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Abbreviations
ACI
Adaptation Capacity Index
AI
Aridity Index
AMIMP
Asociación Mexicana de Institutos de Planeación
AMO
Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation
ANP
Área Natural Protegida
BR
Biosphere Reserve
BRM
Biosphere Reserve of Mapimí
CAP
Community Action Plan
CAS
Complex Adaptive Systems
CC
Climate Change
CGIAR
Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research
CESPE
Comisión Estatal de Servicios Públicos de Ensenada
CHARISMA
Changement et VariabilitéS Climatiques
CLCU
Changes in Land Cover/Use
CMSD
Community Model of Sustainable Development
CNEED
Conseil National de l'Environnement pour un Développement
Durable
CONABIO
Comisión Nacional de Biodiversidad
CONACYT
Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología
CONANP
Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas
CONAGUA
Comisión Nacional del Agua
COP
Conference of the Parties
COTAS
Comité Técnico de Aguas Subterráneas
CFSR
Climate Forecast System Reanalysis
CV
Coefficient of Variation
DAC
Development Assistance Committee
DESA
Department of Economic and Social Affairs
DSES
Dryland Socioecological Systems
DWL
Depletion of Aquifers
ECOWAS
Economic Community of West African States
EM
Environmental Mainstreaming