Transborder Environment

As North America continues to grow, consistent policies on the environment and, by extension, human health, are increasingly necessary to ensure that negative social impacts are minimized and key resources are used in a sustainable manner.

NACTS works to help build a cleaner and more sustainable North America in a number of ways, including hosting research consortiums and key events.

Key Initiatives

Southwest Consortium for Environmental Research and Policy
NACTS represents ASU in the Southwest Consortium for Environmental Research and Policy (SCERP), a federally funded consortium of U.S. and Mexican universities that focus research efforts on U.S.-Mexico border environmental issues. 

Greening North America's Trade Corridors - April 22-25, 2008
The Commission for Environmental Cooperation held its fourth annual Symposium on Trade and the Environment. NACTS co-sponsored the first day of the event, with a conference on Greening North America’s Trade Corridors. View the complete set of papers commissioned for the symposium.

North American Issues: Designing Institutions, Choosing Policies - March 14-15, 2008
The North American Center for Transborder Studies prepared papers and presented findings on a panel on border environnmental institutions at a conference organized by the Network on North American Studies in Canada (NNASC) and the University of British Columbia (UBC). The theme of the conference and panel afforded an examination of both national and border environmental institutions and polices at both borders thus a chance to discover, export, and import the best management practices from each nation and both borders. Each of the NACTS partner universities has been invited and at least one paper from both Canada and U.S and two papers from Mexico will be presented.

Binational Water and Renewable Energy Institute Workshop - February 21, 2008
As ASU's representative in the new Binational Water and Renewable Energy Institute, NACTS participated in a workshop for the institute, which was held at the Arizona Department of Water Resources. The institute was  created by Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano and Sonora Governor Eduardo Bours in
September 2007.