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Commentary: Border Sharing: Transportation and the Environment in the US-Mexico Border Region

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2009

Kristan Cockerill  and
Judith M. Espinosa
Kristan Cockerill*
Affiliation:
Columbia University, Biosphere 2 Center, Oracle, Arizona
Judith M. Espinosa
Affiliation:
Alliance for Transportation Research Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
*
Assistant Professor, Columbia University, Biosphere 2 Center, PO Box 689, Oracle, AZ 85623; (fax) 520-896-6432; (e-mail) kcockeri@bi02.edu.
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Abstract

The links between transportation and the environment have a long history in the US-Mexico border region. Modern attempts to increase and improve transportation in the region have generated the need for reliable information concerning the border environment. To help meet this need, researchers at the Alliance for Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) created a unique resource for Border Region Information on Transportation and the Environment (BRITE). BRITE's purpose is to provide relevant environmental information to governmental and nongovernmental agencies, interest groups, and individuals working along the US-Mexico border. ATRI continues to build BRITE in segments specific to environmental media. BRITE is as much a process as a product and it will never be “complete.” This paper discusses how state and local planners as well as interest groups might best utilize the information available in BRITE to develop sound environmental policy to enable the region to promote sustainable transportation.

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Environmental Practice , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , September 2000 , pp. 259 - 263
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Copyright © National Association of Environmental Professionals 2000

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