期刊名称：Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences
印刷版ISSN：1944-1088
电子版ISSN：1944-1096
出版年度：2011
卷号：3
期号：3
页码：758-774
出版社：Guild of Independent Scholars
摘要：Climate change has been a controversial topic in many aspects of political public policy design, implementation, and response planning. However, historical models and scientific evidence supports the inevitability of changes that will occur in many regions of the world in the form of prolonged droughts and/or flooding due to many contributing factors, including human interaction with the environment. This study explores the historical trends associated with Mexico as well as the public policies that should be in place to support social responses to the projected future changes in environmental conditions in the Mexican region as well as the United States that may promote a need for immigration policy change
