Title: Environmental management on North America's borders /
Authors: Kiy, Richard; Wirth, John D.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Environmental management North America.
Abstract: North American economic integration, principally through the North American Free Trade Agreement, is creating important changes in many aspects of Canadian-United States-Mexican relations. One of the important areas affected by these changes is the environment. In Environmental Management on North America's Borders Richard Kiy and John D. Wirth have brought together a collection of timely studies written by experienced practitioners in border affairs that provide an introduction to the range of environmental issues on both borders and an understanding of the dynamics now transforming North America. Rather than examining only one border, or part of a border, at a time, this volume treats the two borders as one conceptual unit. Kiy and Wirth argue that the patterns of local participation and coalition-building are harbingers of an emerging North American community. Environmental Management on North America's Borders will be a particularly useful volume in the fields of environmental management and North American border studies. It can also serve as an important overview of these issues for those interested in the environment, NAFTA, and the concept of continental or regional integration.
Contents: The dynamics of transboundary environmental agreements in North America : discussion of preliminary findings -- The British Columbia-Washington environmental cooperation council : an evolving model of Canada-U.S. interjurisdictional cooperation -- Achieving progress in the Great Lakes basin ecosystem and the Georgia basin : Puget Sound bioregion -- Great whale : from conflict to joint planning of Québec's energy policy -- Managing air quality in the Paso del Norte region -- Crossborder environmental management and the informal sector : Ciudad Juárez brickmakers' project -- Carbón I/II : an unresolved binational challenge -- The maquiladoras and the environment -- Milagro beanfield war revisited : low-level hazardous waste sites in Del Rio, Dryden, and Spofford, Texas -- The handling of hazardous industrial waste on the U.S.-Mexico border : a case study of Titisa.