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Stephen P. Mumme
stephen.mumme@colostate.edu
Stephen Mumme currently works with the Department of Political Science at Colorado State University. With his dissertation The United States-Mexico Groundwater Conflict: Domestic Influence on Foreign Policy, Mumme received his doctorate in 1982, from the University of Arizona. His field specializations include comparative environmental politics and U.S.-Mexico border environmental management, and he teaches classes such as comparative government and politics, comparative environmental politics and policy and Latin American politics. In 2003, Stephen Mumme served as visiting faculty with CLE International Law of the Rio Grande in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In addition, in 1998 he received a fellowship and was named a Fulbright-Hays Senior Scholar with El Colegio de Sonora, in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, where he served an eight-month appointment.
Publications:
Democratic Transition, Decentralization, and Local Capacity for Environmental Policy-Making: Lessons from Hungary and Mexico, (forthcoming) Social Science Journal, Vol. 41, No. 3 (2004). With Valerie Assetto and Eva Hajba.
Decentralization and Citizen Participation in Transboundary Water Management: Lessons from Hungary and Mexico. In David Newman, Alisdair Cooke, and Clive Schofield, eds., The Razor's Edge: International Boundaries and Political Geography. London: Kluwer Press, 2002. With Valerie Assetto.
Q&A: Expert sees eventual cross-border market for water: Interview with Steve Mumme, EcoAmericas, Vol. 4, No. 12 (October 2002).
Water Management on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Mandate Challenges for Binational Institutions, in The Future of the U.S.-Mexican Border. Washington, D.C.: Environmental Change and Security Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Published in 2002 in electronic format at http://ecsp.si.edu/tijuana-mp.htm. With Nicolas Pineda. Forthcoming in Spanish language version entitled Administración del Agua en la Frontera México-Estados Unidos: Retos de Mandato para las Instituciones Binacionales. Alfonso Cortes, coordinador, Tijuana: Colegio de Estudios Fronterizos.
Research Abstract: Improving Binational Water Management
This paper reviews the existing institutional framework for binational water management for the purpose of identifying current lacunae and problems in the present binational approach and suggesting the most promising avenues of institutional reform. The most important determinant of the probable success of various proposals for improving the current system of binational water management is whether the reform options placed on the table are "treaty compatible" and whether they contribute to advancing the logic of sustainable development in the management of trans-border water resources. A number of reforms are feasible when judged by these standards, including mandate enhancement for the International Boundary and Water Commission, strengthening the technical assessment, advisory, and strategic planning process, and working toward better binational coordination of effort in matters of drought, groundwater, ecology, and other aspects of water conservation.
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