Towards Continental Environmental Policy?: North American Transnational Networks and Governance(SUNY series in Environmental Governance: Local-Regional-Global Interactions)

Examines the challenges of environmental governance in contemporary North America.

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations List of Tables Foreword Irasema Coronado Acknowledgments 1. Research on Transboundary Environmental Governance in North America: New Approaches to Existing and Emerging Challenges Peter Stoett and Owen Temby Part I: Bilateral and Trilateral Institutional Effectiveness 2. Navigating Overlap Management under NAFTA: The Role of the CEC Secretariat Sikina Jinnah and Abby Lindsay 3. The CEC, Digital Divides, and Participatory Challenges in the U.S.- Mexican Borderlands Suzanne Simon 4. The Absence of— and Need for— a Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment Agreement between the United States and Canada Olivia 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 and Trilateral Environmental Agreements since La Paz Stephen P. Mumme 6. Biodiversity without Borders? Acknowledging and Overcoming Obstacles in the Transboundary Governance of Endangered Species Andrea Olive 7. Institutional Features of U.S.- Canadian Transboundary Fisheries Governance: Organizations and Networks, Formal and Informal Andrew M. Song, Owen Temby, Gail Krantzberg, and Gordon M. Hickey 8. Continental Counter- Invasion: Invasive Species Management in North America Debora Vannijnatten and Peter Stoett 9. Transnational Networks and Transboundary Water Governance in the Colorado River Delta Andrea K. Gerlak 10. Environmentalists, Natu ral Resources, and the Fence on the Mexico Boundary Stephen P. Mumme and Christopher Brown Part III: Energy and Climate Change Mitigation 11. The Canadian Oil Sands Policy- Planning Network George A. Gonzalez 12. U.S.- Mexican Energy Relations: Clean- Energy Integration Falling Behind? Marcela López- Vallejo 13. Fluid Relations: Hydro Developments, the International Joint Commission, and U.S.- Canadian Border Waters Daniel Macfarlane 14. U.S.- Canadian Subnational Electricity Relations: Interests, Institutions, and Interactions Ian H. Rowlands 15. The Case for Continental: Examining the Potential for Climate Change Policy Integration in North America Mat Huff 16. Reflections and Projections on North American Environmental Governance Research Peter Stoett and Owen Temby Contributors Index

About the Author :
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.

Review :
"…the editors have done a great job of maintaining coherency in the work and finding high quality scholars. This book is a much-needed addition to the literature looking at the North American environmental context … Highly recommended." — CHOICE