ABSTRACT
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the responses in the days that followed, highlighted many of the difficulties in maintaining the efficient circulation of peoples, goods, services, and information in the United States-Mexico borderlands while still providing for adequate homeland security in the United States. Hazards pay little attention to political boundaries, so disaster management increasingly has involved coordination across jurisdictional boundaries and cooperation among local, state, and federal agencies. While progress has been made in cross-jurisdictional disaster management within the borders of the United States, much less attention has been given to coordination across the nation’s international boundaries. However, 9/11 and its aftermath indicated the critical need to increase the level of attention to transborder disaster planning.
