Border Flows a century of the Canadian-American water relationship
"Declining access to fresh water is one of the twenty-first century's most pressing environmental and human rights challenges, yet the struggle for water is not a new cause. The 8,800-kilometer border dividing Canada and the United States contains more than 20 percent of the world's t...
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| Format: | eBook |
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Calgary, Alberta :
University of Calgary Press
2016.
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| Series: | Canadian history and environment series.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009745104606719 |
Table of Contents:
- A citizen's legal primer on the Boundary Waters Treaty, International Joint Commission, and Great Lakes water management / Noah D. Hall and Peter Starr Treaties, wars, and Salish Sea watersheds : the constructed boundaries of water governance / Emma S. Norman and Alice Cohen Contesting the Northwest Passage : four far-north narratives / Andrea Charron Dam the consequences : hydropolitics, nationalism, and the Niagara St. Lawrence projects / Daniel Macfarlane Quebec's water export schemes : the rise and fall of a resource development idea / Frédéric Lasserre Engineering a treaty : the negotiation of the Columbia River Treaty of 1961/1964 / Jeremy Mouat Lines that don't divide : telling tales about animals, chemicals, and people in the Salish Sea / Joseph E. Taylor III Resiliency and collapse : lake trout, sea lamprey, and fisheries management in Lake Superior / Nancy Langston Finding our place. Crossings / Jeremy Mouat ; Meditations on ice / Colin A.M. Duncan and Andrew Marcille ; Bordering on significance? / Daniel Macfarlane ; To market, to market / Joseph E. Taylor III ; Leading waters / Noah D. Hall ; On frames, perspectives, and vanishing points / Lynne Heasley ; Headwaters of hope / Dave Dempsey.
