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Background
Debora L. VanNijnatten is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University, Program Coordinator for Laurier's North American Studies Program and she has been the Director of the Master's of International Public Policy at the Balsillie School.
Her research focuses on cross-border regions as policy actors in North America as well as various aspects of Canadian-American-Mexican environmental policy including air quality policy, climate change policy and subnational policy innovations. In particular, she is interested in transgovernmental interactions aimed at environmental policy capacity-building across borders.
She is co-editor of Environmental Policy (Oxford 2002, 2009) and is co-author of a manuscript entitled Environmental Policy in North America: Capacity, Approaches and Transboundary Issue Management in Canada, Mexico and the United States (forthcoming). She has been a Visiting Fulbright Chair at Duke University and Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources. She was also Academic Advisor for the "Emergence of Cross-Border Regions" research project arried out by the Policy Research Initiative, Government of Canada (2004-2006). She is a founding member of the North American Network for Climate Policy Cooperation, and is overseeing (with Canadian and Mexican colleagues) a series of research papers that will provide policy analysis and advice on transboundary climate policy cooperation.
Select Publications
- Debora L. VanNijnatten (2011) "From the International Joint Commission to Copenhagen: Bilateral Environmental Management in a North American Regional Context," in Greg Anderson and Chris Sands, eds., Forgotten Partnership: The Canada-United States Relationship Twenty-Five YEars Later. London: Ashgate.
- Debora L. VanNijnatten and Neil Craik (2011) "Energy and Environment: Prospects for New Forms of Continental Governance," in Jeffrey Ayres and Laura MacDonald, eds., North America in Question: Regional Integration in an Era of Political Economic Turbulence. Toronto: UTP Press.
- Debora L. VanNijnatten (2011) "North American Environmental Regionalism: Multi-level, Bottom-heavy and Policy-led," in Lorraine Elliot and Shaun Breslin, eds., Comparative Environmental Regionalism. Routledge/GARNET Series.
- Douglas Macdonald and Debora L. VanNijnatten (2010) "Climate Change Policy and the North American Influence," in Monica Gattinger and Geoffrey Hale, eds., Borders and Bridges in North America. Don Mills: Oxford University Press.
- Debora L. VanNijnatten and Robert Boardman, eds. (2009) Canadian Environmental Politics and Policy: Prospects for Leadership and Innovation. 3rd edition, Oxford University Press.
Academic/Professional Awards
- Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty Merit Award 2009
