The U.S.-Mexican Border Environment: A Road Map to a Sustainable 2020 (SCERP Monograph Series, No.1)

The U.S.-Mexican Border Environment: A Road Map to a Sustainable 2020 brings together background papers and ancillary materials prepared for 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 populaton, economy, enviroment, and governance of the border region. They provided the context for discussions of the enviromental 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 enviromental issues to the steps that must be taken soon if the region is to arrive at 2020 with a healthy and sustainable enviroment. SCERP, and its partners in Border Institue I - the U.S. Enviromental Protection Agency and the Border Trade Alliance - will convene additional meetings approximately every year to continue the discussion of key aspects of the enviromental sustainablity of the border region.