Climate and society in the US Southwest: the context for a regional assessment

Liverman, Diana; Merideth, Robert

doi:10.3354/cr021199

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“…As the exurban fringe continues to spread, more agricultural land is converted for residential development. Population growth also has the potential to cause future conflicts between urban and agricultural users of water, as the region experiences greater demands for water from cities (Liverman and Merideth 2002;MacDonald 2010). Conversely, there may be positive impacts associated with urbanization, including potential transition to higher value crops with proximity to local markets, and greater opportunities for off-farm employment and on-farm agritourism activities.…”

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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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“…Liverman and Merideth (2002) suggested that undocumented migrants in the Southwest could be disproportionately vulnerable to health impacts associated with climate change. They specifically described the vulnerability of colonias (rural settlements along the U.S.-Mexico border) to vector-borne diseases, including hanta virus, which has been linked to climate changes in the past.…”

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“…Concerning the Inuit in Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada (but applicable to communities worldwide), they suggested that the interaction between human communities and landscapes from local to global scales will shape climate change effects. Liverman and Merideth (2002) suggested that improved climate information could assist decisionmakers in addressing climate impacts and understanding how impacts could be socially differentiated. They focused on describing the relationship between society and climate in the Southwest to provide a frame for the regional climate assessment project-Climate Assessment for the Southwest.…”

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“…Shonkoff et al (2009) explored the vulnerability of low-income populations to extreme weather events and suggested that low-income populations are underinsured and therefore more at risk to the impacts of extreme weather events. Liverman and Merideth (2002) showed that the poor are often more vulnerable to extreme events such as drought because they have less access to financial or informational resources and lower or limited insurance coverage.…”

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“…Gamble et al (2008) Issues associated with access and proximity to information, resources, and services are raised in the literature on urban populations and the poor more generally. Liverman and Merideth (2002) suggested that inadequate housing, water supplies, and health care can also make the poor more vulnerable to vector-borne and waterborne diseases and other climate-related illnesses. Karl et al (2009) added that the very young, the elderly, and other vulnerable populations make up large proportions of rural communities in the Great Plains region.…”

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Evapotranspiration (ET) is a poorly constrained flux in the North American monsoon (NAM) region, leading to potential errors in land-atmosphere feedbacks. We quantified the spatiotemporal variations of ET using the Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) model, modified to account for soil evaporation (E soil ), irrigated agriculture, and the variability of land surface properties derived from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer during 2000-2012. Simulated ET patterns were compared to field observations at 59 eddy covariance towers, water balance estimates in nine basins, and six available gridded ET products. The modified VIC model performed well at eddy covariance towers representing the natural and agricultural land covers in the region. Simulations revealed that major sources of ET were forested mountain areas during the summer season and irrigated croplands at peak times of growth in the winter and summer, accounting for 22% and 9% of the annual ET, respectively. Over the NAM region, E soil was the largest component (60%) of annual ET, followed by plant transpiration (T, 32%) and evaporation of canopy interception (8%). E soil and T displayed different relationships with P in natural land covers, with E soil tending to peak earlier than T by up to 1 month, while only a weak correlation between ET and P was found in irrigated croplands. Based on the model performance, the VIC-based estimates are the most realistic to date for this region. Furthermore, spatiotemporal patterns reveal new information on the magnitudes, locations, and timing of ET in the North American monsoon region with implications on land-atmosphere feedbacks. Key Points:ET and its partitioning vary dramatically in space and time in the North American monsoon (NAM) region Major ET sources in the NAM region are mountain forests and irrigated agriculture ET estimates from the VIC model were compared with a range of observations and other products and found to be of good quality and superior to other products Supporting Information:Supporting Information S1

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Climate and society in the US Southwest: the context for a regional assessment

Cited by 38 publications

References 19 publications

Cascading impacts of climate change on southwestern US cropland agriculture

Cascading impacts of climate change on southwestern US cropland agriculture

Social vulnerability and climate change: synthesis of literature

Process‐based characterization of evapotranspiration sources over the North American monsoon region

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