Introduction : NAFTA and sustainable development / L. Kinvin Wroth and Hoi L. Kong -- Forgotten promises : neglected environmental provisions of the NAFTA and the North American agreement on environmental cooperation / Geoffrey Garver -- Should citizens expect procedural justice in nonadversarial processes? spotlighting the regression of the citizen submission process from NAAEC to CAFTA-DR / Giselle Davidian -- Choosing the right whistle : the development of the concept of environmental law under the citizen submissions process / Paolo Solano -- Pending proceedings in the new guidelines for submissions on enforcement matters : an improved regression? / Montserrat Rovalo -- Form over substance : procedural hurdles to the NAAEC citizen submission process / Leslie Welts -- Downward harmonization : Mexico's industrial livestock revolution / Pamela Vesilind -- Agricultural biotechnology and NAFTA : analyzing the impacts of U.S. and Canadian policies on Mexico's environment and agriculture / Laurie Beyranevand -- Assessing assessments of NAFTA's marine environment : the commission for environmental cooperation meets the world ocean assessment / Betsy Baker -- Sustainable development, NAFTA, and water / Katia Opalka -- Indigenous peoples in North America : bridging the trade and environment gap to ensure sustainability under NAFTA and NAAEC / Nicole Schabus -- Climate change, sustainable development, and NAFTA : regional policy harmonization as a basis for sustainable development / Freedom-Kai Phillips -- The principle of public participation in NAFTA Chapter 11 disputes / Avidan Kent -- Preventing environmental deterioration from international trade and investment : how China can learn from NAFTA's experience to strengthen domestic environmental governance and ensure sustainable development / Danni Liang and Jingjing Liu -- Pathways of influence in the NAFTA regime and their implications for domestic environmental policy-making in North America / Sébastien Jodoin -- The citizen submissions process in the North American agreement on environmental cooperation : theory and practice in deliberative democratic institutional design for transnational institutions / Hoi L. Kong -- Assessing ENGO influence in North American environmental politics : the double grid framework / Raul Pacheco-Vega.