Exploring the Nexus between LCLUC, Socio-Economic Factors, and Water for a Vulnerable Arid US-Mexico Transboundary Region
Design of a EO2DM pipeline to better understand and document LCLUC and water management
Transboundary regions are particularly susceptible to unplanned LCLUC due to fragmented governance despite proximity. A holistic understanding of LCLUC and their drivers in transboundary regions is crucial for more effective water management. An Earth Observations to Decision Making (EO2DM) pipeline is being implemented to address two critical challenges: (1) insufficient long-term, high-resolution transboundary landuse data, and (2) the lack of socio-environmental modeling frameworks capable of integrating human and natural system dynamics. This project has developed the first 30-year (1994–2024), 30 m annual Crop & Land Cover Land Use (CLCLU) dataset for the binational Middle Rio Grande (MRG) region [1] and identified, through a systematic review, the need for hybrid stakeholder-informed LCLUC models [2].
