The U.S.-Mexico Border Environment

The U.S.-Mexican Border Environment: A Road Map to a Sustainable 2020 brings together background papers and ancillary materials prepared for the Border Institute I, held in December 1998. The briefing papers, as presented at Border Institute I and then revised, lay out basic information and analysis about the population, economy, environment, and governance of the border region. They provide the context for discussions of the environmental sustainability of the region over the next twenty years or so. The purpose of Border Institute I was to encourage stakeholders in the region and elsewhere to redirect their focus from immediate and urgent current border environmental issues to the steps that must be taken soon if the region is to arrive at 2020 with a healthy and sustainable environment. SCERP, and its partners in Border Institute I--the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Border Trade Alliance--will convene additional meetings approximately every year to continue the discussion on key aspects of the environmental sustainability of the border region. Each of these institutes will produce a volume for the SCERP Monograph Series.