ABSTRACT
Since the conclusion of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA) between the United States and Canada in 1972,1 the Great Lakes regime has been the subject of many studies and reports on its governance structures and processes (Jackson and Sloan 2008, Krantzerg et al. 2007, Dempsey 2004, Nowland and Bakker 2010). In this chapter, the governance structures and processes for the Great Lakes is referred to as the “Great Lakes regime.” Th e notion of “regime” refers to the broader formal and informal structures and processes that describe the governance system for a region (see Scharm Stokke 1997).
