Political Development and Environmental Policy in Mexico
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Latin American Research Review
- Vol. 23 (1) , 7-34
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0023879100034695
Abstract
The fight against ecological degradation “has become a generalized policy demand of the whole society,” declared Marcelo Javelly Girard, Mexico's Secretary of Urban Development and Ecology. Addressing the Mexican Cabinet and hundreds of dignitaries attending Mexico's Primera Reunión Nacional de Ecología in June of 1984, Javelly Girard thus placed environmental concerns on President Miguel de la Madrid's official policy agenda. Appropriately convened in Mexico City (the world's fifth-most-polluted city by the Mexican government's own reckoning), the congress climaxed two years of effort by the de la Madrid administration to promote public environmental awareness as part of its national development program.Keywords
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