TY - JOUR
T1 - ...to the Sea of Cortés
T2 - Nature, water, culture, and livelihood in the Lower Colorado River Basin and Delta - An overview of issues, policies, and approaches to environmental restoration
AU - Varady, Robert G.
AU - Hankins, Katherine B.
AU - Kaus, Andrea
AU - Young, Emily
AU - Merideth, Robert
N1 - Funding Information:
1The ‘2to the Sea of CorteH s’ symposium and workshop represents the convergence of the border environment programs of the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at The University of Arizona and the University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States (UC MEXUS). For the Udall Center, the event was the third in a series of programs sponsored by the Ford Foundation addressing U.S.-Mexico border environmental issues. The first program was held in Cuernavaca in November 1997 on the subject of the drought of 1995}1996; it was organized by the late Professor Albert Utton of the University of New Mexico School of Law. The second program treated transboundary groundwater issues and took place in La Paz in February 1999; the organizer was Professor Helen Ingram, the Warmington Chair at the University of California at Irvine. For UC MEXUS, the ‘Sea of CorteH s’ event was the third in a series of meetings as part of the Institute’s Border Water Program, which was supported by funds from the University of California Office of the President. Established in 1997, the Program arose in response to a growing recognition of the need for binational interdisciplinary approaches from the scientific community to address critical water issues and policy along the California segment of the U.S.-Mexico border. The first meeting, ‘The UC-Mexico Salton Sea Workshop’, was held on 29}30 October 1998, in Riverside, California, and the second meeting, ‘Water, Energy, and the Quality of Life in the Imperial and Mexicali Valleys’, was held on 8}11 November 1998, at the Universidad AutoH noma de Baja California in Mexicali, Baja California.
Funding Information:
The authors are grateful for financial support from the Ford Foundation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 9, the U.S. Department of the Interior, the University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States (UC MEXUS), and the Morris K. Udall Foundation. In addition the Centro de InvestigacioH n CmH entmH fica y de EducacioH n Superior de Ensenada (CICESE) co-hosted the event in Riverside and helped organize it. That assistance made possible the present essay as well as the fall 2000 event in Riverside, California, from which this work derives. In particular, we thank Norman Collins, the now-retired Ford Foundation representative in Mexico; Wendy Laird-Benner and Eugenia McNaughton of EPA in San Francisco; Susan Lieberman-Goodwin of Interior; Juan Vicente Palerm and Marlene de la Cruz of UC MEXUS; and the members of the binational conference planning committee, who generously contributed their expertise.
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - This paper offers an overview of issues, policies, and approaches to the environmental restoration of the Lower Colorado River Basin and Delta. The observations and analysis are based on a symposium and workshop held in Riverside, California, 29 September to 2 October 2000. The binational River-side event brought together stakeholders representing most of the relevant interests to discuss perceived problems and solutions to seven topics: historical policy and legal matters; the ecological connectivity of the Colorado River, its Delta and Upper Sea of Cortés; the allocation and valuation of the waters of the Colorado River; community and cultural concerns relating to the Delta region, water quality, wildlife conservation, and future directions for the watershed.
AB - This paper offers an overview of issues, policies, and approaches to the environmental restoration of the Lower Colorado River Basin and Delta. The observations and analysis are based on a symposium and workshop held in Riverside, California, 29 September to 2 October 2000. The binational River-side event brought together stakeholders representing most of the relevant interests to discuss perceived problems and solutions to seven topics: historical policy and legal matters; the ecological connectivity of the Colorado River, its Delta and Upper Sea of Cortés; the allocation and valuation of the waters of the Colorado River; community and cultural concerns relating to the Delta region, water quality, wildlife conservation, and future directions for the watershed.
KW - Colorado River Delta
KW - Culture
KW - Environmental restoration
KW - Nature
KW - Policies
KW - Water
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U2 - 10.1006/jare.2001.0842
DO - 10.1006/jare.2001.0842
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0034792289
SN - 0140-1963
VL - 49
SP - 195
EP - 209
JO - Journal of Arid Environments
JF - Journal of Arid Environments
IS - 1
ER -