NAFTA AND TRANSBOUNDARY ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECOLOGICAL HEALTH ISSUES

摘要

The border region between the United States and Mexico has become a modern day focal point for international partnership-building, particularly in issues relating to trans-boundary environmental and ecological health. In 1983, the La Paz Agreement on Environmental Cooperation was signed by both countries as the basis for an unprecedented cooperative effort to better protect, conserve and improve the environment, and to address historic environmental problems. It became apparent, however, that more was needed to fully address transboundary border environmental problems.