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Both Sides of the Border

Transboundary Environmental Management Issues Facing Mexico and the United States

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  • © 2002

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  1. Jan J. Batema
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  2. Linda Fernandez

    1. University of California, Riverside, USA

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  3. Richard T. Carson

    1. University of California, San Diego, USA

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Part of the book series: The Economics of Non-Market Goods and Resources (ENGO, volume 2)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-11

  3. Law, Politics, and Institutions for a Border Environment

    1. Improving Institutional Response to Environmental Problems

      • Mark J. Spalding
      Pages 15-28

    2. Impact of Two NAFTA Institutions on Border Water Infrastructure

      • Nicole Carter, Leonard Ortolano
      Pages 29-52

    3. Binational Cooperation and the Environment at the U.S.-Mexico Border: A Mexican Perspective

      • Roberto A. Sánchez
      Pages 53-71

  4. Characteristics of the Border Community

    1. Characteristics of Border Communities

      • Chris L. Gianos
      Pages 75-95

    2. “Off the Backs of Others”: The Political ecology of credit, debt, and class formation and transformation among the Colonias of New Mexico and Elsewhere

      • Carlos Velez-Ibanez, Guillermina Nunez, Dominic Rissdo
      Pages 97-116

    3. Immigration, Agriculture, and the Border

      • Philip Martin
      Pages 117-128

  6. Air Pollution, Transportation, Energy, Hazardous Materials

    1. Solving Transboundary Air Quality Problems in the Paso del Norte Region

      • Carlos A. Rincón
      Pages 255-280

    2. Border Congestion, Air Quality, and Commerce

      • Richard W. Halvey
      Pages 281-304

    3. U.S. Transportation Responses to NAFTA: A Window on U.S.-Mexico Transport Issues

      • Gian-Claudia Sciara
      Pages 305-322

    4. The US-Mexico Border Energy Zone

      • Martin J. Pasqualetti
      Pages 323-346

    5. Whither Hazardous-materials Management in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region?

      • Robert Varady, Patricia Romero Lankao, Katherine Hankins
      Pages 347-381

  7. Biological Resources, Terrestrial and Quatic Habitat Protection

    1. Divergence in Californian Vegetation and Fire Regimes Induced by Differences in Fire Management across the U.S.-Mexico Boundary

      • Richard A. Minnich, Ernesto Franco-Vizcaíno
      Pages 385-402

    2. Whales and Shared Coastal and Marine Management of the Border Pacific

      • Mark J. Spalding
      Pages 403-428
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The Mexican -- United States border represents much more than the meeting place of two nations. Our border communities are often a line of first defense -- absorbing the complex economic, environmental and social impacts of globalization that ripple through the region. In many ways, our success or failure in finding solutions for the environmental, social and economic issues that plague the region may well define our ability to meet similar challenges thousands of miles from the border zone. Border residents face the environmental security concerns posed by water scarcity and transboundary air pollution; the planning and infrastructure needs of an exploding population; the debilitating effects of inadequate sanitary and health facilities; and the crippling cycle of widespread poverty. Yet, with its manifold problems, the border area remains an area of great dynamism and hope -- a multicultural laboratory of experimentation and grass-roots problem-solving. Indeed, as North America moves towards a more integrated economy, citizen action at the local level is pushing governments to adapt to the driving forces in the border area by creating new institutional arrangements and improving old ones. If there is one defining feature of this ground-up push for more responsive transboundary policies and institutions, it is a departure from the closed, formalistic models of the past to a more open, transparent and participatory model of international interaction.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of California, Riverside, USA

    Linda Fernandez

  • University of California, San Diego, USA

    Richard T. Carson

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