Development of a graphical resilience framework to understand a coupled human-natural system in a remote arid highland of Baja California Sur.

ABSTRACT: Hydrological systems are important to society as water resources and effective management requires an understanding of how water and humans influence each other. To describe human-water connections it is necessary to bridge social and natural sciences. To this end, we construct an interdisciplinary graphical framework for evaluating potential human-water system resilience, which is a tool to show the spatial and temporal response to system change of both human and natural systems. This helps to identify the ways that human responses to change relate to changing water resources and identifies important thresholds and potential disconnects that would create vulnerability. We further use this tool to describe a dynamic, coupled human-water system present in the arid Sierra de la Giganta regio

SUBMITTER: Lerback JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8894095 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature