What are the most important transnational governance arrangements for environmental policy in North America? Has their proliferation facilitated a transition towards integrated continental environmental policy, and if so, to what degree is this integration irreversible? These governance arrangements are diverse and evolving, consisting of binational and trinational organizations created decades ago by treaties and groups of stakeholders-with varying degrees of formalization-who work together to address issues that no single country can alone. Together they provide leadership in numerous areas of environmental concern, including invasive species, energy efficiency, water, and terrestrial and aquatic wildlife. This book explores these arrangements, examining features such as stakeholder inclusion, organizational activities and functions, and issue comprehensiveness. Overall, the contributors report an underdeveloped policy architecture consisting of fragmented regional transnational networks of stakeholders and underfunded binational and trinational organizations. They also show evidence of substantial policy entrepreneurship and a vibrant informal underbelly to North American environmental governance, which will be vital in the challenging days ahead.

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