US-Mexico Border Environmental Health Initiative

International borders politically divide the landscape but rarely represent barriers for environmental issues. The major issues surrounding the U.S.-Mexico border involve economics and population growth that present challenges to environmental management and natural resource planning. To monitor trends and analyze the stresses to the environment, bi-nationally integrated baseline datasets that portray the status of the landscape are needed. Geographic data are readily available for both countries, but the data lack a structured framework and compatibility in terms of temporal and positional scale and consistent quality. The primary objective of this project is to develop an integrated, Web-based, environmental resource database for display and further analysis within a geographic information system (GIS) framework.

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