Possible Poster Topics

  1. Cross border water issues
    1. Explotation and Pollution
    2. Flooding
  2. Air Shed issues
    1. SE2 – Reaction on both sides of the border with distance decay
    2. Commuter traffic in the Fraser Valley
    3. Other sources of stress
  3. Border Crossing
    1. Border Security
    2. Changing Regulation
    3. Long Term impacts
    4. Impact of smuggling
  4. GeoPolitical Relationships
    1. Cross border political bodies
    2. Creation of single environmental entity
  5. Agriculture in the border region
    1. Comparison of Dairy Farms/Industry
    2. Comparison of Raspberry Farming
  6. Urban Environment
    1. Comparison of Growth and Stresses on Both Sides
    2. Historical evolution of each side of border
  7. Cross Border economics
    1. Illegal activity
    2. Cross border retail trade
    3. Migration of industry/economic activity
  8. Fisheries
    1. Impact of Canadian/US salmon treaties
    2. Similarities/Differences for First Peoples/Native Groups
  9. First Nation/Native American cross border
    1. Relationships, families, marriages
    2. Relationships with the Federal Governments on both sides of the border
  10. Migration
    11. /Immigration
    1. Sources and impacts of new in migrants on each side of the border
    2. Cross border migration

 

Other thoughts

Evidence of Cross border shopping

Cascadia -- organizations and impacts

Survey of local versus national identity

Transborder Environmentalism

Open Space

Urban Development

Planning vs Sprawl

Common Airshed

Cross Border Transportation Initiatives

 

This will also be posted on: www.wwu.edu\~patrick just click on the Borderlands button.