Core Faculty Profile
Dr. Margaret Wilder
Contact Information
Email: mwilder@u.arizona.edu
Margaret joined the LAS faculty in 2001 with an interdisciplinary background in Geography, Political Science and Latin American Studies and previous work as an associate dean and a city planner . Her research interests include environment, agriculture, water and public policy with a particular regional focus on the U.S.-Mexico border and Mexico. Her 2001 dissertation examines the restructuring of water management in Mexico and the impacts on farmers in Sonora. She helps to coordinate border studies activities and teaches courses that include an introduction to Latin America and the Geography of Middle America.
Selected Publications
Wilder, M. and Patricia Romero Lankao. 2006. Paradoxes of Decentralization: Water Reform and Social Implications in Mexico. Accepted for publication in World Development.
Wilder, M. and Scott Whiteford. 2005. Forthcoming. Flowing Uphill Toward Money: Free Trade and Groundwater in the Ejidatario Sector of Mexico. In The Changing Structure of Mexico: Political, Social, and Economic Prospects, ed. Laura Randall. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe.
Wilder, M. 2006. (Forthcoming). Water, Power and Social Reform in Mexico. VertigO: la revue electronique en sciences de l’environnnement, Universite du Quebec, Montreal. Under review.
Wilder, M. 2000. Border Farmers, Water Contamination and the NAAEC Environmental Side Accord to NAFTA. Natural Resources Journal 40 (Fall).
Wilder, M. 2000. The ‘New Culture’ of Water and Ejidatario Producers in the Yaqui River Valley, Sonora. Estudios Sociales 10 (19): January-June.