Water without borders? : Canada, the United States, and shared waters / edited by Emma S. Norman, Alice Cohen, and Karen Bakker.

ISBN:

9781442698192

Title:

Author:

Norman, Emma S., editor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 275 pages) : illustrations, maps

Contents:

PART ONE Issues, Approaches, and Challenges -- Indigenous Peoples and Water: Governing Across Borders / Merrell-Ann S. Phare -- Rise of the Local? Delegation and Devolution in Transboundary Water Governance / Emma S. Norman and Karen Bakker -- The IJC and Transboundary Water Disputes: Past, Present, and Future / Murray Clamen -- Continental Bulk Water Transfers: Chimera or Real Possibility? / Frédéric Lasserre -- Key Challenges in Canada-U.S. Water Governance / Ralph Pentland -- PART TWO Flashpoints, Conflict, and Cooperation -- The Columbia River Treaty / John Shurts and Richard Paisley -- Apportionment of the St. Mary and Milk Rivers / Nigel Bankes and Elizabeth Bourget -- Devils Lake and Red River Basin / Norman Brandson and Robert Hearne -- The Flathead River Basin / Harvey Locke and Matthew McKinney -- The Great Lakes: A Model of Transboundary Cooperation / Jamie Linton and Noah Hall -- Looking Back, Looking Forward -- Conclusion / Alice Cohen, Emma S. Norman, and Karen Bakker.

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Subject Term:

Water rights -- Canada.

Water rights -- United States.

Water -- Government policy -- Canada.

Water -- Government policy -- United States.

Water quality management -- Canada.

Water quality management -- United States.

Water-supply -- International cooperation.

Added Author:

Norman, Emma S.,

Cohen, Alice (Geographer),

Bakker, Karen J.,

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2013

Publication Information:

Toronto :

University of Toronto Press,

[2013]

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Summary

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.

Author Notes

Norman Emma S. :

Emma S. Norman is an assistant professor of Geography at Michigan Technological University.
Cohen Alice :

Alice Cohen is a professor in the Departments of Earth and Environmental Science and the Environmental and Sustainability Studies program at Acadia University.
Bakker Karen :

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.

Reviews (1)

Choice Review

This balanced collection of essays commemorates 100 years of formal cooperation between Canada and the US in the management of shared waterways. The Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909 set up the International Joint Commission (IJC), which has been used effectively as a cross-border dispute settlement mechanism in 120 cases. The essays, written by lawyers, academics, engineers, and other professionals with expertise in public policy, hydrology, and environmental issues, cover the complicated issues associated with reconciling natural borders with political ones. Many delve deeply into particular cross-border basins and waterways like the Great Lakes, the Columbia River, and the Red River. While the treaty and the IJC have worked well for so long, disputes are increasingly being dealt with outside their ambit, and new issues and actors increasingly render the IJC inadequate to the task. Students, researchers, and other professionals with an interest in Canada-US relations, water management, environmental issues, aboriginal concerns, and climate change will find these essays relevant. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, and research collections. T. M. Bateman St. Thomas University