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Author | : United States. Environmental Protection Agency. U.S.-Mexico Border Environmental Plan Public Advisory Committee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Environmental impact analysis |
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Author | : Paul Ganster |
Publisher | : SCERP and IRSC publications |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Conservation of natural resources |
ISBN | : 9780925613288 |
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Author | : Paul Westerhoff |
Publisher | : SCERP and IRSC publications |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Environmental protection |
ISBN | : 9780925613301 |
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The border region lies 100 kilometers/60 miles on each side of the U.S.-Mexican border and encompasses parts of four states in the United States and the six Mexican states of Baja California. Approximately 12 million people live in the U.S. counties and Mexican municipalities on the border. The high density of people and increased industrialization since the passage of NAFTA has placed an even greater burden on the inadequate infrastructure and environnmental resources of the region. Exacerbating the problem is the fact that many U.S. counties along the border are categorized as "economically distressed." and few communities possess the resources needed to address environmental concerns. This volume examines many of the environmental issues that pertain to this rapid urbanization in this region.
Author | : United States. General Accounting Office |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Environmental protection |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Linda Fernandez |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 501 |
Release | : 2005-12-30 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0306479613 |
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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.
Author | : Michael Wilken-Robertson |
Publisher | : SCERP and IRSC publications |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Human ecology |
ISBN | : 9780925613424 |
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A collection of papers commissioned by the Southwest Center for Environmental Research and Policy addresses the social, environmental, and economic problems of Indian tribes in the Mexican-American border region.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on International Development, Finance, Trade, and Monetary Policy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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Of the agreement establishing the Border Environment Cooperation Commission and the North American Development Bank -- Funding environmental needs associated with the North American Free Trade Agreement / Sierra Club -- Analysis of environmental infrastructure requirements and financing gaps on the U.S. / Mexico border.
Author | : Erik Lee |
Publisher | : SCERP and IRSC publications |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Environmental policy |
ISBN | : 0925613533 |
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Author | : Norris C. Clement |
Publisher | : SCERP and IRSC publications |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Environmental protection |
ISBN | : 9780925613356 |
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Author | : Devon G. Peña |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2022-09-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0816550824 |
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Mexican Americans have traditionally had a strong land ethic, believing that humans must respect la tierra because it is the source of la vida. As modern market forces exploit the earth, communities struggle to control their own ecological futures, and several studies have recorded that Mexican Americans are more impacted by environmental injustices than are other national-origin groups. In our countryside, agricultural workers are poisoned by pesticides, while farmers have lost ancestral lands to expropriation. And in our polluted inner cities, toxic wastes sicken children in their very playgrounds and homes. This book addresses the struggle for environmental justice, grassroots democracy, and a sustainable society from a variety of Mexican American perspectives. It draws on the ideas and experiences of people from all walks of life—activists, farmworkers, union organizers, land managers, educators, and many others—who provide a clear overview of the most critical ecological issues facing Mexican-origin people today. The text is organized to first provide a general introduction to ecology, from both scientific and political perspectives. It then presents an environmental history for Mexican-origin people on both sides of the border, showing that the ecologically sustainable Norteño land use practices were eroded by the conquest of El Norte by the United States. It finally offers a critique of the principal schools of American environmentalism and introduces the organizations and struggles of Mexican Americans in contemporary ecological politics. Devon Peña contrasts tenets of radical environmentalism with the ecological beliefs and grassroots struggles of Mexican-origin people, then shows how contemporary environmental justice struggles in Mexican American communities have challenged dominant concepts of environmentalism. Mexican Americans and the Environment is a didactically sound text that introduces students to the conceptual vocabularies of ecology, culture, history, and politics as it tells how competing ideas about nature have helped shape land use and environmental policies. By demonstrating that any consideration of environmental ethics is incomplete without taking into account the experiences of Mexican Americans, it clearly shows students that ecology is more than nature study but embraces social issues of critical importance to their own lives.