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DOI | 10.1029/2019WR026068 |
Groundwater Management in the Borderlands of Mexico and Texas: The Beauty of the Unknown, the Negligence of the Present, and the Way Forward | |
Sanchez, Rosario1; Eckstein, Gabriel2 | |
2020-03-01 | |
发表期刊 | WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH |
ISSN | 0043-1397 |
EISSN | 1944-7973 |
出版年 | 2020 |
卷号 | 56期号:3 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA |
英文摘要 | Over the last decade, transboundary aquifers traversing the Mexico-Texas border have generated growing interest of federal institutions on the Mexico side and state and federal institutions on the Texas side. Notwithstanding this, binational efforts to understand, assess, and manage shared groundwater resources remain limited and politically sensitive. On the Mexico side, long-standing centralized groundwater governance structures have created institutional barriers at the local level to the expansion of knowledge and cooperation over these transboundary resources. On the Texas side, property rights related to groundwater resources limit the scope of options available for cooperative management of cross-border aquifers. This paper examines stakeholders' perspectives on the borderland between Mexico and Texas through 44 surveys and personal interviews. Findings show that stakeholders appear to support a binational groundwater agreement as a means for assuring the sound long-term management of transboundary groundwater resources in the border region; however, the majority of stakeholders also suggest that short-term local or regional arrangements may be preferable over binational agreements as local/regional approaches may be more achievable or realistic. Second, participants identified leadership and individual personalities as key factors for success at the local level but noted that such influence had limited sustainability and limited regional-systemic effects. Third, the stakeholders indicated that water quality, rather than water quantity, is the main driver of transboundary cooperation efforts in the region. Fourth, participants suggested that failures and successes in groundwater cooperation efforts are based more on fear and political lobbying than on understanding of scientific facts. |
领域 | 资源环境 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000538000800047 |
WOS关键词 | UNITED-STATES ; TRANSBOUNDARY AQUIFERS |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Limnology ; Water Resources |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Marine & Freshwater Biology ; Water Resources |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/280567 |
专题 | 资源环境科学 |
作者单位 | 1.Texas A&M Univ, Texas Water Resources Inst, College Stn, TX 77843 USA; 2.Texas A&M Univ, Sch Law, College Stn, TX USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Sanchez, Rosario,Eckstein, Gabriel. Groundwater Management in the Borderlands of Mexico and Texas: The Beauty of the Unknown, the Negligence of the Present, and the Way Forward[J]. WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH,2020,56(3). |
APA | Sanchez, Rosario,&Eckstein, Gabriel.(2020).Groundwater Management in the Borderlands of Mexico and Texas: The Beauty of the Unknown, the Negligence of the Present, and the Way Forward.WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH,56(3). |
MLA | Sanchez, Rosario,et al."Groundwater Management in the Borderlands of Mexico and Texas: The Beauty of the Unknown, the Negligence of the Present, and the Way Forward".WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH 56.3(2020). |
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