▪ Abstract The US-Mexico border region illustrates the challenges of binational
environmental management in the context of a harsh physical environment, rapid growth …

The importance of political boundaries in the development, function and flow of tourism
cannot be overemphasized. In light of today's political transformations and processes of …

Human activities, such as dam construction, significantly altered the flow regimes in the
Mekong River, particularly after the completion of two large dams, namely Xiaowan and …

This paper examines cross-border partnerships in three international parks along the US-
Canada border based on principles of sustainable tourism. A model of intensity of cross …

The aim of this chapter is to review the nature of international parks, and their role With
respect to tourism, and to examine some of the challenges that face their designation and …

Sociologist Kathryn Kopinak here examines the maquiladora industry in Nogales, Sonora,
and explores various questions concerning how it is changing with NAFTA and other …

One of the most significant events in natural resource management in southern Africa has
been the integration of environmentalism into development policy. An outcome of the rise of …

This is a chapter about the advent and adoption by water scholars of a new term,“water
security.” How did this term appear, how is it defined, in which settings does it apply, what …

The world's transboundary environmental institutions typically are driven from the top,
function behind closed doors, disregard sustainability, and rely on technical fixes or …

The Greater Sonoran Ecoregion (GSE), spanning the US-Mexico border between Arizona
and Sonora, faces myriad biophysical and social challenges to maintaining long-term socio …