Water Without Borders?

Canada, the United States, and Shared Waters
Herausgeber: Norman, Emma S; Bakker, Karen; Cohen, Alice

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Since 1909, the waters along the Canada-US border have been governed in accordance with the Boundary Water Treaty, but much has changed in the last 100 years. This engaging volume brings together experts from both sides of the border to examine the changing relationship between Canada and the US with respect to shared waters, as well as the implications of these changes for geopolitics and the environment. Water without Borders? is a timely publication given the increased attention to shared water issues, and particularly because 2013 is the United Nations International Year of Water Cooperation. Water without Borders? is designed to help readers develop a balanced understanding of the most pressing shared water issues between Canada and the United States. The contributors explore possible frictions between governance institutions and contemporary management issues, illustrated through analyses of five specific transboundary water “flashpoints.” The volume offers both a historical survey of transboundary governance mechanisms and a forward-looking assessment of new models of governance that will allow us to manage water wisely in the future.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781442643932
• ISBN-10: 1442643935
• Artikelnr.: 37264304

Autorenporträt

Emma S. Norman is an assistant professor of Geography at Michigan Technological University. Alice Cohen is a professor in the Departments of Earth and Environmental Science and the Environmental and Sustainability Studies program at Acadia University. Karen Bakker is Canada Research Chair in Political Ecology, director of the Program on Water Governance, and a professor in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
PART ONE
ISSUES, APPROACHES, AND CHALLENGES
1. Indigenous Peoples and Water: Governing Across Borders - Merrell-Ann S.
Phare (lawyer and the founding Executive Director of the Centre for
Indigenous Environmental Resources, a national First Nation charitable
environmental organisation)
2. Rise of the Local? Delegation and Devolution in Transboundary Water
Governance - Emma S. Norman (Northwest Indian College, Geography) and Karen
Bakker (University of British Columbia, Geography)
3. The IJC and Transboundary Water Disputes: Past, Present, and Future -
Murray Clamen (McGill University, Bisource Engineering)
4. Continental Bulk Water Transfers: Chimera or Real Possibility? - Frédéric
Lasserre (Université du Québec, Geography)
5. Key Challenges in Canada-U.S. Water Governance - Ralph Pentland (Chair of
Canadian Water Issues Council)
PART TWO
FLASHPOINTS, CONFLICT, AND COOPERATION
6. The Columbia River Treaty - John Shurts (General Counsel of Northwest Power
and Conservation Council) and Richard Paisley (University of British
Columbia, Fisheries Centre)
7. Apportionment of the St. Mary and Milk Rivers - Nigel Bankes (University of
Calgary, Natural Resource Law) and Elizabeth Bourget (Enivronmental and
Water Resources Institute)
8. Devils Lake and Red River Basin - Norman Brandson (former Deputy Minister
of the department of the Environment, Conservation and Water Stewardship
with the government of Manitoba) and Robert Hearne (North Dakota State
University, Agribusiness and Applied Economics)
9. The Transboundary Flathead Basin - Harvey Locke (Vice President for
Conservation Strategy with The WILD Foundation and Strategic Adviser for
the Yellowstone to Yukon Initiative) and Matthew McKinney (Director of the
Centre for Natural Resources and Environmental Policy at the University of
Montana)
10. The Great Lakes: A Model of Transboundary Cooperation - Jamie Linton
(Queen's University, Geography) and Noah Hall (Wayne State University Law
School)
LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD
11. Conclusion - Alice Cohen (Clark University, Geography), Emma S. Norman
(Michigan Technological University, Social Sciences, Environmental and
Energy Program), and Karen Bakker (University of British Columbia,
Geography, Canada Research Chair in Political Ecology, director of the
Program on Water Governance)