CHANGE IN BORDER CITIES: BINATIONAL COLLABORATION TOWARD ADAPTIVE GOVERNANCE. Urbanization and Global Environmental Change (UGEC). Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
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  ;Submitted: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Wilder, M. O. (2010, 2011-03-01). Research, Networks, and Collaboration: Shaping Governance Strategies for the Colorado Delta. Toward a Sustainable 21st Century: Marine Conservation, Law and Governance--Mexico's Northwest Coast.. Newkirk Center, University of California.
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  Wilder, M. 2010. Research, Networks, and Collaboration: Shaping GovernanceStrategies for the Colorado Delta. Invited presentation at Toward a Sustainable21st Century: Marine Conservation, Law and Governance--Mexico's Northwest Coast.Newkirk Center, University of California, Irvine, May 14, 2010. Invited speaker;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Invited/Plenary Speaker;
• Wilder, M. O., & Slack, J. (2010, 2010-09-01). Ambos Nogales: Water, Vulnerability, and Institutional Complexity. Arizona Hydrological Society (AHS) Annual Symposium. Tucson, AZ.
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  ;Your Role: Lead author.;Submitted: Yes;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Wilder, M. O., Scott, C., Pineda, N., Garfin, G., Varady, R., McEvoy, J., & Slack, J. (2010, 2010-10-01). Water and Vulnerability: Building Adaptive Capacity in Urban Areas of the U.S.-Mexico Border. International Human Dimensions of Global Change (IHDP) Global Land Use Project. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
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  ;Your Role: Lead author.;Submitted: Yes;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Includes collaboration with colleague Nicolas Pineda at El Colegio de Sonora, Hermosillo, Son., Mexico.;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;

Creative Productions

• Wilder, M. O. (2019. Rep. Raúl Grijalva Video on the Border Wall. Rep. Grijalva's Congressional Office and Twitter account. Online video clip (about 7 mins.): Rep. Grijalva's Congressional Office. https://mobile.twitter.com/RepRaulGrijalva/status/1173671155846320135
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  I was asked to appear in this video created by Rep. Raúl Grijalva's staff and shared by Congressman Grijalva on Twitter (I don't know if it was posted elsewhere as well). Grijalva is the Chair of the House Natural Resources Committee. The video as of today had about 13.6K views.I am one of 4 or so speakers, and "appear" at about 4:00 minutes in and 5:55 minutes in.

Others

• Wilder, M. O. (2019, May). Arizonans renters need protection from the heat. Arizona Daily Star. https://tucson.com/opinion/local/margaret-wilder-arizonans-renters-need-protection-from-the-heat/article_ce61924b-6b3a-508b-ac1b-a94b4dd8f436.html
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  Op-Ed assessing proposed state legislative restrictions on Arizona cities and analyzing impacts on renters
• Lara-Valencia, F., & Wilder, M. O. (2018, June 28). Jump it, climb it, dig it for the environment: Meddling with Trump’s border wall.. Journal of Latin American Geography. https://clagscholar.org/jlag-perspectives-forum-the-border-wall-and-beyond-political-and-environmental-perspectives/
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  Francisco Lara and I co-authored one essay for the JLAG Perspectives Forum on the border wall (3rd essay)
• Wilder, M. O. (2018, December). Exploring the Ecosystem of the U.S.–Mexico Border. Scientific American. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/exploring-the-ecosystem-of-the-u-s-mexico-border/
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  Op-Ed assessing the environmental impacts of the border wall
• Wilder, M. O. (2018, June 28). Border Wall and Beyond: Political and Environmental Perspectives. Journal of Latin American Geography. https://clagscholar.org/jlag-perspectives-forum-the-border-wall-and-beyond-political-and-environmental-perspectives/
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  The editor of the Journal of Latin American Geography invited me to edit the essays presented in two AAG sessions I organized in a special section of JLAG's Perspectives Forum on the border wall.
• Roach, M., Brown, H., Wilder, M. O., Smith, G. R., Chambers, S., Ruby, Q., & Patten, I. E. (2017, November). Assessment of Climate and Health Impacts on Vector-Borne Diseases and Valley Fever in Arizona: Building Resilience Against Climate Effects(BRACE)--Vulnerability Assessment 2017. Arizona Departrment of Health Services website. http://azdhs.gov/documents/preparedness/epidemiology-disease-control/extreme-weather/pubs/assessment-of-climate-and-health-impacts.pdf
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  A report based on contract with AZ Dept of Health Services, BRACE Program, on climate and vulnerability to vector-borne diseases. My role was: Coordinating Lead Author.
• Wilder, M. O. (2017, July). Helen Ingram, Mentor and Colleague—an Introduction to the Festschrift.. Journal of the Southwest. http://10.1353/jsw.2017.0000
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  This is the introductory essay I wrote for the Festschrift special issue of Journal of the Southwest dedicated to Helen Ingram. It is not a peer-reviewed article.
• Wilder, M. O. (2012). Fragile Binaries and Hard Grids: Water, Poverty and Climate at the U.S.-Mexico Border.
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  ;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Full Citation: Wilder, M. and J. Slack. Fragile Binaries and Hard Grids: Water, Poverty and Climate at the U.S.-Mexico Border. For submission to Environment and Planning C.;Status: Paper in Preparation;
• Wilder, M. O. (2012, January). Urban Water Vulnerability and Institutional Challenges in Ambos Nogales.. http://udallcenter.arizona.edu/sarp/pdf/Ch2_AmbosNogales.pdf
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  Chapter Two in edited casebook volume (not refereed)published online in a Udall Center working series in 2011 and in printed 'casebook' in 2012.;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Full Citation: Wilder, M., J. Slack, R. G. Varady, C.A. Scott, A. Prichard, B. Morehouse, E. McGovern, O. Lai, and R. Beaty. Urban Water Vulnerability and Institutional Challenges in Ambos Nogales. Chapter Two in Wilder, M., C. Scott, N. Pineda, R. Varady, and G. Garfin, eds. Moving Forward from Vulnerability to Adaptation: Climate Change, Drought, and Water Demand in the Urbanizing Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico. Tucson: Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, University of Arizona.;
• Wilder, M. O. (2012, January). Hermosillo, ciudad sin agua para crecer. Vulnerabilidad hidrica y retos frente al cambio climático. http://udallcenter.arizona.edu/sarp/pdf/Ch5_Hermosillo.pdf
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  Chapter Four in edited casebook volume (not refereed)published online in a Udall Center working series in 2011 and in printed 'casebook' in 2012.;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Please specify if you select "Other collaborative" : Dr. Nicolas Pineda Pablos, El Colegio de Sonora, was lead author.;Full Citation: N. Pineda-Pablos, C. A. Scott, M. Wilder, A. Salazar-Adams, Rolando Díaz-Caravantes, L. Brito, C. Watts, J. L. Moreno, L. Oroz, and C. Neri. Hermosillo, ciudad sin agua para crecer. Vulnerabilidad hídrica y retos frente al cambio climático. Chapter Five in Wilder, M., C. Scott, N. Pineda, R. Varady, and G. Garfin, eds. Moving Forward from Vulnerability to Adaptation: Climate Change, Drought, and Water Demand in the Urbanizing Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico. Tucson: Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, University of Arizona. ;Status: Paper in Preparation;
• Wilder, M. O. (2012, January). Introduction: Moving Forward from Vulnerability to Adaptation: Theory, Methodology, and Context.. http://udallcenter.arizona.edu/sarp/pdf/Ch1_Introduction.pdf
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  Chapter One in edited casebook volume (not refereed)published online in a Udall Center working series in 2011 and in printed 'casebook' in 2012.;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Full Citation: Wilder, M., R. G. Varady, and G. M. Garfin. Introduction: Moving Forward from Vulnerability to Adaptation: Theory, Methodology, and Context. Chapter One in Wilder, M., C. Scott, N. Pineda, R. Varady, and G. Garfin, eds. 2012. Moving Forward from Vulnerability to Adaptation: Climate Change, Drought, and Water Demand in the Urbanizing Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico. Tucson: Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, University of Arizona.;Status: Paper in Preparation;
• Wilder, M. O. (2012, January). Water and Urban Development: Coastal Vulnerability in Puerto Penasco. http://udallcenter.arizona.edu/sarp/pdf/Ch3_PuertoPenasco.pdf
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  Chapter Three in edited casebook volume (not refereed)published online in a Udall Center working series in 2011 and in printed 'casebook' in 2012.;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Full Citation: Wilder, M., J. McEvoy, G. M. Garfin, R. Beaty, and E. McGovern. Water and Urban Development: Coastal Vulnerability in Puerto Penasco. Chapter Three in Wilder, M., C. Scott, N. Pineda, R. Varady, and G. Garfin, eds. Moving Forward from Vulnerability to Adaptation: Climate Change, Drought, and Water Demand in the Urbanizing Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico. Tucson: Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, University of Arizona.;Status: Paper in Preparation;
• Wilder, M., C., S., R., V., & , G. G. (2012). Moving Forward from Vulnerability to Adaptation: Climate Change, Drought, and Water Demand in the Urbanizing Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico..
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  This was a 'casebook' of case studies from our NOAA SARP project included in our electronic Working Paper Series on water and climate in the US-Mexico Border Region. We are currently distilling the casebook into an article for submission.;Your Role: Lead author and editor.;Full Citation: Wilder, M., C. Scott, N. Pineda, R. Varady, and G. Garfin, eds. 2012. Moving Forward from Vulnerability to Adaptation: Climate Change, Drought, and Water Demand in the Urbanizing Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico. Tucson: Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, University of Arizona. Print version and downloadable pdf at: http://udallcenter.arizona.edu/sarp/index.php;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Mexican colleagues at several institutions.;
• Wilder, M., G., G. P., H., E., F., L., S., M., & F., M. (2013, May). Impacts of Future Climate Change in the Southwest on Border Communities.
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  I was invited to be the lead author on this chapter of the Southwest Region's technical report, part of the National Climate Assessment process mandated by Congress to be completed every 4 years. This was the first time the border region was included. I assembled the team of authors. The Report went through vigorous peer review and public review in an IPCC-like process of review.;Your Role: I was invited to be the lead author on this chapter, part of the National Climate Assessment's regional process.;Full Citation: Wilder, M., G. Garfin, P.Ganster, H. Eakin, P. Romero-Lankao, F. Lara-Valencia, A. Cortez-Lara, S. Mumme, C. Neri, and F. Muñoz-Arriola, 2012. Impacts of Future Climate Change in the Southwest on Border Communities. Chapter 16 in National Climate Assessment Southwest Region Report. Washington, D.C.: National Climate Assessment. (Also, forthcoming as a chapter in a volume to be published by Island Press).;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Co-authors included several from U.S. and Mexican institutions.;
• Wilder, M., J., M., & , N. P. (2012). Desalination Technology in a Binational Context: Systemic Implications for Water, Energy, and Environment in the Arizona-Sonora portion of the U.S.-Mexico Border.
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  We were invited to submit this paper which was selected for a monetary award from the Puentes Consortium (consortium of US-Mexico border institutions) based on a review of the abstracts. Although it is not a published paper, it was peer-reviewed prior to final acceptance. The second author and I were invited to present the paper at the Puentes symposium at Rice University. We currently plan to turn the paper into a publishale article.;Your Role: Lead author.;Full Citation: Wilder, M., I. Aguilar Barajas; J. McEvoy, R. Varady, S. Megdal, C. Scott , and N. Pineda, forthcoming 2012. Desalination Technology in a Binational Context: Systemic Implications for Water, Energy, and Environment in the Arizona-Sonora portion of the U.S.-Mexico Border. Puentes Consortium, Selected Paper. Houston: Rice University.;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;
• Wilder, M., J., M., R., B., & , E. M. (2012, Sept.). Water and Urban Development: Coastal Vulnerability in Puerto Penasco.
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  ;Your Role: Lead author;Full Citation: Wilder, M., J. McEvoy, G. M. Garfin, R. Beaty, and E. McGovern, 2012. Water and Urban Development: Coastal Vulnerability in Puerto Peñasco. Chapter Three in Wilder, M., C. Scott, N. Pineda, R. Varady, and G. Garfin, eds. 2012. Moving Forward from Vulnerability to Adaptation: Climate Change, Drought, and Water Demand in the Urbanizing Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico. Tucson: Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, University of Arizona.;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;
• Wilder, M., J., S., C.A., S., B., M., O., L., , R. B., & ,, . (2012). Urban Water Vulnerability and Institutional Challenges in Ambos Nogales..
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  ;Your Role: Lead author;Full Citation: Wilder, M., J. Slack, R. G. Varady, C.A. Scott, A. Prichard, B. Morehouse, E. McGovern, O. Lai, and R. Beaty, 2012. Urban Water Vulnerability and Institutional Challenges in Ambos Nogales. Chapter Two in Wilder, M., C. Scott, N. Pineda, R. Varady, and G. Garfin, eds. 2012. Moving Forward from Vulnerability to Adaptation: Climate Change, Drought, and Water Demand in the Urbanizing Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico. Tucson: Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, University of Arizona.;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Mexican colleague.;
• Wilder, M., R., G. V., Garfin, G. M., & ,, . (2012). Introduction: Moving Forward from Vulnerability to Adaptation: Theory, Methodology, and Context..
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  ;Your Role: Lead author of this Introduction and edited 'casebook' published by Udall Center with funding from Dean Joaquin Ruiz, as part of the UA-UNAM Binational Drylands Consortium.;Full Citation: Wilder, M., R. G. Varady, and G. M. Garfin, 2012. Introduction: Moving Forward from Vulnerability to Adaptation: Theory, Methodology, and Context. Chapter One in Wilder, M., C. Scott, N. Pineda, R. Varady, and G. Garfin, eds. 2012. Moving Forward from Vulnerability to Adaptation: Climate Change, Drought, and Water Demand in the Urbanizing Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico. Tucson: Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, University of Arizona.;Electronic: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;