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Author:
Simon, Suzanne, 1967- author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2013011996
Title:
Sustaining the borderlands in the age of NAFTA : development, politics, and participation on the US-Mexico border / Suzanne Simon.
Publisher:
Vanderbilt University Press,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
xiv, 222 pages ; 24 cm
Subject:
Sustainable development--Mexican-American Border Region.
Industries--Environmental aspects--Mexican-American Border Region.
Mexican-American Border Region--Environmental aspects.--Environmental aspects.
Mexican-American Border Region--Economic conditions.
Mexican-American Border Region--Environmental conditions.
Commercial policy--Environmental aspects.
Ecology.
Economic history.
Industries--Environmental aspects.
Sustainable development--Environmental aspects.
North America--Mexican-American Border Region.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Democratizing discourses -- Space and place in the borderlands -- Investigating waste -- Environmental justice as place-making -- Environmental organizing and citizenship on the border -- Transnational networks and grassroots splintering.
Summary:
"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.
ISBN:
0826519598
9780826519597
OCLC:
(OCoLC)829645936
LCCN:
2013007846
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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