Promoting Health, Combating Climate Change: How the Promotores de Salud Network in the US-Mexico Borderlands is Building Climate Resilience

 
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Through a case study of the Promotores de Salud network in the US-Mexico borderlands, Schur Petri shows how local actors can be instrumental in communicating climate risks on the ground. In a region where water contamination compounds the existing problem of water scarcity, both scientific knowledge about climate change and water-filtration technology to remove contaminants had failed to adequately address either threat. Yet a partnership with community healthcare workers was able to link climate risks to existing local concerns and ultimately develop more effective solutions.

DOI: doi.org/10.5282/rcc/8854