Both Sides of the Border

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

5. Border water

   1. Financing Bilateral Water Projects on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Past, Present and Future

      • George Frisvold, Margriet Caswell

      Pages 131-159

   2. Lessons in Transboundary Resource Management from Ambos Nogales

      • Suzanne Levesque, Helen Ingram

      Pages 161-182

   3. Changes in Trade Policy and Wastewater Emissions for a Border Watershed

      • Linda Fernandez

      Pages 183-198

   4. The Geography of Water Transfers and Urbanization in Baja and Southern California

      • Suzanne Michel

      Pages 199-234

   5. Restoring Instream Flows Economically: Perspectives from an International River Basin

      • James F. Booker, Frank A. Ward

      Pages 235-252

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

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.

• Air pollution
• Conservation
• Environmental Management
• Wind
• biodiversity
• ecology
• ecosystem
• hydrogeology
• air pollution and air quality

• University of California, Riverside, USA

  Linda Fernandez

• University of California, San Diego, USA

  Richard T. Carson

Policies and ethics