Abstract

HARO VELARDE, Noemi  and  SALAZAR ADAMS, Alejandro. Water, Pollution, and Management in the Northern Region of Mexico: The Case of the Sonora River.Translated byLuis Cejudo-Espinosa. Frontera norte [online]. 2021, vol.33, e2136.  Epub Oct 25, 2021. ISSN 2594-0260.  https://doi.org/10.33679/rfn.v1i1.2136.

This paper describes the formulation of the decision agenda of “Río Sonora” Trust (FRS)’s Technical Committee (TC), established in 2014 to compensate for the damage caused by Buenavista del Cobre Company’s copper leach spill in the Sonora River Basin. The Multiple Streams Approach (MSA) (Kingdon, 2014) was used to analyze the participation and criteria for technical feasibility and the anticipation of future limitations of the alternatives discussed by the FRS’ Technical Committee. The analysis showed that the approved alternatives were formulated and implemented by hidden participants and characterized by their high visibility, low compliance with the technical feasibility criteria, and long-term costs aversion. The results contribute to the understanding of the MSA virtues for the analysis of the remediation of environmental disasters agenda.

Keywords : decision agenda; agenda formation; mining; environmental disaster-trust; Sonora River-Mexico.

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