Border Flows : a century of the Canadian-American water relationship / edited by Lynne Heasley, Daniel Macfarlane.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Macfarlane, Daniel, 1979- editor.

Heasley, Lynne, editor.

Series:

Canadian history and environment series.

Canadian history and environment series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canada--Foreign relations--United States.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 pages).

Place of Publication:

Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press, 2016.

Summary:

"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 total freshwater resources, and Border Flows traces the century-long effort by Canada and the United States to manage and care for their ecologically and economically shared rivers and lakes. Ranging across the continent, from the Great Lakes to the Northwest Passage to the Salish Sea, the histories in Border Flows offer critical insights into the historical struggle to care for these vital waters. From multiple perspectives, the book reveals alternative paradigms in water history, law, and policy at scales from the local to the transnational. Students, concerned citizens, and policymakers alike will benefit from the lessons to be found along this critical international border."-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (University of Calgary Press, viewed May 13, 2023).