Abstract
Sandoval-Solis, S., S. Paladino, L. E. Garza-Diaz, L. F. Nava, J. R. Friedman, J. Ortiz-Partida, S. Plassin, G. Gomez-Quiroga, J. A. Koch, J. Fleming, B. A. Lane, S. Wineland, A. Mirchi, R. Saiz-Rodriguez, and T. Neeson. 2022. Environmental flows in the Rio Grande - Rio Bravo basin. Ecology and Society 27(1):20. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12944-270120
Highlights
The Rio Grande/Río Bravo as a social-ecological systemOverview The Rio Grande/Bravo is a transboundary river basin shared by the United States and Mexico, and is home to more than 10.4 million people
We focused on three questions: (1) What is the current status of knowledge about environmental flows and their relation to ecosystem and human water needs in the Rio Grande/Bravo? (2) In what ways do current water governance frameworks in the basin appear to support or hinder the establishment of environmental flows? (3) Are there policies or practices that have implemented environmental flows, and what lessons can be learned from those experiences for a more widespread implementation in the basin? We address these questions by considering the Rio Grande/Bravo as a whole basin
Initiatives discussion We examined the social and natural contexts for implementing environmental flows in the Rio Grande/Bravo basin, and stressed both the challenges and opportunities they present and the importance of treating the Rio Grande/Bravo as a continuous, dynamic, and complex social-ecological system (SES)
Summary
Overview The Rio Grande/Bravo is a transboundary river basin shared by the United States and Mexico, and is home to more than 10.4 million people. It is the fifth longest river in North America, with a length of approximately 3000 km, two-thirds of which delimit the border between the two countries (Fig. 1). We examine environmental flows within the context of the Rio Grande/Bravo as a complex SES, where it is not possible to decouple the social, political, economic, hydrological, and ecological aspects from each other. Approaching the Rio Grande/Bravo basin as an SES allows the framing of challenges and opportunities for implementing environmental flows in ways that are technically and legally sound and socially needed, but necessary to sustain ecosystem functions and the ecological goods and services
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