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Border Institute IX

What: Border Institute IX (BI-IX) “Security, Development, and the Environment in the Binational U.S.-Mexican Border Region,” presented by the Southwest Consortium for Environmental Research and Policy (SCERP), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, la Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales de México (SEMARNAT), the Border Trade Alliance, and the U.S.-Mexico Chamber of Commerce.

Where: The Hotel Encanto at Las Cruces, New Mexico is the meeting venue. Spouses and/or partners are welcome. Although participants will be busy with the work of the Institute, there will be evening social functions to which guests are invited. The Hotel Encanto at Las Cruces also has many excellent activities and facilities.

Why: The immediate objective of BI-IX is to answer the following questions:

• How can security concerns at the border be harmonized with the transborder region’s need for environmental quality and sustainable development?
  
  
• How can SCERP study, understand, and disseminate information about the binational environmental, ecological, health, and other consequences (both positive and negative, but especially transboundary) of the current and planned security activities and infrastructure?
  
  
• Furthermore, what remedial and potentially reprioritizing policies should be recommended that will respect and accommodate the security context and the environmental and developmental needs of the U.S-Mexican binational border region?
  

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