Economic development, transport investment, and urbanization in Mexico: causality and effects

Vicente German-Soto Alexsandra De la Peña Flores Karina García (2023, [Artículo, Artículo])

The transport investment is often used as a tool for economic development and urbanization. However, there is still debate about whether transport improvements promote development and urbanization or, conversely, these latter create the conditions that stimulate the transport. In theory, the transport system contributes to development and urbanization because it speeds up the exchange of goods and services, but the effects can also be reversed, so the direction of causality is not so easily identified. This work uses Mexican state information of the 1988-2018 period, grouped as panel, to know both magnitude and direction of the impacts. Methodology consists in cointegration tests and VECM regressions. The results reveal that long-term causality goes from economic development to transport and its subsectors, which means that economic development is a necessary condition to modernize transport in Mexico. For urbanization, the causality and magnitude of the effects vary depending on the transport subsector. The total economy and passenger sector’s investments cause urbanization, but transportation and subsectors of cargo carriers and communications estimate two-way causality. The conclusions suggest that urbanization depends on improvements in transportation and the latter, in turn, on economic development.

Desarrollo regional Transporte Economía urbana Causalidad Modelo VECM CIENCIAS SOCIALES CIENCIAS SOCIALES Economic development, Granger-Causality, VECM Models, Productivity, Urban Economics

Estimating wheat canopy temperature from meteorological data: a multi-location approach

Carlo Montes Azam Lashkari Urs Schulthess (2021, [Objeto de congreso])

CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA CANOPY WHEAT TEMPERATURE METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS

Suministro de agua potable en México: ni equidad ni eficiencia

JOSE LUIS MONTESILLO CEDILLO (2006, [Documento de trabajo])

Este artículo presenta un análisis económico de las tarifas de agua potable para uso doméstico en el ámbito estatal de México. Se aclara la diferencia existente entre los conceptos “servicio estratégico y de seguridad nacional” y “bien propiedad de la nación”. De igual manera, se plantean y estiman modelos econométricos con la finalidad de escrutar el grado de eficiencia de las tarifas del servicio de agua potable para uso doméstico, así como para ver, de manera nítida, el nivel de equidad de dicho servicio, en el entendido de que la eficiencia se refiere a lo que es y la equidad a lo que se desea. La principal conclusión, con base en información correspondiente al año 2000, es que las tarifas por el servicio bajo estudio no son equitativas ni eficientes. Finalmente, se hace una propuesta de tarifación.

Abastecimiento de agua Eficiencia Tarifas Análisis económico CIENCIAS SOCIALES

Distribución de nuevos grupos funcionales de bromeliáceas epífitas en la Reserva de Calakmul, Campeche

Casandra Reyes García NARCY ANAÍ PEREIRA ZALDÍVAR CELENE MARISOL ESPADAS MANRIQUE Manuela de Jesús Tamayo Chim NAHLLELI CIVI CHILPA GALVAN ALFREDO DORANTES EUAN MARYPAZ RAMIREZ MEDINA LIGIA GUADALUPE ESPARZA OLGUIN LILIAN JUAREZ TELLEZ MONICA GONZALEZ JARAMILLO (2022, [Artículo])

Evaluamos cómo cinco grupos funcionales recientemente descritos para las epífitas (plantas que viven sobre otras) de la familia Bromeliaceae pueden utilizarse para describir cambios ambientales entre dos tipos de selva con diferente grado de conservación. Los grupos funcionales son: tanque (profundo) C3, tanque CAM, tanque somero, nebulofita y pseudobulbosas. Los primeros dos tipos dependen de altas cantidades de lluvia, los tanques someros se asocian al uso de rocío, las nebulofitas al uso de neblina y las pseudobulbosas presentan alta suculencia en sus hojas. La distribución de estos grupos revela cambios ambientales dentro de la Reserva de Calakmul.

BROMELIACEAE FOTOSINTESIS CAM NEBULOFITAS TANQUE TILLANDSIA BIOLOGÍA Y QUÍMICA CIENCIAS DE LA VIDA BIOLOGÍA VEGETAL (BOTÁNICA) ECOLOGÍA VEGETAL ECOLOGÍA VEGETAL

Integrative transcriptome and metabolome analysis reveals the mechanisms of light-induced pigmentation in purple waxy maize

XUECAI ZHANG Yunbi Xu Prasanna Boddupalli (2023, [Artículo])

Pigment Accumulation Light Response CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA ANTHOCYANINS LIGHT METABOLOMICS TRANSCRIPTOMICS WAXY MAIZE

UN PASEO POR TIJUANA: UNA REFLEXIÓN ETNOGRÁFICA SOBRE LA COTIDIANIDAD Y EL IMPACTO DE LAS CARAVANAS DE MIGRANTES EN TIJUANA, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MÉXICO.

Victor Vazquez Mariana Gutierrez (2022, [Artículo, Artículo])

Resumen:

El siguiente articulo presenta una reflexión antropológica y urbana centrada en la vida diaria y los principales problemas incluyendo: el impacto de las caravanas de migrantes, y cuestiones urbanas en Tijuana durante los años 2018 – 2021. En adición, el articulo aborda otros temas importantes como: el impacto de la pandemia del COVID-19, y los patrones socioculturales históricos desarrollados para sobrevivir las condiciones de desigualdad económica en Tijuana. A nivel metodológico, el articulo utilizó un enfoque cualitativo basado en experiencias de trabajo de campo que incluyeron observación participante y múltiples entrevistas realizadas a residentes durante distintas visitas a Tijuana, Baja California, México entre los años 2018-2021. Las conclusiones de este articulo presentan una reflexión para entender y hacer visible las condiciones de vida de los migrantes, los esfuerzos brindados por una organización de migrantes y el estilo de vida único y problemas urbanos contemporáneos desarrollados en la ciudad fronteriza de Tijuana.

Etnografia Estudios Urbanos Estudios Fromterizo Border studies Ethnography Tijuana HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS DE LA CONDUCTA HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS DE LA CONDUCTA

An efficient transformation method for genome editing of elite bread wheat cultivars

Akshaya Biswal Kanwarpal Dhugga (2023, [Artículo])

Particle Bombardment Wheat Growth-Regulating Factor 4 Wheat Growth-Interacting Factor Wheat Mildew Locus O CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA CRISPR GENE EDITING TRANSFORMATION WHEAT

Climate-smart agricultural practices influence the fungal communities and soil properties under major agri-food systems

madhu choudhary ML JAT Parbodh Chander Sharma (2022, [Artículo])

Fungal communities in agricultural soils are assumed to be affected by climate, weather, and anthropogenic activities, and magnitude of their effect depends on the agricultural activities. Therefore, a study was conducted to investigate the impact of the portfolio of management practices on fungal communities and soil physical–chemical properties. The study comprised different climate-smart agriculture (CSA)-based management scenarios (Sc) established on the principles of conservation agriculture (CA), namely, ScI is conventional tillage-based rice–wheat rotation, ScII is partial CA-based rice–wheat–mungbean, ScIII is partial CSA-based rice–wheat–mungbean, ScIV is partial CSA-based maize–wheat–mungbean, and ScV and ScVI are CSA-based scenarios and similar to ScIII and ScIV, respectively, except for fertigation method. All the scenarios were flood irrigated except the ScV and ScVI where water and nitrogen were given through subsurface drip irrigation. Soils of these scenarios were collected from 0 to 15 cm depth and analyzed by Illumina paired-end sequencing of Internal Transcribed Spacer regions (ITS1 and ITS2) for the study of fungal community composition. Analysis of 5 million processed sequences showed a higher Shannon diversity index of 1.47 times and a Simpson index of 1.12 times in maize-based CSA scenarios (ScIV and ScVI) compared with rice-based CSA scenarios (ScIII and ScV). Seven phyla were present in all the scenarios, where Ascomycota was the most abundant phyla and it was followed by Basidiomycota and Zygomycota. Ascomycota was found more abundant in rice-based CSA scenarios as compared to maize-based CSA scenarios. Soil organic carbon and nitrogen were found to be 1.62 and 1.25 times higher in CSA scenarios compared with other scenarios. Bulk density was found highest in farmers' practice (Sc1); however, mean weight diameter and water-stable aggregates were found lowest in ScI. Soil physical, chemical, and biological properties were found better under CSA-based practices, which also increased the wheat grain yield by 12.5% and system yield by 18.8%. These results indicate that bundling/layering of smart agricultural practices over farmers' practices has tremendous effects on soil properties, and hence play an important role in sustaining soil quality/health.

Agriculture Management Fungal Community Diversity Indices Climate-Smart Agricultural Practices CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA AGRICULTURE TILLAGE CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE SOIL ORGANIC CARBON

Agroecology and systems analysis for sustainable agriculture

Santiago Lopez-Ridaura (2022, [Artículo])

Multi-Criteria Tradeoffs Synergies CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA AGROECOLOGY INDICATORS SUSTAINABILITY FARMING SYSTEMS

Modeling spatiotemporal patterns of land use/land cover change in Central Malawi using a neural network model

Leah Mungai Joseph Messina Leo Zulu Jiaguo Qi Sieglinde Snapp (2022, [Artículo])

Multilayer Perceptrons CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA AGRICULTURE LAND USE POPULATION SATELLITE IMAGERY TEXTURE LAND COVER NEURAL NETWORKS REMOTE SENSING