The La Paz Agreement 30 Years On

Mumme, Stephen P.; Collins, Kimberly

doi:10.1177/1070496514528801

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“…The two countries signed the La Paz Agreement in 1983, which formally committed the US and Mexico to annual meetings between ministries and reviewing border environmental concerns. The agreement did not include any specific solutions or environmental protections but does provide a mechanism to do so in the future if desired [86]. The US Congress authorized Public Law 109-448 in late 2006, whose formal name is the United States-Mexico Transboundary Aquifer Assessment Act (TAAA) [87].…”

Section: Establishment Of the Taapmentioning

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Science and Binational Cooperation: Bidirectionality in the Transboundary Aquifer Assessment Program in the Arizona-Sonora Border Region

Petersen‐Perlman

Albrecht

Tapia-Villaseñor

et al. 2021

Water

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Sharing scientific data and information is often cited within academic literature as an initial step of water cooperation, but the transfer of research findings into policy and practice is often slow and inconsistent. Certain attributes—including salience, credibility, and legitimacy of scientific information; iterative information production; and sociocultural factors—may influence how easily scientific information can be used in management and policymaking. However, transnationality usually complicates these sorts of interactions. Accordingly, we argue that the production of scientific information and transboundary water cooperation build upon each other bidirectionally, each informing and enhancing the other. We employ a case-study analysis of the Transboundary Aquifer Assessment Program (TAAP), a binational collaborative effort for scientific assessment of aquifers shared between Mexico and the United States. Here, information sharing was possible only by first completing a formal, jointly agreed-upon cooperative framework in 2009. This framework resulted in a collaborative science production process, suggesting that the relationship between sharing data and information and transboundary groundwater governance is iterative and self-reinforcing. In keeping with the publication of the TAAP’s first binational scientific report in 2016, we demonstrate the bidirectional relationship between science production and water governance in the TAAP and explore remaining challenges after scientific assessment.

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Section: Establishment Of the Taapmentioning

confidence: 99%

Science and Binational Cooperation: Bidirectionality in the Transboundary Aquifer Assessment Program in the Arizona-Sonora Border Region

Petersen‐Perlman

Albrecht

Tapia-Villaseñor

et al. 2021

Water

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“…Additional bilateral agreements have been made since the Treaty. The La Paz Agreement, was ratified 30 years after it was made in 1983 (Mumme and Collins, 2014). La Paz, which called for increased investment in water resource management on the border, both nationally and binationally, signified a step forward for cooperation between Mexico and the USA (Mumme and Collins, 2014; Thompson, 2009).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The La Paz Agreement, was ratified 30 years after it was made in 1983 (Mumme and Collins, 2014). La Paz, which called for increased investment in water resource management on the border, both nationally and binationally, signified a step forward for cooperation between Mexico and the USA (Mumme and Collins, 2014; Thompson, 2009). The agreement reaffirmed the capacity of the IBWC in water management, and raised awareness of environmental issues in the border area, especially those issues which affected both countries (PIDW, 1998).…”

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Water management on the Mexico-US border: a review of the literature

Miguel

2018

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine literature relating to water management on the Mexico-US border. It suggests avenues that may be valuable in improving cooperation in policy-making between the USA and Mexico on water management issues. Design/methodology/approach A review of the literature associated with water management on the border of Mexico and the USA is conducted in this paper. The studies are chosen from scholarly databases (pre-eminently EBSCOHost and JSTOR), and are chosen for their depth, authoritativeness of the authors involved, and because of the empirical and quantifiable data they present. The studies selected ranged from the mid-1990s to 2017. Findings The literature selected for review in this paper demonstrates that shared water resources must be managed in a combination of national and binational ways to lead to sustainability. In the border region, recent initiatives to resolve inequalities have emerged, including steps taken by North American Development Bank to purchase bonds as loans. Originality/value Historical approaches to policy have been moderately successful, but policy needs to be updated in line with current circumstances and requirements. There appears to be a misunderstanding of what is currently needed from policy. This paper identifies areas that need updated policy and makes policy recommendations.

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“…Despite such disincentives, U.S. transborder cities, like those in other parts of the United States, have implemented numerous policies to address the environmental problems they face and specifically to reduce GHG emissions. The policy actions that have been taken by these cities have naturally been motivated by the fact that environmental concerns between the United States and Mexico are significant and have been well established in the scholarly literature [8,9]. Nonetheless, as stated above, scholarly attention to communities in the U.S. transborder region has been minimal, because most attention has focused on large metropolitan statistical areas (MSA) such as El Paso, San Diego, and Tucson, which are routinely examined for their environmental programs.…”

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Municipal Efforts to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Evidence from U.S. Cities on the U.S.-Mexico Border

2019

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In this study, we examine municipal efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by focusing on emissions from vehicular sources. We compare what different cities have done to address the problem of GHG emissions from vehicles by using atmospheric data to assess the impact policy efforts have had on actual GHGs. We focus on an area overlooked in the literature, U.S. cities on the U.S.-Mexico transborder region. Using GHG vehicular emissions data from the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) and an ordinary least square model, this research foundcities have reduced levels of GHGs, especially when municipal efforts are supported by state policies to reduce GHG emissions. While GHG in general are transboundary and a global issue by nature, communities in the U.S. border region are directly impacted by vehicular emissions due to cross-border trade that is not prevalent in interior communities. However, one of the main limitations in this type of study is the lack of reportable environmental data for less populated cities on the U.S.-Mexico border. Future studies need to develop alternative approaches to sustainability that could provide a more nuanced examination of some of the challenges or success in the U.S. transborder region.

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The La Paz Agreement 30 Years On

Cited by 18 publications

References 11 publications

Science and Binational Cooperation: Bidirectionality in the Transboundary Aquifer Assessment Program in the Arizona-Sonora Border Region

Science and Binational Cooperation: Bidirectionality in the Transboundary Aquifer Assessment Program in the Arizona-Sonora Border Region

Water management on the Mexico-US border: a review of the literature

Municipal Efforts to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Evidence from U.S. Cities on the U.S.-Mexico Border

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