Adaptive governance strategies to address wildfire and watershed resilience in New Mexico's upper Rio Grande watershed

IF 3.3 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Melinda Morgan, A. Webster, M. Piccarello, Kelly W. Jones, Janie M. Chermak, Laura McCarthy, Jaishri Srinivasan
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Global climate models project that New Mexico's Upper Rio Grande watershed is expected to become more arid and experience greater climatic and hydrological extremes in the next 50 years. The resulting transitions will have dramatic implications for downstream water users. The Upper Rio Grande and its tributaries provide water to about half of New Mexico's population, including the downstream communities of Albuquerque and Santa Fe, and surrounding agricultural areas. In the absence of formal climate adaptation strategies, informal governance arrangements are emerging to facilitate watershed climate adaptation strategies, including fuel treatments and stream remediation. One example is the Rio Grande Water Fund (RGWF), a collaborative effort coordinating work to protect storage, delivery, and quality of Rio Grande water through landscape-scale forest restoration treatments in tributary forested watersheds. This article examines the RGWF as one example of an emerging adaptation strategy that is working within—and beyond—existing legal and policy frameworks to accomplish more collaborative efforts across jurisdictional lines and administrative barriers. We identified ten (10) key characteristics of adaptive governance from the relevant literature and then applied them to the RGWF's experience in the watershed to date. Key findings include: (1) the RGWF's approach as a collaborative network created the right level of formality while also keeping flexibility in its design, (2) a scalar fit to the environmental challenge built social capital and investment in its work, (3) leadership from key stakeholders leveraged opportunities in the watershed to create and maintain stability, and (4) use of adaptive management and peer review processes built capacity by creating the feedback loops necessary to inform future work.
应对新墨西哥州上里奥格兰德流域野火和流域恢复力的适应性治理战略
全球气候模型预测,在未来50年里,新墨西哥州的上里约热内卢格兰德流域预计将变得更加干旱,并经历更大的气候和水文极端事件。由此产生的转变将对下游用水户产生重大影响。上里约热内卢格兰德河及其支流为新墨西哥州大约一半的人口提供水,包括下游的阿尔伯克基和圣达菲社区,以及周围的农业区。在缺乏正式气候适应战略的情况下,正在出现非正式治理安排,以促进流域气候适应战略,包括燃料处理和河流修复。其中一个例子是里约热内卢Grande Water Fund (RGWF),这是一项协调工作,通过在支流森林流域进行景观尺度的森林恢复处理,保护里约热内卢Grande Water的储存、输送和质量。本文将RGWF作为新兴适应战略的一个例子进行研究,该战略在现有法律和政策框架内外开展工作,以实现跨越司法界限和行政障碍的更多合作。我们从相关文献中确定了适应性治理的十(10)个关键特征,然后将它们应用到RGWF迄今在流域的经验中。主要发现包括:(1) RGWF作为一个协作网络的方法创造了适当的正式程度,同时在设计上保持了灵活性;(2)适应环境挑战的标量为其工作建立了社会资本和投资;(3)关键利益相关者的领导利用流域的机会来创造和维持稳定;(4)使用适应性管理和同行评审流程,通过创建反馈循环来建立能力,为未来的工作提供必要的信息。
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Frontiers in Climate
Frontiers in Climate Environmental Science-Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
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