CESLA

Previous Initiatives

Community Outreach:

• A symposium on environmental data for the Texas-Mexico border region, in cooperation with the Texas Water Development Board and the LBJ School of Public Affairs.
  
  
• A commitment among four universities in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico to offer joint courses on water resources management in North America.
  
  
• A two-year grant program to support fieldwork and language study by Texas graduate students in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile.

Trainings:

• A long-term cooperative agreement with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research to conduct training in environmental management, initiate intern programs, and develop joint projects.
  
  
• An agreement with the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission to provide staff to implement cooperative environmental projects between Texas and Mexico.

Conferences:

• A conference session at the 1997 meeting of the Mexican Society of Civil Engineers on sustainable environmental infrastructure development in North America.