The International Joint Commission : the promise and limits of an ambitious model / Stephen Brooks -- Transboundary water management and governance in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Basin / Daniel Mcfarlane and Noah Hall -- Multi-jurisdictional governance of the shared Great Lakes fishery : can a non-binding agreement work? / Marc Gaden and Charles Krueger -- Transboundary environmental governance and water pollution in the Great Lakes Region : recent progress and future challenges / Carolyn Johns -- Transboundary water governance in the Prairie Region : development institutions in a conservation age / B. Timothy Heinmiller -- Transboundary environmental governance in the Pacific West / Donald K. Alpers -- Canada/U.S. transboundary energy governance / Stephen Bird and Martin D. Heintzelman -- Canada-United States relations and a low-carbon economy for North America? / Debora L. VanNijinatten and Marcela Lopez-Vallejo -- Lessons learned and new applications / Andrea Olive