Margaret L. (Osberger) Wilder, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Professor of Environmental Policy
Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Geography and Regional Development.

Curriculum Vitae [pdf]

Address: 803 E. First St., Tucson, AZ 85719
Phone: (520) 626-4393
E-mail: mwilder@u.arizona.edu

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Margaret Wilder is an assistant research professor of environmental policy with the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at The University of Arizona. She is also an assistant professor of Latin American studies and an adjunct assistant professor of geography and regional development. She earned a Ph.D. in geography and regional development from The University of Arizona in 2002 and holds a master’s degree in public policy studies from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree in government and international affairs (with certification in Latin American studies) from the University of Notre Dame.

Wilder’s research focuses on the political ecology of water and development in Latin America, water policy and water governance in Mexico, water and equity, and transformations in small-scale agriculture in northwest Mexico and Central America. Her recent research examines the interconnections of climatic change and the vulnerability of water resources in the U.S.-Mexico border region, and she is a principal investigator of several projects supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research.

She supervises several master’s degree and doctoral students in Latin American studies, geography, and related fields, who study such topics as water and environmental policy in Latin America or immigration and U.S.-Mexico border interests. Her graduate and undergraduate courses in Latin American studies and geography often include field trips to Mexico and the border region.

Previously, Wilder was a senior urban planner and an aide to the mayor in the city of Tucson, Arizona, and from 1991 to 2002 was associate dean of the UA College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at The University of Arizona.

She is married to Joseph Carleton Wilder, director of the UA’s Southwest Center and editor of Journal of the Southwest. They have two children, Elizabeth and Read, and live with a golden retriever and six cats in an adobe house they constructed in historic downtown Tucson.

CURRENT PROJECTS

> Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change (Deputy Principal Investigator | Funded by NOAA/SARP)
> Use of Climate Diagnostics (Co-Principal investigator | Funded by IAI)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

	Political and economic apertures and the shifting state-citizen relationship: Reforming Mexico’s national water policy Wilder, Margaret. 2009 (in press). In Water Policy Entrepreneurs: A Research Companion to Water Transitions Around the Globe, ed. Dave Huitema and Sander Meijerink. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
	Equity and water in Mexico’s changing institutional landscapes Wilder, Margaret. 2008. In Water and Equity: Apportioning Water Among Places and Values, ed. Richard Perry, Helen Ingram, and John Whiteley, 95-116. Cambridge: MIT Press. [link]
	Applications of monsoon research: Opportunities to inform decision making and reduce regional vulnerability Ray, Andrea J., Gregg M. Garfin, Margaret Wilder, Marcela Vásquez-León, Melanie Lenart, and Andrew C. Comrie. 2007. Journal of Climate 20(9): 1608-27. [pdf]
	Equilibrio de bajo nivel y manejo urbano del agua en Cananea, Sonora (Low-level equilibrium and urban water management in Cananea, Sonora) Pineda Pablos, Nicolás, Anne Browning-Aiken, and Margaret Wilder. 2007. Frontera Norte 19: 143-72 (Spanish, w/ English abstract). [pdf]
	Climate, water management and policy in the San Pedro basin: Results of a survey of Mexican stakeholders near the U.S.-Mexico border Browning-Aiken, Anne, Barbara Morehouse, Allison Davis, Margaret Wilder, Robert Varady, David Goodrich, Rebecca Carter, Denise Moreno, and Emily Dellinger McGovern. 2007. Climatic Change 85:323-41. [pdf]
	Flowing uphill toward money: Groundwater management and ejidal producers in Mexico’s free trade environment Wilder, Margaret, and Scott Whiteford, 2006 (2nd ed.). In Changing Structure of Mexico: Political, Social and Economic Prospects, ed. Laura Randall, 341-58. New York: M.E. Sharpe. [link]
	Climate Change Beyond Borders: Bilingual Lesson Plans for the Binational Santa Cruz Watershed Shipek, Lisa, Margaret Wilder, J. Kentnor, Gigi Owen, Anne Browning-Aiken, and Denisse Fisher de Leon. 2006. Tucson: Center for Latin American Studies and Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy.[pdf] (also in Spanish [pdf])
	Drought Beyond Borders: Bilingual Lesson Plans for the Binational Santa Cruz Watershed Shipek, Lisa, Margaret Wilder, J. Kentnor, Gigi Owen, Anne Browning-Aiken, and Denisse Fisher de Leon. 2006. Tucson: Center for Latin American Studies and Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy. [pdf] (also in Spanish [pdf])
	Paradoxes of decentralization: Neoliberal reforms and water institutions in Mexico Wilder, Margaret, and Patricia Romero Lankao. 2006. World Development 34(11): 1977-95. [pdf]
	Water, power and social transformation: Neoliberal reforms in Mexico Wilder, Margaret. 2005. VertigO: La revue en sciences de l’environnement 6(2): 1-5. [link]
	Border farmers, water contamination, and the NAAEC environmental side accord to NAFTA Wilder, Margaret. 2000. Natural Resources Journal (Fall): 873-94.
	The “new Culture” of water and the communal farmers of the Yaqui Valley, Sonora Wilder, Margaret. 2000. Estudios Sociales 10(19): 63-97. [link]

MORE INFORMATION

Center for Latin American Studies

Department of Geography and Regional Development

Southwest Center