Creating Sustainable Futures for Southwestern Cities: The ProtoCity Approach in the Ciudad Juarez, Mexico/El Paso, Texas Metroplex - Design with the Desert: Conservation and Sustainable Development - page 544

ECO HYDRO CLIMO GEO

ecosystem health precipitation climatology soil

Frequency
and intensity
of precipitation

Change in
average
temperature

Desertification

Biodiversity

Best Worst Best Worst Best Worst Best Worst

FIGURE 31.7
ProtoMetrics of El Paso/Juarez identify ecological, hydrological, climatological, and geological trends from
world to site to better understand the specific physical characteristics of the place.

• ProtoSpace is the identity of all locations across the globe with statistically similar
ProtoMetric characteristics (Table 31.2). ProtoSpace forms the basis for a global
learning and organizing network linked by similar experience and expertise
(Figure 31.8).

• The ProtoPartner work-net is a network of individuals, organizations, and other
bodies working in the five ecoBalance impact categories (air, water, food, energy,
materials) with the same essential biophysical conditions. See the following
ProtoPartner chart identifying ProtoSpaces or cities/regions of similar biophysical
zones divided according to the ecoBalance categories.
• ProtoPartners and ProtoCities for El Paso/Juarez.
• Key ProtoPartners exist for all four major topic areas and at all scales from world
to site (Table 31.3). The ProtoCities also appear (Figure 31.9) in chart form as detail.

31.5.1.3.2 Assessment/Learning Phase
The Development Ladder is applied to El Paso and Juarez in terms of public health
indicators.