This book examines cross-border environmental security within the context of human security and regional integration. The originality of the book is its comparative research design which includes cases from Europe, Asia and the Americas. The chapters originally published as a special issue in Globalizations.

Introduction: Environmental Security in Transnational Contexts: What Relevance for Regional Human Security Regimes? Harlan Koff and Carmen Maganda 1. Reconciling Competing Globalizations through Regionalisms? Environmental Security in the Framework of Expanding Security Norms and Narrowing Security Policies Harlan Koff 2. Water Security Debates in 'Safe' Water Security Frameworks: Moving Beyond the Limits of Scarcity Carmen Maganda 3. Scarcity and Power in US-Mexico Transboundary Water Governance: Has the Architecture Changed since NAFTA? Stephen P. Mumme 4. Many Faces of Security: Discursive Framing in Cross-border Natural Resource Governance in the Mekong River Commission Andrea K. Gerlak and Farhad Mukhtarov 5. Of River Linkage and Issue Linkage: Transboundary Conflict and Cooperation on the River Meuse Jeroen Frank Warner 6. Escaping the Border, Debordering the Nature: Protected Areas, Participatory Management, and Environmental Security in Northern Patagonia (i.e. Chile and Argentina) Bastien Sepúlveda and Sylvain Guyot