About Us
We are a transdisciplinary team that promotes structural solutions to the social and environmental problems of the Tijuana River and the surrounding communities. We work for ecosystem health, social well-being, and community integration, combining research, policy advocacy, and social awareness.
What do we do?
We conduct academic research, advocacy, and social awareness, aimed at improving the health of the Tijuana River basin and the population that inhabits it.
In 2019, a transdisciplinary team of academics, students, and activists formed the Tijuana River Socio-Environmental Project. Our goal is to address the river's socio-environmental problems from an ecosystemic and human rights perspective.
We are a collective of civil organizations such as Prevencasa AC and Proyecto Fronterizo de Educación Ambiental (PFEA) and academics from the California State University San Marcos (CSUSM), El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (El COLEF), the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), Los Angeles (UCLA), Berkeley, the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC) Pomona College and the University of California San Diego.
Mission
To understand and promote structural solutions to the socio-environmental problems surrounding the Tijuana River and the population that lives along its banks. To provide knowledge, support, empathy, and proposals to promote the river's ecosystem health, well-being, and integration of this population.
Values
What do we want to achieve?
The overall objective is to reduce pollution levels in the Tijuana River and promote the social and economic integration of the population living along its banks. Through specific objectives and concrete actions, we seek to improve the dignity, physical, and mental health of this population. Simultaneously, we aim to rehabilitate the Tijuana River and the coastal areas where it flows into the sea, fostering an increase in regional flora and fauna, the regeneration of adjacent aquifers, and the expansion of recreational public spaces in the city. In this way, we expect to have broader effects on the public and environmental health of Tijuana, the Tijuana River and Estuary ecosystem, and the coastal areas of San Diego and Tijuana. This will also impact the health and well-being of socially marginalized people in the city.
The collective
