UC Toxics News: Spring/Summer 2000
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California-Mexico Environmental Issues Explored in TSR&TP-sponsored Conference by Jerry Last |
In early June 2000, the TSR&TP co-sponsored the Binational Conference on Environmental Research and Policy, organized by the new NIEHS Superfund Grant at UC San Diego. The conference addressed issues of mutual concern between the U.S. and Mexico.
The stated objective of this conference
was to provide the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
with a strategic agenda and criteria for supporting future research on U.S.-Mexico
related environmental problems. The conference stressed binational issues, with
an emphasis on the California/Baja California border region. Participants hope
to show how a strategic coalition of academicians, scientists, community-based
organizations, policy-makers in federal and local agencies, and industry with
binational and border interests can be organized to pursue common problems.
Specific themes addressed included Hazardous Waste Management, Industrial Ecology
and Environmental Management Systems, Biomedical Research, Bioremediation, Water
Quality in Regional Bays, Estuaries, and Coastal Zones, Prevention / Intervention
Research with a Public Health Approach Geared to U.S.-Mexico Cross Border and
Transnational Issues, Air Pollution and Global Climate Change,and Enabling Multi-disciplinary
Approaches to Environmental Research, Education and Training in the U.S.-Mexico
Trans-border Context. The binational dialogue that was initiated in San Diego
will continue on a web-based
discussion group.
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