Stephanie Buechler
Assistant Research Professor of Environmental Policy - Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, School of Geography and Development
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Adaptation programs/projects:
- The irrigation-hydropower nexus in the Ganges headwaters. Water, Land, and Energy (WLE) Program. (Consultative Group on Agricultural Research (CGIAR), 2015-2017)
- Environmental, Social, and Economic Sustainability: A Community Garden in a Low-Income Neighborhood in Tucson, Arizona. (Lead PI, 2013-)
- Coupled Natural-Human Systems. Research in Rayon, Sonora, Mexico on changing livelihoods in a riparian community. (Co-PI, National Science Foundation, 2012-2015)
- Arid Cities in Changing Climates: Urban Land and Water Use in the Desert Southwest. (Co-PI, Bureau of Reclamation, Denver office and Water Sustainability Program, University of Arizona, 2010-2013)
Selected publications:
- Buechler, S., 2016. Gendered vulnerabilities and grassroots adaptation initiatives in home gardens and small orchards in Northwest Mexico. Open Access Special Issue: ‘Gender perspectives in resilience and adaptation to global change research’. Ambio: a Journal of the Human Environment, 45(3), 322-334. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-016-0832-3#Abs1
- Buechler, S., and A.-M. Hanson (eds.), 2015. A Political Ecology of Women, Water and Global Environmental Change. London: Routledge. Buechler, S., 2015. Climate-water challenges and adaptation strategies of women in a riparian community in Sonora, Mexico. In Political Ecology of Women, Water and Global Environmental Change, S. Buechler and A.-M. Hanson, eds. London: Routledge.
- Scott, C., and S. Buechler, 2013. Environmental and social change in the U.S. Mexico borderlands: Climate, water, and demographic futures. Ecosphere, 4(1): 1-16.
- Buechler, S., 2012. Sustainability of gendered agricultural production in the context of water scarcity and climate change on the Mexican border with the United States, in Gender and Sustainability: Critical Case Studies from Asia and Latin America, ed. M.L. Cruz Torres and P. McElwee. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
- Buechler, S., and D. Gayathri, 2012. Highlighting the user in wastewater research: Gender, caste and class in the study of wastewater-dependent livelihoods in Hyderabad, India, in Diverting the Flow: Gender Equity and Water in South Asia (S. Ahmed, S.R. Gautam, and M. Zwarteveen, eds.). New Delhi: Zubaan Books.
- Buechler, S., 2009. Gender, water and climate change in Sonora, Mexico: Implications for policies and programmes on agricultural income generation, Gender and Development, 17(1): 51-66.
Employment highlights:
- Ambassador for Sisters on the Planet, Oxfam America
Education
- Ph.D., Sociology, Binghamton University, 2001
- M.A., Public Affairs, Cornell University, 1992
- B.A., Political Science, Haverford College, 1989
Expertise Area
- Stakeholder Engagement and Outreach
- Sustainability Options and Infrastructure
- Vulnerability Assessment
- Water Conservation, Supply, and Demand
- Program Evaluation
- Agriculture
- Drought
- Planning and Land Use
- Human Dimensions of Climate Change
- International and Development
- Natural Resources Management
Language Area
- Spanish
Geographic Area
- Asia
- Latin America and Caribbean
- US/Canada