Environmental Governance on the Mexico-U.S. Border

This book addresses the issue of governing the environment on the Mexico-United States Border. It examines the criterion of co-responsibility, the performance of governance institutions, and seek for a design to attain good governance. Following an introduction, Chapter 2 presents theoretic elaborations around environmental governance. Chapter 3 offers an overview of the Border. Chapter 4 focuses on the evolution of environmental institutions; it examines main aspects of bureaucratic arrangements and regulatory moves that Mexico and United States governments have implemented to oversee the environment, overall after the signing of NAFTA. Chapter 5 assesses environmental governance and examines two subjects of great concern: hazardous waste and atmospheric air pollution. Chapter 6 examines co-responsibility in environmental governance. Chapter 7 concludes with the relevant findings and describes topics for future work. A bibliography and an alphabetical index complement the book.