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Americas

Brazil

Extensive site on Brazilian boundaries with nine other territories, including archive

Ecuador/Peru

Binational plan for border region development

US government summary of Ecuador/Peru agreements

Guyana/Venezuela

Odeen Ishmael's History of the Guyana/Venezuela Border Issue

USA

Border and Transcultural Studies Research Circle at the University of Wisconsin: an academic grouping mainly concerned with “borders” in the new (mainly US) sense of inter-cultural frontiers

The Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders at Yale University -- Centre for the advanced historical study of North American frontiers and borders, as well as the comparative study of the frontier experience throughout the world.

USA/Mexico

Border Counties Coalition - US/Meixco policy forum

Border & Latin American Information listing of New Mexico State University (NMSU) Library; NMSU also publishes Frontera NorteSur bulletin on US/Mexico borderlands

Border EcoWeb provides public access to environmental information for the US/Mexican border region

Border Environment Cooperation Commission, an intergovernmental agency

Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration (CONAHEC)Border PACT electronic network for higher education, with links to conference and other documents

Borderlands Environmental Archives, with extensive links on ecotourism and US/Mexico issues

Americas Program -- Incorporates the previous Border Information and Outreach Service (BIOS, formerly INCITRA), and its bulletin borderlines, alongside a new e-mail based updater called Crossborder Updater

Center for Inter-American and Border Studies (CIBS) -- Official site at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP).  See also the UTEP Borderlands Encyclopedia

Center for US-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, including Fellowships for Border Studies

Earlham College Border Studies Program

International Boundary and Water Commission

Living on the Border -- Website introducing personalised documentary of life on the US-Mexico border with many telling photographs.

Monterrey Centro de Calidad Ambiental (Environmental Quality Centre) listing (in Spanish) of resources on cross-border environmental issues

Southwest Center for Environmental Research & Policy (SCERP), a consortium of five US and four Mexican universities

Texas Center for Border Economic and Enterprise Development, a consortium of three Texan universities addressing socio-economic and educational issues in the border region

Texas Council for the Humanities Border Studies graphical exhibitions, learning resources and activities

Transboundary Resource Inventory Program (TRIP), a joint project to map and measure natural resources

Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy Directory of Research at the University of Arizona Relating to the US/Mexico Borderlands

US-Mexico Border Information Center on Air Pollution

United States/Canada

The Great Lakes Information Network

International Joint Commission (prevents and resolves disputes between the United States of America and Canada under the 1909 boundary Waters Treaty)