Francisco Lara-Valencia

Biography

Dr. Lara-Valencia's recent research investigated urbanization, economic integration, institutional change and socio-environmental vulnerability in the context of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. He is currently exploring the utilization of green infrastructure approaches to mitigate and adapt to climate change in border cities. He is also interested in understanding the drivers of cooperation and sustainable urban governance in border settings. His policy research focuses on issues of equity and efficiency of policy making and planning along the US-Mexico border. Dr. Lara-Valencia is an Assistant Professor of the School of Transborder Studies and Southwest Borderland Scholar at ASU. He has lectured in Mexico and the United States where he has taught courses on urban land use planning, urban economics, environmental planning, and research methods for planners.

Selected Publications

Laura M. Norman, H. Huth, L. Levick, I. Shea Burns, D. Phillip Guertin, Francisco Lara, and D. Semmens (2010). Flood Hazard Awareness and Hydrologic Modeling at Ambos Nogales, US-Mexico Border. Journal of Flood Risk Management, 1-15.

Francisco Lara, Sioban D. Harlow, Maria Carmen Lemos and Catalina Denman (2009). Equity and Spatial Distribution of Environmental Hazard: Reviewing the Evidence from Rapidly Industrializing Cities along the US-Mexico Border, Environmental Planning and Management, 52 (2):195-216.

Francisco Lara, Juan Declet-Barreto, Eric Keys (2008). Spatial equity and transportation hazard along cross-border trade corridors: the case of Ambos Nogales, Journal of Borderland Studies, 23(2):1-18.

Francisco Lara (2004). Gestion conjunta del medio ambiente en la frontera México-Estados Unidos: instituciones post-TLC, actores locales y redes transfronterizas, Región y Sociedad, 16(29): 75-107.