Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-s22k5 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-11T02:56:58.972Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Health and Environmental Problems: The Role of the Border in El Paso-Ciudad Juárez Coordination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

C. Richard Bath
C. Richard Bath*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, University of Texas—El Paso
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, share a common border divided by the channeled and weakly flowing Rio Grande. The twin cities, with a combined population of over a million, are located in a valley between two mountain ranges. They share a common air shed, mutual sources of water supply, and the ever-present threat of disease which, of course, does not recognize the artificial national boundary dividing the two cities.

How have the sister cities and their respective governments at the local, state, and federal levels attempted to solve their common health and environmental problems? This paper will briefly review the efforts to resolve and to solve common health and environmental problems between the two cities. What is necessary at the outset is some type of analytical framework to better understand the relations between the two cities.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , August 1982 , pp. 375 - 392
Copyright
Copyright © University of Miami 1982

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Applegate, H. (1979) Environmental Problems of the Borderlands. El Paso: Texas Western Press.Google Scholar
Bath, C. R. and James, D. (1976) “Dependency analysis of Latin America: some criticisms, some suggestions.” Latin Amer. Research Rev. 11, 3: 3–54.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Binational Health Council (1980) January 11 “Minutes.” Available at El Paso City-County Health Unit, (mimeo)Google Scholar
Carpenter, E. H. and Blackwood, L. G. (1977) “The potential for population growth in U.S. counties that border Mexico: El Paso to San Diego.” Natural Resources J. 17, 4.Google Scholar
El Paso Times (1978) February 16.Google Scholar
Davila, G. H. (1974) “Joint air pollution monitoring program developed in the cities of Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, El Paso, Texas, and Las Cruces, New Mexico,” pp. 155–169 in Applegate, G. and Bath, C. R. (eds.) Air Pollution Along the United States- Mexico Border. El Paso: Texas Western Press.Google Scholar
Gorby, E. W. (1976) “Emerging tuberculosis problems in El Paso/Juárez.” Staff Study No. 2. Texas State Department of Human Resources, El Paso, (mimeo)Google Scholar
Jamail, M. H. and Mumme, S. P. (1980) “The international boundary and water commission as an agent of conflict management in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands.” Presented to the Western Social Science Association, Albuquerque, April.Google Scholar
Keohane, R. O. and Nye, J. S. (1977) Power and Interdependence: World Politics in Transition. Boston: Little, Brown.Google Scholar
Mansbach, R. W., Ferguson, Y. H., and Lampert, D. E. (1976) The Web of World Politics: Nonstate Actor in the Global System. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.Google Scholar
Morgenthau, H. (1978) Politics Among Nations. New York: Knopf.Google Scholar
Morse, E. L. (1976) “Interdependence in world affairs,” pp. 660–681 in Rosenau, J. N., Thompson, K. W., and Boyd, G. (eds.) World Politics: An Introduction. New York: Free Press.Google Scholar
Noticias (1980) Bulletin of the United States-Mexico Border Public Health Association 5 (August).Google Scholar
Romero Alvarez, H. (1975) Health Without Boundaries: United States-Mexico Border Public Health Association. Mexico City: United States-Mexico Border Public Health Association.Google Scholar
Rosencrance, R. et al. (1977) “Whither interdependence.” Int. Organizational, 3.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Valdez, S. (1981) Personal Communication (March 3). Animal Control Division, El Paso City-County Health Unit.Google Scholar
Vehmirovic, B. [ed.] (1978) Modern Medicine and Medical Anthropology in the United States-Mexico Border Population. Washington, DC: Pan American Health Organization.Google Scholar