Owen Temby is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Peter Stoett is Dean of Social Science and Humanities at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. He has written several books, including Global Ecopolitics: Crisis, Governance, and Justice.

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesForewordIrasema CoronadoAcknowledgments1. Research on Transboundary Environmental Governance in North America: New Approaches to Existing and Emerging ChallengesPeter Stoett and Owen Temby Part I: Bilateral and Trilateral Institutional Effectiveness 2. Navigating Overlap Management under NAFTA: The Role of the CEC SecretariatSikina Jinnah and Abby Lindsay3. The CEC, Digital Divides, and Participatory Challenges in the U.S.- Mexican BorderlandsSuzanne Simon4. The Absence of— and Need for— a Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment Agreement between the United States and CanadaOlivia Collins and William V. Kennedy Part II: Biodiversity and Natural Resource Governance 5. The Evolution of Natural Resource Conservation Capacity on the U.S.- Mexican Border: Bilateral andTrilateral Environmental Agreements since La PazStephen P. Mumme6. Biodiversity without Borders? Acknowledging and Overcoming Obstacles in the TransboundaryGovernance of Endangered SpeciesAndrea Olive7. Institutional Features of U.S.- Canadian Transboundary Fisheries Governance: Organizations and Networks, Formal and InformalAndrew M. Song, Owen Temby, Gail Krantzberg, and Gordon M. Hickey8. Continental Counter- Invasion: Invasive Species Management in North AmericaDebora Vannijnatten and Peter Stoett9. Transnational Networks and Transboundary Water Governance in the Colorado River DeltaAndrea K. Gerlak10. Environmentalists, Natu ral Resources, and the Fence on the Mexico BoundaryStephen P. Mumme and Christopher Brown Part III: Energy and Climate Change Mitigation 11. The Canadian Oil Sands Policy- Planning NetworkGeorge A. Gonzalez12. U.S.- Mexican Energy Relations: Clean- Energy Integration Falling Behind?Marcela López- Vallejo13. Fluid Relations: Hydro Developments, the International Joint Commission, and U.S.- Canadian Border Waters Daniel Macfarlane14. U.S.- Canadian Subnational Electricity Relations: Interests, Institutions, and InteractionsIan H. Rowlands15. The Case for Continental: Examining the Potential for Climate Change Policy Integration in North AmericaMat Huff16. Reflections and Projections on North American Environmental Governance ResearchPeter Stoett and Owen TembyContributorsIndex

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