transboundary

Examples

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• Beginning with the 2001 budget, the federal government began reinvesting in environmental protection—especially in the areas of air quality, climate change, and water quality, all of which have transboundary aspects—and the most recent Martin budget and policy pronouncements indicate a continuation of this support.

  Academic text (2004)

• Due to its transboundary migratory ecosystem, there is an initiative to integrate GNP into a transboundary protected area system with Boma National Park in South Sudan.

  Academic text (2018)

• The problems associated with hazardous materials should be understood against the backdrop of a host of transboundary environmental issues.

  Academic text (2001)

• Both public and official concern over transboundary hazardous materials issues grew, propelled by the promise of increased action.

  Academic text (2001)

• In fact, the Trail case was the first disputed and resolved case of transboundary acidic deposition.

  Academic text (1998)

• The European Community has addressed transboundary environmental pollution, while their COMECON neighbors have only recently begun to instigate actions to investigate such pollution.

  Academic text (1990)

• Growing pressure from environmental and community-based nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) has helped propel transboundary hazardous materials issues onto the agendas of the two countries' governments and numerous international institutions.

  Academic text (2001)

• Finally, a legal and institutional framework should be established to cope with transboundary environmental issues like acid rain, pollution of rivers (e.g., the Mekong and Amur), and closed seas (e.g., the Sea of Japan and the South China Sea).

  Academic text (1995)

• Thus, it might be argued that Canada-U.S. environmental relations, operationally, are growing more intense as transgovernmental connections grow, as scientific and technical networks coalesce at the continental and regional levels, bringing a greater degree of understanding and consensus to transboundary environmental debates across North America, and as subnational and cross-border regional interactions increase.

  Academic text (2004)

• The United States and Canada collaborate on solutions for transboundary environmental challenges affecting both nations.

Synonyms

T

transnational

vstransboundary

15 6.6

Involving more than one country

focuses more on crossing specific boundaries rather than broad international operations

I

interregional

vstransboundary

1 4.8

Happening between two or more areas

focuses on crossing country or region boundaries rather than only region-level links

T

transfrontier

vstransboundary

7.4

Relating to or crossing borders between countries

is broader and applies to things across boundaries not just border areas

T

transborder

vstransboundary

6.3

It describes projects or activities that cross a national border

is more general applying to any cross country or cross region cases

I

intercountry

vstransboundary

5.0

Happening between two or more countries

highlights crossing or extending across boundaries not just being between countries

Surface Forms

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