Book Review
Abstract
10.1177/1070496503257747 REVIEW JOURNALOF ENVIRONMENT & DEVELOPMENTBOOK REVIEW BOOKREVIEW Both Sides of the Border: Transboundary Environmental Management Issues Facing Mexico and the United States edited by Linda Fernandez and Richard T. Carson. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002. 501 pp. U.S. $25.00 (paperback) (ISBN 1559639849). Both Sides of the Border: Transboundary Environmental Management Issues Facing Mexico and the United States, edited by Linda Fernandez and Richard Carson, is a comprehensive investigation of the U.S.-Mexico border environment. Based on the premise that issues dealing with the environment are multidisciplinary, the editors bring together research- ersandexpertsofseveraldisciplines, manyofwhomareacademicswith a variety of backgrounds in both the social and natural sciences. Through an extensive series of articles, this book highlights problems threatening the border environment, analyzes the potential of current efforts to address these problems, and proposes solutions. The edited volume is divided into six sections. The first section, Law Politics, and Institutions for a Border Environment, provides relevant back- ground information on environmentalpolicy along theborder. Drawing on much of his previous publications, Mark Spalding begins this section by listing the federal agencies working on the structural and environ- mental problems in the border region. He then proceeds to analyze the transnational efforts to coordinate