TY - BOOK
T1 - Environmental Policy in Mexico
AU - Silva Rodríguez de San Miguel, Jorge Alejandro
PY - 2017/10/11
Y1 - 2017/10/11
N2 - Environmental policy in Mexico is a story of a developing nation struggling to care for its environmental endowment in the face of oppressive global pressures and limited domestic resources. A review of policy and legislative events from the 1990s shows us that the past generation has seen a profusion of formal proclamations and legislative initiatives aimed at enshrining in formal terms Mexico's commitment to the conservation of its own vulnerable waterways, forest lands, and marshes. However, as a systematic review of the country's 32 entities shows us, there remains a lack of robust activity at the state level, and formal declarations are rarely followed up with bureaucratic undertakings that would result in the erection of offices, institutions, architectures and practical compliance mechanisms that might discourage wasteful or slothful individuals and businesses from pursuing their reckless course. This is surely attributable, at least partly, to the country's lack of material resources, but it also shows that other concerns – such as concerns about – sometimes get in the way. Some fledgling efforts have resulted in positive outcomes in the past generation, but Mexican officials need to coordinate more, need to create specialized bureaucratic architectures that privilege enforcement and compliance, and need to recognize the strong link between environmental protection and healthful human growth and development. If they can do these things, then a happy ending can be written to a story that has seen some dark chapters.
AB - Environmental policy in Mexico is a story of a developing nation struggling to care for its environmental endowment in the face of oppressive global pressures and limited domestic resources. A review of policy and legislative events from the 1990s shows us that the past generation has seen a profusion of formal proclamations and legislative initiatives aimed at enshrining in formal terms Mexico's commitment to the conservation of its own vulnerable waterways, forest lands, and marshes. However, as a systematic review of the country's 32 entities shows us, there remains a lack of robust activity at the state level, and formal declarations are rarely followed up with bureaucratic undertakings that would result in the erection of offices, institutions, architectures and practical compliance mechanisms that might discourage wasteful or slothful individuals and businesses from pursuing their reckless course. This is surely attributable, at least partly, to the country's lack of material resources, but it also shows that other concerns – such as concerns about – sometimes get in the way. Some fledgling efforts have resulted in positive outcomes in the past generation, but Mexican officials need to coordinate more, need to create specialized bureaucratic architectures that privilege enforcement and compliance, and need to recognize the strong link between environmental protection and healthful human growth and development. If they can do these things, then a happy ending can be written to a story that has seen some dark chapters.
KW - architecture
KW - biospheres
KW - conservation
KW - enforcement
KW - environmental law
KW - environmental proprietorship
KW - pollution
U2 - 10.17993/EcoOrgyCso.2017.23
DO - 10.17993/EcoOrgyCso.2017.23
M3 - Libro
SN - 9788494780301
T3 - Economía, Organización y Ciencias Sociales
BT - Environmental Policy in Mexico
PB - 3Ciencias
CY - Alicante
ER -