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Measuring Conditions and Progress

The Border 2012 program uses indicators to measure the environmental and public health conditions and Border 2012 progress in the U.S.-Mexico border region. In order to accomplish this goal, the Border 2012 program established the Border Indicators Task Force Background in December 2003. The BITF collaborates with all Border 2012 coordinating bodies to generate and use objective indicators that measure program progress and assess changes in the region’s environmental conditions. A Strategy for Indicator Development was first developed to guide the coordinating bodies in the identification, development and use of a set of environmental and performance indicators.

Based on this strategy, the BITF has issued two environmental indicator reports, State of the Border Region 2005 (English (PDF) | en Español (PDF) (24 pp, 1.8M), and State of the Border Region 2010 (PDF) (106 pp, 2.3MB) (Español version coming soon). The 2005 report is organized according to the six goals of the Border 2012 Program and tracks environmental conditions and trends for water, air, land, public health, joint readiness for environmental response, and enforcement and compliance in the U.S.-Mexico border region from Border 2012's inception in 2003 through the end of 2005.

The 2010 report builds on the flagship 2005 State of the Border Region report. It updates many of the indicators first reported in 2005, adds new indicators, and includes place-specific highlights that could become border-wide indicators in the future.As with the 2005 report, this report is structured around the six goals of Border 2012 with chapters on water, air, land, environmental readiness and response, and enforcement and compliance. Indicators that support Border 2012's additional goal, environmental health, cut across the other five goals and are included throughout the report in the most appropriate chapter.

The BITF is currently updating existing indicators and developing new ones. The results of these efforts will be posted to the individual indicator pages (above) as they become available. If you would like to get involved, please send an email to Steve Young (Young.Steve@epa.gov).

 

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