Sustaining the Borderlands in the Age of NAFTA
Subtitle: Development, Politics, and Participation on the US-Mexico Border
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780826519597
Subjects: Sustainable development; Industries, environmental aspects; Mexican-american border region
Description: "Demonstrates that, twenty years hence, the promises of NAFTA have not come to pass. NAFTA took effect at a time when Mexico was undergoing a democratic transition. The treaty was supposed to encourage this transition and improve environmental and labor conditions on the U.S.- Mexico border"--Provided by publisher.