Organisations, Programmes, and Projects
State Environmental Information System (State system of environmental information), Ministry of Environment Protection of the Government of the State of Baja California
Description: environmental data and programs in the Baja California state
Environmental impact management (Directorate of Environmental Impact), Government of Baja California
Description: programs for environmental audits, management, impacts, and planning in the state
http://www.spabc.gob.mx/direccion/impacto-ambiental/
Helice Foundation
Description: non-profit civil society organization to promote environmental protection in Baja California
Resources
Sources for Mexicali pages
Extreme temperature scenarios in Mexicali, Mexico under climate change conditions. O.R.García Cueto, N.Santillán Soto, M.Quintero Núñez, S.Ojeda Benítez, & N.Velázquez Limó
Heat waves and heat days in an arid city in the northwest of México: current trends and in climate change scenarios. Rafael O. García Cueto, Adalberto Tejeda Martínez & Ernesto Jáuregui Ostos
Trends in rainfall and extreme temperatures in northwestern Mexico, Oscar G. Gutiérrez-Ruacho , Luis Brito-Castillo, Sara C. Díaz-Castro, Christopher J. Watts
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/enso/changes-enso-impacts-warming-world
Climate Change and U.S.-Mexico Border Communities, Margaret Wilder (University of Arizona)
Water-energy nexus in semiarid regions and coastal cities of California and Baja California. Gabriela Muñoz Meléndez.
Urbanization effects upon the air temperature in Mexicali, B. C., México. Rafael Garcia Cueto, Adalberto Tejeda Martínez, Gonzalo Bojorquez.
Urban expansion and change of land uses: city of Mexicali 1990 – 2005. Osvaldo Leyva Camacho, R Venegas-Cardoso, Rosa Rojas-Caldelas, & Arturo Ranfla Gonzalez
Climate change and the economy in Baja California: Assessment of macroeconomic impacts of the State's Climate Action Plan. Dan Wei, Alejandro Brugués, Adam Rose, Carlos A. de la Parra, Rigoberto García, & Federico Martínez.
Understanding Public Transport Ridership in Developing Countries to Promote Sustainable Urban Mobility: A Case Study of Mexicali, Mexico. Alejandro Sánchez-Atondo, Leonel García , Julio Calderón-Ramírez, José Manuel Gutiérrez-Moreno, & Alejandro Mungaray-Moctezuma
Baja California: Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use in the north of Mexico
Assessing Water Demand for Agriculture in the Mexicali Valley Aquifer Delta of the Colorado River using Remote Sensing and GIS. Rubio-Velazquez, Javier
Farm Resilience to Water Supply Variability: An Econometric Analysis of Risk Management in the Mexicali Valley, Mexico. Schuster, Elizabeth
A Line Drawn in Water: Aquifers Beneath the Mexico-United States Border. Paul Stanton Kibel
Reports and Policies
Water in the Mexicali valley, Baja California: origin, use and destination (Water in the Mexicali valley: origin, use and destination), Instituto Mexicano de Tecnología del Agua
Description: a report to communicate scientific data to citizens about water's lifecycle
https://www.imta.gob.mx/gobmx/2020/EL_AGUA_VALLE_MEXICALI.pdf
Baja California State Program of Environmental Protection 2015-2019, Government of the State of Baja California
Description: outlines present and future environmental conditions and strategies for the Baja California state
http://www.copladebc.gob.mx/publicaciones/2018/planesyprogramas/PROGRAMA%20Medio%20ambiente.pdf
Special Rural Development Program for the Mexicali Valley Region 2015-2019 (Program for rural growth of the Mexicali Valley Region), State Development Planning Committee
Description: regional rural growth comprehensive plan that includes economic, social, and environmental issues
Diagnostic and restoration of the Ramsar wetlands in Baja California, Secretariat of Environmental Protection. Baja California State Government
Description: review and analysis of research on protected Ramsar wetlands
Sistema Estatal de Información Ambiental (State system of environmental information), Secretaría de Protección al Ambiente del Gobierno del Estado de Baja California
Description: environmental data and programs in the Baja California state
Dirección de Impacto ambiental (Directorate of environmental impact), Gobierno de Baja California
Description: programs for environmental audits, management, impacts, and planning in the state
http://www.spabc.gob.mx/direccion/impacto-ambiental/
Fundacion Helice
Description: non-profit civil society organization to promote environmental protection in Baja California
http://fundacionheliceac.com/index.htm
Academic articles
García Cueto, O. R, Santillán Soto, N, Quintero Núñez, M, Ojeda Benítez, S, & Velázquez Limón, N. (2013). Extreme temperature scenarios in Mexicali, Mexico under climate change conditions. Atmosphere , 26 (4), 509-520.
Description: quantitative analysis of temperature change with discussion of implications
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0187-6236(13)71092-0
Austria and Bandala. (2016). Maximum Temperatures and Heat Waves in Mexicali, Mexico: Trends and Threshold Analysis. Air, Soil and Water Research 9: 21–28.
Description: quantitative analysis of temperatures
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.4137/ASWR.S32778
Villanueva-Solis, J. (2017) Urban Heat Island Mitigation and Urban Planning: The Case of the Mexicali, BC Mexico. American Journal of Climate Change , 6, 22-39.
Description: analyzes the relationship between urban heath island, urbanization, and housing
https://m.scirp.org/papers/73976
Algeria Melero Hernández, Margarito Quintero Núñez, & Moisés Galindo Duarte. (2013). Analysis of the mitigation and adaptation strategies of the transport industry in the city of Mexicali. Border Studies , 14 (28), 79-105.
Description: discusses mitigation, adaptation and urban growth factors of the transport industry
http://ref.uabc.mx/ojs/index.php/ref/article/download/63/110?inline=1
R. Rojas-Caldelas, C. Peña-Salmon, E. Corona-Zambrano, A. Arias-Vallejo & O. Leyva-Camacho. (2013). Environmental sustainability agenda: Metropolitan Area of Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico. Sustainable Development and Planning 173, 267-277.
Description: research based on fieldwork in Mexicali that seeks to integrate environmental sustainability with urban planning
https://www.witpress.com/Secure/elibrary/papers/SDP13/SDP13022FU1.pdf
Schuster, Elizabeth, & Colby, Bonnie. (2013). Farm and Ecological Resilience to Water Supply Variability. Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education , 151 (1), 70-83.
Description: research based on fieldwork in Mexicali to understand agricultural water management