Border Water : The Politics of U. S. -Mexico Transboundary Water Management, 1945-2015

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910862098103321
• Autore: Mumme Stephen P
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Québec : , : University of Arizona Press, , 2023; ©2023
• ISBN: 0-8165-4832-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (433 pages)
• Disciplina: 333.91009721
• Soggetti: Water resources development - Political aspects - Mexican-American Border Region - History - 20th century; Water resources development - Political aspects - Mexican-American Border Region - History - 21st century; History; Electronic books.; North America Mexican-American Border Region
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Development and consolidation of the transboundary water management regime -- ; 1. The Water Treaty of 1944 and the foundations of border water governance -- ; 2. Development, growth and boundaries, 1950-1970 -- ; 3. Sanitation, salinity, and the environment, 1946-1970 -- ; 4. Salinity on the Rio Grande and Colorado rivers, 1965-1973 -- The environmental era -- ; 5. Into the environmental era: urbanization and pollution in border water management, 1973-1983 -- ; 6. IBWC in transition: sanitation, floods, groundwater, and bureaucratic partnership, 1980-1991 -- ; 7. NAFTA and sustainability in border water management, 1990-2003 -- ; 8. Sanitation, water, and security along the boundary, 2001-2015 -- Lessons learned and the future of United States-Mexico transboundary water management -- ; 9. United States-Mexico water diplomacy and management, 1945-2015: lessons learned -- ; 10. The Treaty, the IBWC, and the future of U.S.-Mexico transboundary water management.
• Sommario/riassunto: "This is the first scholarly study to detail the history and international ; politics of managing water flowing across the U.S.-Mexico border. Written from both a historical and political science perspective, the study's primary aim is to provide students and scholars with a reliable one-volume account of the history of binational cooperation on transboundary water management for the 70-year period under consideration. The historical narrative relies on archival sources, interviews, government documents, advocacy organizations' reports and correspondence, and a wide-ranging canvas of scholarly and popular press materials focused on transboundary water management. The author offers a unique periodization for better understanding developments in international cooperation through time"--