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TRACKS
The organizers
have considered that the V Encuentro is at a cross roads as
it approaches the closing of a cycle. For this reason it was
decided to favor a workshop-type format which includes intervention
from experts only at the beginning, over the conference or
panel format that prevailed in the past. The objective is
to achieve greater participation and depth in our shared experience
this time around, one that would help generate a certain degree
of consensus about our views and our stake regarding the main
border environmental issues. In order to accomplish this,
it was deemed necessary that the efforts of the participants,
instead of being dispersed, needed to be concentrated around
no more than 4 issues. The intention was to identify themes
with high priority at this time because they involve addressing
a broad variety of relevant issues, border wide.
We are aware of the importance of
sharing knowledge about a broader mosaic of experiences and
concerns, which has been the tradition in previous Encuentros.
That is why the process of deciding to exclude other themes
was a difficult one. However, we hope that the community of
border environmentalists will value and feel drawn both by
the experience offered by the new format as well as with these
four themes which will be discussed in separate and parallel
workshops or ‘Tracks”.
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