Stephanie Buechler

• Professor
• Associate Research Professor at Pennsylvania State University

Este artículo tiene como objetivo caracterizar a la población de Ambos Nogales en función de sus opiniones sobre los impactos generados por el proyecto de ampliación y evaluación de proyectos de modernización del sistema de saneamiento transfronterizo durante el periodo 2000-2018, para identificar criterios de evaluación ex post que fortalezcan est...

This study uses energy justice (particularly, distributive and recognition as justice dimensions) to compare a rural and an urban population living near or receiving energy from a large-scale solar-wind energy park in Arizona, in the southwest United States. The authors found that climate change is shaping ways renewable energy is being used today...

Access to a variety of affordable and healthy food has been a critical component in sustainable food-system planning. Research on food accessibility and food deserts (low-income areas with no or limited access to healthy food) can have important policy implications for alleviating health disparities. In the existing food access literature, supermar...

Addressing wicked problems challenging water security requires participation from multiple stakeholders, often with conflicting visions, complicating the attainment of water-security goals and heightening the need for integrative and effective science-policy interfaces. Sustained multi- stakeholder dialogues within science-policy networks can impro...

This study combines the use of feminist political ecology and a water-energy-food nexus lens to analyze gender, age and social class in women's experiences with small-scale solar energy projects in urban and rural Arizona, USA and Zacatecas, Mexico. Unlike fossil fuels, renewable energy lends itself to more decentralized forms of production, offeri...

Women’s participation in large-scale mining (LSM) has been increasing in Mexico and worldwide; however, few comprehensive studies exist on the socioeconomic effects of mining on women depending on the specific roles they play in this activity. The objective of this study was to analyze, from a feminist political ecology perspective, the effects of...

Livelihoods in rural communities have become increasingly complex due to rapidly changing socio-economic and environmental forces, with differing impacts on and responses by female and male youth. This study contributes to feminist political ecology through an explicit focus on youth and an examination of the intersections of age and gender in educ...

This report summarizes the main approaches, data sources, procedures, and findings of a research project funded by the Next Generation Sonoran Desert Researchers (N-Gen) and developed between November 2017 and November 2018. The general research question guiding this project was: what are the types and scope of gendered impacts of mining in ecologi...

This article examines Central American women migrants’ decision-making and protective strategies while on the migrant trail. Through feminist research methodologies and social media networks shared by women migrants, this study addresses how physical and economic violence in Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala) contributes to women’s decisions to...

With the retreat of the state under neoliberalism, the lack of (or negligible) government and non-governmental support reasserts grassroots initiatives as a global-change strategy. A feminist political ecology approach and the concept of adverse inclusion were used to facilitate an analysis of social differences shaping local-level adaptive respons...

This synthesis article joins the authors of the special issue “Gender perspectives in resilience, vulnerability and adaptation to global environmental change” in a common reflective dialogue about the main contributions of their papers. In sum, here we reflect on links between gender and feminist approaches to research in adaptation and resilience...

Hydropower is often termed “green energy” and proffered as an alternative to polluting coal-generated electricity for burgeoning cities and energy-insecure rural areas. India is the third largest coal producer in the world; it is projected to be the largest coal consumer by 2050. In the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, India, over 450 hydroelectric...

Volume 16, Number 1, April 2017 Table of Contents Special Issue: Critical Geographies in Latin America Guest Editors: Anne-Marie Hanson and John C. Finn Critical Geographies in Latin America pp. 1-15 | DOI: 10.1353/lag.2017.0008 John C. Finn, Anne-Marie Hanson The Incorrigible Subject: Mobilizing a Critical Geography of (Latin) America through t...

In this chapter, I examine the role of feminist research methodologies I used across four research sites over three decades to develop collaborative research on the gendered effects of globalization and environmental change and their intersections. I focus on differences and similarities in the development of research collaborations in these four s...

This chapter uses the frames of feminist political ecology and socio-ecological systems to explore the creative tactics employed by dairy producers and women cheese makers to adapt to climate change and growing water scarcity in Rayón, a small community in Sonora, Mexico. The agricultural production and processing activities undertaken in this regi...

This edited volume explores how a feminist political ecology framework can bring fresh insights to the study of rural and urban livelihoods dependent on vulnerable rivers, lakes, watersheds, wetlands and coastal environments. Bringing together political ecologists and feminist scholars from multiple disciplines, the book develops solution-oriented...

This article describes ethnographic research involving street children and child labor in urban Honduras. It is set in a context of deteriorating social, political, and economic conditions that has created an increase in child labor. However, the research findings have delineated that a growing number of children are choosing to work and live on th...

In complex social-ecological systems, human and physical processes mutually condition one another through co-adaptation at multiple scales from the local to the global. For this paper we modified a driver-response conceptual model of social-ecological interactions by considering the degree to which each binary set of processes (human or physical) i...

This chapter calls for bringing a focus on local views of the future into studies on climate change and livelihoods. The chapter examines San Ignacio, Sonora, Mexico and utilizes ethnographic research on local views of the future to gain a better understanding of gendered ideas on social, economic and environmental aspects of sustainability in the...

This study focussed on how women and men agricultural processors in San Ignacio, Sonora envision their future in the context of environmental change and how each have incorporated their long-terms visions including non-capitalist visions, into present-day practices. The effects of these dynamics on social, economic and environmental sustainability...

The alternative visions of Sonoran women and men involved in home processing of agricultural products and the exchange of these goods within social networks are explored. The study focussed on how women and men processors in San Ignacio, Sonora envision their future in the context of environmental change and how they have incorporated their long-te...

A more rapid pace of change has been evident in San Ignacio, a community in Sonora, Mexico, near the border with the United States, for many years and in many different forms, including through globalization, livelihood transformations, and environmental degradation. Perhaps most worrying, the area is experiencing water resource pressures as well a...

Fruit production and processing is examined in a border community in Sonora, Mexico. The gender implications of water resource and climate change for this production and processing is analyzed, especially how social relations around this is structured and may be res-structured.

This article focuses on the sustainability of gendered agricultural income-generating activities in Sonora, near the Mexico-USA border, in the context of climate change. Farming, and fruit and vegetable home-processing enterprises, still predominate in the area. However, several types of fruits can no longer be produced in this area due to warmer t...

The gender dynamics of fruit and vegetable production and processing in San Ignacio, a peri-urban area of Magdalena, Mexico, are the focus of this applied research project. The cities of Magdalena and Nogales, in close proximity to the community studied, infl uenced the volume of water available for agriculture. Water scarcity and climate change ar...

This chapter attempts to understand and analyse the gender dimensions of urban and peri-urban agriculture in the case-study areas of Hyderabad, India. A number of households, especially migrants from drought-prone rural areas, depend on wastewater-irrigated urban or peri-urban agriculture for their livelihood and food security. Data have been colle...

Wastewater irrigation in the Kathmandu Valley is a widespread but poorly documented practice. This paper presents data from two case study sites, the Kirtipur and Bhaktapur municipalities of the Kathmandu Valley. An overview of existing urban wastewater disposal infrastructure, wastewater agriculture practices and quality of water used, the health...

Water is becoming degraded at an increasingly rapid rate, demanding complex, dynamic strategies tailored to local contexts. This study focused on innovative strategies by farmers to reduce risk and increase incomes. The surface and groundwater they used for irrigation was becoming degraded because of inflows of largely untreated urban domestic sewa...

Deteriorating surface water quality from poor sewage disposal, and lack of alternative water sources have resulted in partially diluted and sometimes untreated wastewater being used for local irrigation in urban, peri-urban and even rural agriculture by the poor. Un(der)employment, and a demand for fresh perishable food products by city dwellers ar...

This chapter examines women's roles in irrigated agriculture in Guanajuato, Mexico in an area with high male out-migration.

This book contains 16 chapters aiming to better understand urban waste water use in agriculture in developing countries (Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia), and detailed case study documentation of what works and what does not. It makes pragmatic recommendations aimed at protecting both the public health and farmers' income. This volu...

This paper analyses a decade of water sector reforms in Mexico with the specific purpose of drawing useful lessons for Indian water policy. Particularly after 1992, Mexico has implemented serious, comprehensive and far-reaching water sector reforms that required the government to create a new legal framework; restructure existing water administrati...

Gayathri Devi (g.devi@cgiar.org) This study focuses on landless and smallholder households who use wastewater generated from the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad in the drought-prone semi-arid tropics of Andhra Pradesh state, India for various livelihood activities, and the contribution of the wastewater to their food security. Three locat...

Research on immigrant women workers in the United States and Third World women employed by multinational corporations in export-enclaves has highlighted how global movements of capital and labor are expressed in changing labor processes, working conditions, and ethnic relations in the workplace. Notably absent from this body of literature are the w...

Research on immigrant women workers in the United States and Third World women employed by multinational corporations in export-enclaves has highlighted how global movements of capital and labor are expressed in changing labor processes, working conditions, and ethnic relations in the workplace. Notably absent from this body of literature are the w...