The Native Nations Institute(NNI), under the auspices of

NNI TV/Radio, is launching anew ten-part radio series, “NativeNation Building,” on January 24,2006, via the AIROS Native RadioNetwork and its tribal and publicradio affiliates across the UnitedStates and Canada.

“‘Native Nation Building’ isdesigned to share with Nativepeople and the general public thelessons about indigenous self-gov-ernance and economic develop-ment that NNI has learnedthrough more than two decades ofcommunity-based research withNative nations,” said NNI direc-tor Manley A. Begay, Jr., a citizenof the Navajo Nation.

Featuring a notable group ofguests that ranges from govern-mental, business, and communityleaders to scholars and educators,the roundtable interview programchronicles the growing number ofnation-building success stories cur-rently taking hold across IndianCountry and explores the roots ofthose successes.

“The ten program segmentsexamine different aspects ofwhere, how, and why indigenousnation building is taking place, aswell as fundamental issues thataffect Native nations’ efforts toexercise sovereignty, restore eco-nomic vitality, and shape theirown futures,” said Ian Record,NNI’s curriculum developmentmanager and producer of NNITV/Radio.

Each 30-minute segment (seesidebar) can stand alone, buttaken together, the series offers acomprehensive overview of theways Native nations are workingto make self-determined commu-nity and economic development areality.

To hear samples from each ofthe program segments, visit theNNI Radio homepage atwww.nni.arizona.edu/nniradio.

For more information, contactIan Record, NNI’s curriculumdevelopment manager, at recordi@email.arizona.edu or(520) 626-0664.

u d a l l c e n t e r u p d a t eNews from the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at the University of Arizona

“Native Nation Building” Radio Series to Premiere Nationally

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NNI TV/Radio panelists Stephen Cornell (left) and Manley Begay (center) with host Mary Kim Titla

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Native Nations Institute TV/RadioBeginning January 2006

Hosts: Mary Kim Titla (San Carlos Apache) and Mark St. PierreProducer: Ian Record

Associate Producer: Jay Stauss (Jamestown S’Klallam)

PROGRAMS

Introduction to Nation BuildingStephen Cornell and Manley Begay (Navajo)

Constitutions and Constitutional ReformSophie Pierre (Ktunaxa) and Joseph P. Kalt

Why the Rule of Law and Tribal Justice Systems Matter

Robert Williams (Lumbee) and Robert Yazzie (Navajo)

Building and Sustaining Tribal EnterprisesLance Morgan (Winnebago) and Kenneth Grant

Promoting Tribal Citizen EntrepreneursElsie Meeks (Oglala Lakota) and Joan Timeche (Hopi)

A Capable Bureaucracy: The Key to Good Government

Urban Giff (Gila River) and Joan Timeche (Hopi)

Tribal Service Delivery: Meeting Citizens’ NeedsEddie Brown (Pascua Yaqui/Tohono O’odham) and

Karen Diver (Fond du Lac Chippewa)

Intergovernmental and Intertribal RelationsJaime Pinkham (Nez Perce) and Sarah Hicks (Alutiiq)

Strategy and Leadership: The Path to Self-Determination

Peterson Zah (Navajo) and Angela Russell (Crow)

Moving Towards Nation BuildingManley Begay (Navajo) and Stephen Cornell

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R E S E A R C H

With the recent printing of Protectingthe Fish and Eating Them, Too (see

sidebar), the Udall Center inaugurates anew format for its public-policy mono-graphs: books.

Under the imprint, Udall Center Pub-lications, the books will support the Cen-ter’s mission of research and outreachrelated to environmental policy, immigra-tion policy, and indigenous nations policy.

In addition, Udall Center Publicationswill solicit manuscripts from collaborat-ing faculty and researchers at the Univer-sity of Arizona, particularly Udall CenterFellows, and collegues at other institu-tions.

The books will be published as small-format, library-quality paperback edi-tions (ranging in lengths of 50 to 100pages) and also will be offered as PDFfiles on the Center’s Web site.

For more, contact Robert Merideth,editor in chief, Udall Center Publications,at merideth@email.arizona.edu or (520)626-4393.

Udall Center LaunchesBook Imprint

Winner of the 2005 Lillian S. Fisher Prize in Environmental Law and Public Policy46 pages $6.00 ISBN 1-931143-25-0

The scarcity of water in the American West and theincreased demands for the resource have created

much tension of late between tribes, endangeredspecies advocates, and the holders of water rightsgranted by the states for non-Native consumptiveuses.

As tribes actively quantify their water rights andpursue development projects that enable them to usethe water, they are faced with a seemingly insur-mountable problem: how can tribes ensure the protec-tion of critical habitats for endangered and threat-ened species under the Endangered Species Act and atthe same time avoid impacts to future tribal econom-

ic development in the face of federal consumptive-water-use restrictions?Lester provides a general overview of tribal water rights followed by a description of

the Endangered Species Act, specifically the requirements imposed by the act that providefor the protection of habitat for listed species. Next, she offers a discussion about the inter-section of critical habitat designation and the development of consumptive water use onreservation lands and presents a case study of the critical habitat designation of the silveryminnow in the Middle Rio Grande River, N.M. She concludes with an evaluation of tribal andagency recommendations regarding critical habitat designation in Indian Country and setsout further recommendations for protecting both species habitat and tribal sovereignty.

Protecting the Fish and Eating Them, Tooby Lauren Lester

Bureau oof LLand MManagementThe Native Nations Institute was recently awarded $13,000by the Bureau of Land Management to assist the agency indeveloping alternate-dispute-resolution (ADR) policies andstrategies–specifically, early communication and consultativeprocesses–related to the bureau's decisionmaking processesinvolving tribal governments. Joan Timeche, NNI's assistantdirector, serves as principal investigator for the project.

Morris KK. UUdall FFoundationThe Udall Center received $296,000 from the Morris K.Udall Foundation to support an annual workplan of activitiesrelated to indigenous nations policy, environmental policy andconflict resolution, publications, a policy workshop, andmaintenance of the Udall Archives and related library pro-

grams at the University of Arizona Library. Udall Centerdirector Stephen Cornell and deputy director Robert Varadyserve as co-principal investigators for the workplan activities.

W. KK. KKellogg FFoundationThe W. K. Kellogg Foundation has awarded the NativeNations Institute $75,000 to support a preliminary projectthat explores conceptions of governance among indigenouspeoples in the United States, Canada, and Australia. The proj-ect includes a set of conversations between indigenous leadersfrom the three continents about what governance means tothem and the forms governance takes in their communities.Udall Center director Stephen Cornell is principal investiga-tor on the project.

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The University of Arizona LibrarySpecial Collections houses the

papers of Morris K. Udall, Stewart L.Udall, David K. Udall, Levi Udall andJesse Udall. The library’s holdingsalso include related papers of notedpoliticians Dennis DeConcini, LewisDouglas, Henry Ashurst, and GeorgeHunt.

To encourage faculty, independentresearchers, and students to use thesematerials, the Udall Archives ResearchTravel Grant awards up to two $1,000research travel grants per year. Prefer-ence is given to projects relating toissues addressed by Morris K. Udalland Stewart L. Udall during their longcareers of public service: environment,natural resources, Native Americanpolicy, conservation, nuclear energy,

public policy theory, and environmen-tal conflict resolution.

Recent recipients of travel grantsinclude Douglas Harris, a professor ofpolitical science at Loyola College, whoinvestigated Morris Udall's influence incrafting liberal coalitions to secureleadership positions in the U.S. Houseof Representatives, and Daniel Cobb, aprofessor of history at Miami Universi-ty of Ohio, who used the papers ofStewart Udall and other materials tohelp analyze how the notion of tribalself-determination moved from theperiphery to the center of U.S. politicsduring the 1960s.

Eligibility: The grants are open toscholars, students, and independentresearchers.

Awards: The $1,000 research grantssupport only travel (and relatedexpenses) to Tucson, Ariz.

Application procedures: Applicationsare accepted and reviewed throughoutthe year. Mail a completed applicationform with three sets of the followingmaterials: (1) a brief essay (2-4 pages)describing your research interests andspecific goals of your proposed project,and (2) a resume or curriculum vitae(2-3 pages).

Support for the Udall Archives travel grants comes via the Udall Center’s annual workplan funded bythe Morris K. Udall Foundation.

For more information, contact AmaraEdwards, assistant archivist and librarian,at edwardsamara@u.library.arizona.eduor (520) 307-2817.

Research Travel Grants Available to Study Udall Archives

History's LLesson ffor HHUD aand TTribesby Miriam JorgensenJOPNA No. 2004-01 43pp. PDF 227KB

In 1998, Indian housing entered a new era. The Departmentof Housing and Urban Development (HUD) ended its prac-tice of channeling funds for Washington-designed Indianhousing programs to HUD-sponsored local Indian HousingAuthorities (IHAs) and converted programmatic funds intoblock grants to tribal housing agencies, which were allowedto design and implement their own programs.

“The hope was that increased tribal control would great-ly improve the quantity and quality of housing available inIndian Country,” said Miriam Jorgensen, NNI’s associatedirector of research. Jorgensen is author of a 2004 reportrecently made available in the Joint Occasional Papers onNative Affairs series, co-published by NNI and the HarvardProject on American Indian Economic Development.

In this paper, Jorgensen analyzes the differential successof the IHAs and provides important information about theconditions under which the new tribal efforts will be suc-cessful. Her results suggest that unless the new approachaddresses core issues of tribal governance, it will be inade-quate for real reform of Indian housing.

“IHAs that have access to capable judicial, political,bureaucratic, and socio-cultural governance mechanisms arebetter able to enforce rent payment, deter vandals, and con-strain official opportunism,” said Jorgensen, “and these arefactors that negatively affect IHA performance.”

And according to Jorgensen, IHAs located in environ-ments that lacked such governance institutions are less ableto develop and maintain the community’s housing resources.

“Thus, unless tribal housing program development pro-ceeds hand-in-hand with tribal institutional development,the promise of new, tribally controlled programs may gounfulfilled,” she concludes.

jopnaJoint OOccasional PPapers oon NNative AAffairs ((JOPNA)

On a recent, cold November morn-ing, students and teachers from

Pima Vocational High School dippedtheir nets and test tubes into the SanPedro River and, amid the streamsidevegetation and birdsong, discovered thesurprising beauty of a desert river.

Under the auspices of theECOSTART program, the group, fromnearby Sierra Vista, Ariz., began theirday’s venture with a stop at San PedroHouse, the point of access into the SanPedro Riparian National ConservationArea, a 40-mile riparian corridor, run-ning from the U.S.-Mexico bordernorthward into Arizona. The corridor ismanaged by the Bureau of Land Man-agement.

At San Pedro House, the grouplearned to “read the land” from a largetopographic map of the San Pedrowatershed, then trekked to the river tobegin their foray into environmentaleducation. Before this visit, none of thestudents had seen a flowing river in Ari-zona.

ECOSTART – now moving into itsthird phase with support from ArizonaProject WET, the Morris K. Udall

Foundation, and the University of Ari-zona Foundation – aims to educateteachers and students about the SanPedro River and how citizens and com-munities can help the survival of theriver’s ecosystem.

The San Pedro River and its associat-ed habitat represent a premier wildlifecorridor in an otherwise harsh andsemiarid landscape. The delicate bal-ance of the river’s flow, arising fromsurface and groundwater sources, isnow subject to significate alteration dueto the combination of the region’s cli-mate and the increasing consumptiveneeds of the area’s booming economy.

The group from Pima VocationalHigh School participated inECOSTART through the school’s“Poetry, Spirit and Water: Saving aThreatened River Project.”

Another group of teachers fromnearby Buena High School visited theSan Pedro as part of a two-day, contin-uing-education workshop, also inNovember. The teachers aspired toimprove their understanding of thegeography and ecological processesassociated with the river and to develop

curriculum content through which theycould use the river as a natural laborato-ry for teaching their students.

The teachers learned how publicpolicy and planning, ranging from thelocal to the international level, can playa strong role in water quality and in thequantity of the river’s flow.

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ECOSTART Draws Teachers, Students to the RiverConnecting field observations with individual actions and public policyby AAnne BBrowning-AAiken, FFloyd GGray, aand DDenisse FFisher

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High-school teachers and students participat-ed in November 2005 in ECOSTART’s class-room and field exercises along the San PedroRiver near Sierra Vista, Ariz.

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With support from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation,the Native Nations Institute hosted representativesfrom Reconciliation Australia – Jason Glanville, pol-icy and partnerships director; Tanya Hosch, projectmanager for the Australian Indigenous LeadershipCentre meeting; and Rowena Withers, IndigenousGovernance Awards project coordinator – on atwo-week fact-finding trip to meet with indigenousleaders from across the United States.

Reconciliation Australia is an independent, non-government foundation, based in Canberra, estab-lished by Australia’s Council for Aboriginal Recon-ciliation to provide national leadership on reconcil-iation (see www.reconciliationaustralia.org).

The visit was part of an ongoing collaborativepartnership, commencing in 2002, between NNI,Reconciliation Australia, and other institutions inAustralia interested in indigenous goverance.

“The visit showed persuasively that a dialoguebetween aboriginal Australian and Americanindigenous leaders about the nature of indigenousgovernance could produce insights and learning onboth sides,” said Stephen Cornell, director of theUdall Center and coordinator of the exchangeprogram.

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In October 2005, hosted by the Tohono O'od-ham Nation, the board met in Tucson, Ariz., to dis-cuss topics related to border security and the envi-ronment.

For more information on the Good NeighborEnvironmental Board, contact Elaine Koerner atkoerner.elaine@epa.gov.

NNI HHosts AAustralian VVisitors tto EExploreIndigenous GGovernance (A) Reconciliation Australia

representatives Tanya Hosch(left) and Jason Glanville(center) met in Albuquerque,N.M., with Regis Pecos, formergovernor of Cochiti Puebloand chief of staff to New Mex-ico’s Speaker of the House ofRepresentatives. (B) In WindowRock, Ariz., Reconciliation Aus-tralia representatives Glanville(left) and Hosch (right) met withRobert Yazzie (center), retiredChief Justice of the NavajoNation Supreme Court. Recon-ciliation Australia’s RowenaWithers, also participating inthe tour, is behind the camerain both photographs.

Judith Gans (left), man-ager of the Udall Cen-ter's Immigration PolicyProgram, provided anoverview to the boardon the history, context,and policy dimensionsof immigration in theUnited States.

Udall Center deputydirector, RobertVarady (foreground,seated at the right)serves as a member ofthe board (see relatedarticle on page 8).

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Elusive IIdentity: LLessons ffrom aan NNGO oon MMexi-co’s NNorthern BBorderby Emily M. Brott and Anne Browning-AikenPresents the results of a survey of members of the Aso-ciación Regional Ambiental Sonora-Arizona (Sonora-Ari-zona Regional Environmental Association, or ARASA), ayoung Mexican environmental grassroots group that hasfaced substantial threats to its survival and efficacy. Theresearch assesses strategies for strengthening the groupand offers potentially useful suggestions for other organ-izations facing similar issues. 2003 27p. ISBN 1-931143-24-2 $5

Saving tthe SSierra: AAlternative MMechanisms ffor CCon-serving NNorthern MMexico’s LLast WWild PPlacesby Mich Coker Assesses the current state of biodiversity conservation inMexico and explores several mechanisms for securingpermanent conservation status for Mexican lands. Strate-gies include establishing conservation easements, build-ing alliances with transnational corporations, educatinglocal communities and regional governments, enforcinginternational obligations, as well as the outright purchaseof biologically-rich lands. 2003 20p. ISBN 1-931143-22-6 $4

... tto tthe SSea oof CCortes: NNature, WWater, CCulture,and LLivelihood iin tthe LLower CColorado RRiver BBasinand DDelta: SSymposium aand WWorkshop DDigestby Robert G. Varady, Andrea Kaus, RobertMerideth, and Katherine Hankins Provides a comprehensive review of this conference, heldin Riverside, CA, in 2000, which brought together adiverse set of over 200 stakeholders, scholars, and policy-makers from the United States and Mexico to discuss thefuture of the Lower Colorado River Basin and Delta. Par-ticipants debated the roles and responsibilities of variousstakeholders and laid a groundwork for future policy andresearch agendas in this area.2003 ISBN 1-931143-23-4 $7

Beyond TTransboundary EEnvironmental CCoopera-tion: CCivil SSociety aand PPolicy OOutcomes oon ttheU.S.-MMexico BBorderby Basilio Verduzco Analyzes the relationship between the mobilization ofcivil society and the development and implementation oftransboundary environmental institutions, such as theBorder Environmental Cooperation Commission, in theU.S.-Mexico border region. Suggests avenues for theexpansion of transboundary cooperation.2003 26p. ISBN 1-931143-21-8 $5

Binational WWatershed CCouncils aas IInstruments fforConflict RResolution iin tthe UUpper SSanta CCruzWatershedby Christopher Brown Explores opportunities for watershed approaches towater-resource problems in the Upper Santa Cruz RiverBasin along the U.S.-Mexico border (Arizona and Sono-ra) and discusses the utility such approaches may offer inresolving cross-border water conflicts.2002 25p. ISBN 1-931143-18-8 $5

Collaborative CConservation iin TTheory aand PPractice:A LLiterature RReviewby Alex Conley and Ann Moote Brings together a selected, representative sampling of theacademic, popular, and gray literature, and introduces thereader to over 300 publications addressing many differ-ent disciplines—from watershed management to demo-cratic theory, from international development to alterna-tive dispute resolution. 2001 33p. ISBN 1-931143-13-7 $6

Feasibility oof PPurchase aand TTransfer oof WWater fforInstream FFlow iin tthe CColorado RRiver DDelta, MMexi-coby Peter W. Culp Presents an overview of the developing legal regime thatgoverns the allocation of water on the Colorado River andasserts that voluntary purchases and transfers of waterprovide a simple method of assuring a reliable and polit-ically palatable supply of water for the Delta. Proposes theclearest means to overcoming barriers to doing so anddiscusses the potential reductions in river salinity thatcould result from a delta flow program if the right sourceof water is chosen.2001 45p. ISBN 1-931143-14-5 $7

Resources ffor EEnvironmental CConflict RResolution:Selected BBibliographies, DDatabases, aand PPublica-tionsby Gwen Alexander and Rachel Yaseen Provides an annotated bibliography of bibliographies inthe area of environmental conflict resolution, includingresourcfes on collaborative conservation, communitydevelopment and strategic planning, ecosystem manage-ment, and resource allocation, among other relevantsubjects.2000 24p. ISBN 1-931143-03-X $3

Assessing RResearch NNeeds: AA SSummary oof aa WWork-shop oon CCommunity-bbased CCollaborativesby Ann Moote, Alex Conley, Karen Firehock, andFrank Dukes Summarizes discussions held during a 1999 meeting inTucson among academics, professional mediators andfacilitators, collaborative group participants, federalagency employees, and environmental activists on the roleof research in informing and assessing community-basedapproaches to managing natural resources. 2000 20p. ISBN 1-931143-04-8 $4

Conflict oon tthe CCulebra! AA RRole PPlaying SSimulationGame ffor TTeaching EEnvironmental CConflict RReso-lution TTechniquesby Rick Yarde, Robert Merideth, and Susan Mood-ieA simulation exercise that aims to facilitate conflict reso-lution in a western watershed. By simulating environ-mental conflicts, the program encourages stakeholders(ranchers, farmers, environmentalists, developers, waterplanners, and other interested citizens) to assume rolesother than their own and enact the conflict scenario withfacilitators.1999 24p. ISBN 1-931143-05-6 $5

Trouble iin TTortuga! AA RRole PPlaying SSimulationGame ffor TTeaching EEnvironmental CConflict RReso-lution TTechniquesby Kirk Emerson, Hal Movius, and RobertMeridethA simulation exercise that aims to facilitate conflict reso-lution in a western rangeland. By simulating environmen-tal conflicts, the program encourages stakeholders(ranchers, environmentalists, developers, district rangers,and other interested citizens) to assume roles other thantheir own and enact the conflict scenario with facilitators. 1999 24p. ISBN 1-931143-06-4 $5

Environmental CConflict RResolution iin tthe WWestedited by Kirk Emerson, Rick Yarde, and TanyaHeikkilaOffers panel and presentation summaries from the “Envi-ronmental Conflict Resolution in the West Conference,”held in Tucson, Arizona, in April 1997. Topics include therole of science in western environmental dispute resolu-tion, cross-cultural challenges in western environmentalconflicts, and managing intergovernmental conflict,among others. 1997 242p. ISBN 1-931143-08-0 $10

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Udall CCenter UUpdateNo. 29, January 2006ISSN 1540-3424

Udall Center Update is published quarterly bythe Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy atthe University of Arizona.

Robert Merideth, EditorColleen Loomis, Graphic Designer

Udall Center for Studies in Public PolicyThe University of Arizona803 E. First St., Tucson, AZ 85719Phone: (520) 626-4393Fax: (520) 626-3664E-mail: udallctr@u.arizona.edu

Stephen Cornell, DirectorRobert G. Varady, Deputy Director &

Director of Environmental Programs Manley A. Begay, Jr., Director, Native

Nations InstituteJoan Timeche, Assistant Director, Native

Nations InstituteMiriam Jorgensen, Associate Director for

Research, Native Nations Institute

Kim Abraham, Administrative AssociateAnne Browning-Aiken, Program Manager,

Environmental Policy and Community Collaboration

Rose Chischillie, Senior Office Specialist, Native Nations Institute

Emily Dellinger, Research and Editorial AssociatePamela Dixon, Senior ReceptionistClaudia Duran, Accounting SpecialistColleen Loomis, Graphic DesignerRobert Merideth, Editor in Chief, Udall

Center PublicationsRaymond Naito, Senior Systems AnalystMonica Nichols, Administrative Associate,

Native Nations Institute Stephanie Carroll Rainie, Operations

Manager and Research Coordinator, Native Nations Institute

Ian Record, Curriculum Development Manager, Native Nations Institute

Donna Sloan, Business ManagerRachel Starks, Research Analyst, Native

Nations InstituteLizet Villagrana, Senior Receptionist

The Udall Center specializes in applied policyresearch and outreach in the areas of: (1) envi-ronmental policy, primarily in the Southwest andU.S.-Mexico border region; (2) immigration poli-cy of the United States; and (3) indigenousnations policy, with a focus on indigenous selfgovernance and economic development in theUnited States, Canada, and elsewhere.udallcenter.arizona.edu

The Native Nations Institute for Leadership,Management, and Policy (NNI) - founded by theMorris K. Udall Foundation and the University ofArizona, and housed at the Udall Center - servesas a self-determination, self-governance, anddevelopment resource for indigenous nations inthe United States, Canada, and elsewhere.nni.arizona.edu

Under the auspices of the University ofArizona’s Indigenous Peoples Law andPolicy Program in the John E. Rogers Col-lege of Law, Stephen CCornell and JoanTimeche conducted an executive educa-tion session in October for the membersof the council of the Cold Lake FirstNation from Alberta, Canada.

In November, Cornell, Timeche, andMiriam JJorgensen attended the 62ndannual session of the National Congress ofAmerican Indians, held in Tulsa, Okla.Accompanying the trio were representa-tives from Reconciliation Australia visitingthe United States through the KelloggFoundation-funded program, “ExploringIndigenous Governance” (see related arti-cle on page 5).

And in December, Cornell spent twoweeks in Australia as part of an ongoingexchange between the Udall Center/NNIand Reconciliation Australia and Aus-tralian National University’s Centre forAboriginal Economic Policy Research.Cornell serves as a member of the adviso-ry committee for the two organizations’Indigenous Community Governance Pro-ject. In Darwin, he met with the commit-tee and then facilitated a panel and work-shop on indigenous governance capacitybuilding. Later, Cornell met with officialsof the Northern Territories government inDarwin, and then with national govern-ment officials in Canberra, to discussindigenous policy issues.

Anne BBrowning-AAikken contributed tothree posters presented at the Fifth Annu-al Meeting of the Center for Sustainabilityof semi-Arid Hydrology and RiparianAreas (SAHRA) at the University of Ari-zona held in October: “ECOSTART: Bina-tional Environmental Education in theUpper San Pedro River Basin, Arizona andSonora” (with Denisse FFisher, a graduate

research assistant at the Udall Center, andother ECOSTART co-authors), “IncludingClimate Change into Water ResourcesManagement Decisionmaking: Applicationin the Upper San Pedro Basin” (with AleixSerrat-CCapdevila, a graduate researchassociate at the Udall Center, and otherSAHRA co-authors), and “SAHRA andUdall Center Internship: Applying Bina-tional Experiences and Technology toImprove Brazilian Water Management in aSocial Context” (with other SAHRA co-authors).

Robert VVarady attended the FourthConference of the International WaterHistory Association (IWHA) in Decemberheld at UNESCO headquarters in Paris,France. The theme of the conference was“Water and Civilization.” Varady, theIWHA’s secretary, delivered a keynoteaddress on “The International Hydrologi-cal Programme and the ‘World of Water.’”

Kimberly AAbraham is now an adminis-trative associate working with Udall Cen-ter Steve Cornell.

Emily DDellinger joined the Udall Cen-ter this January as a research and editorialassociate, working with researchers in theCenter's Environmental Policy Programsand with Udall Center Publications staff.

Katherine MMeehan, a doctoral studentin geography and regional development,has joined the Center's EnvironmentalPolicy Programs team this semester asgraduate research associate. Law studentMark BBlair began work this semester asgraduate research assistant for NNI andSuzanne SSombrero, a master’s student inpublic administration and policy alsobegan work for NNI as a graduate researchassistant.

Keith LLarrimore, a pre-computer sci-ence junior, joined the Center in Decem-ber as an undergraduate assistant.

Dr. MManuka HHenare, from the Universityof Auckland in New Zealand, was a visitingscholar at the Udall Center for two weeksin October and November. Henare isassociate dean of Mâori and Pacific devel-opment, founding director of the MiraSzászy Research Centre for Mâori andPacific Economic Development. While atthe Center, Henare worked on research

and book projects having to do with Mâorinatural resources and governance, includ-ing one on fisheries management, withManley Begay and Ian Record. His visitputs into practice an agreement reachedbetween the Udall Center and the MiraSzászy Research Centre to foster researchand scholarly exchange and cooperation.

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For more than twenty years, Robert Varady,deputy director of the Udall Center, haspursued the academic’s approach to U.S.-Mexico border environmental policy –through an active research agenda.

But, it turns out that his work, in addi-tion to producing a body of research pub-lications, has helped advance, along withthe work of other scholars, public partici-pation and dialogue related to environ-mental issues and decisionmaking in theregion.

His research began in the mid 1980swith a study of the impacts of coppersmelters on air quality in the borderregion. The effort pulled together panelsof scientists and other stakeholders to dis-cuss in an open forum the scientific,social, and policy dimensions of the issue.

The success of that model in providingthe space, or forum, in which to holdpublic dialogue on contentious environ-mental issues became the basis for manysubsequent efforts.

By 1989, Varady had become associatedirector of the Udall Center, and with theCenter’s director, Helen Ingram, and thelate Albert Utton, professor of law at theUniversity of New Mexico, initiated whatwould become a decade-long relationshipwith the Ford Foundation.

The relationship fostered the estab-lishment of binational venues in whichkey individuals from academia, govern-ment agencies, and nongovernmental

organizations met to present and shareknowledge and perspectives on borderenvironmental policy.

“When we held our first gathering in1991, there was virtually no infrastruc-ture in Mexico to support nongovern-mental environmental organizations,”said Varady, “because financial and humanresources were very limited.”

But it was at one of the Ford Founda-tion-sponsored workshops, held in 1996,that the notion was hatched on conven-ing a regular border meeting, or encuen-tro fronterizo, to encourage the growthand maturation of nongovernmentalorganizations on both sides of the border.

The first Encuentro Fronterizo washeld in Ciudad Juárez in 1998, and it andsubsequent meetings have attracted hun-dreds of individuals and NGOs.

The gatherings, organized by a bina-tional partnership of universities and

nonprofit organizations, have provided aconvergence of interests, ideas, and fund-ing to support NGOs working on envi-ronmental issues in the border region.

In 1994, the C. S. Mott Foundationjoined the Ford Foundation in fundingthe Udall Center to recommend strength-ening public participation within theemerging NAFTA-related border envi-ronmental institutions – the Commissionfor Environmental Cooperation (CEC),Border Environment Cooperation Com-mission (BECC), and the North Ameri-can Development Bank (NADBank).

One lasting outcome has been BECC-net, the Udall Center’s 11-year-old elec-tronic discussion group.

More recently, Varady has participatedas a member of the Good Neighbor Envi-ronmental Board (GNEB), an advisorybody that calls attention to particularissues related to the border environmentand advises the president and Congress.

The GNEB experience also taps intoVarady's experience as a researcher sincethe board considers issues of specialinterest and prepares explanatory andanalytical reports.

“As a researcher, I didn’t really getinvolved in this to change the world,” saidVarady, “but it is satisfying to see that realworld changes can be addressed throughscholarship – and to have had a hand inthe progress.”

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Robert Varady at the U.S.-Mexico border

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