title: One Bioregion/One Health: An Integrative Narrative for Transboundary Planning along the US-Mexico Border.
abstract: Global megatrends-including climate change, food and water insecurity, economic crisis, large-scale disasters and widespread increases in preventable diseases-are motivating a bioregionalisation of planning in city-regions around the world. Bioregionalisation is an emergent process. It is visible where societies have begun grappling with complex socio-ecological problems by establishing place-based (territorial) approaches to securing health and well-being. This article examines a bioregional effort to merge place-based health planning and ecological restoration along the US-Mexico border. The theoretical construct underpinning this effort is called One Bioregion/One Health (OBROH). OBROH frames health as a transborder phenomenon that involves human-animal-environment interactions. The OBROH approach aims to improve transborder knowledge networking, ecosystem resilience, community participation in science-society relations, leadership development and cross-disciplinary training. It is a theoretically informed narrative to guide action. OBROH is part of a paradigm shift evident worldwide; it is redefining human-ecological relationships in the quest for healthy place making. The article concludes on a forward-looking note about the promise of environmental epidemiology, telecoupling, ecological restoration, the engaged university and bioregional justice as concepts pertinent to reinventing place-based planning.
authors.forename: Keith
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Pezzoli
authors.forename: Justine
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kozo
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ferran
authors.forename: Wilma
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wooten
authors.forename: Gudelia Rangel
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Gomez
authors.forename: Wael K
authors.initials: WK
authors.lastname: Al-Delaimy