Border Flows : A Century of the Canadian-American Water Relationship / Daniel Macfarlane, Lynne Heasley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Macfarlane, Daniel, editor.

Heasley, Lynne, editor.

Series:

Canadian history and environment ; Number 6.

Canadian History and Environment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian-American Border Region.

Physical Description:

1 electronic resource (368 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[s.l.] : University of Calgary Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title Page

Series Page

Full Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Negotiating Abundanceand Scarcity: Introductionto a Fluid Border

PART ONE - Finding the Border: Political Ecologies of Water Governance and Tenure

OPENINGS: Political Ecologies on the Border

1: A Citizen's Legal Primer on the Boundary Waters Treaty, International Joint Commission,and Great Lakes Water Management

2: Treaties, Wars, and Salish SeaWatersheds: The Constructed Boundaries of Water Governance

3: Contesting the Northwest Passage: Four Far-North Narratives

PART TWO - Constructing the Border: Hydropolitics, Nationalism, and Megaprojects

OPENINGS: Transboundary Power Flows

3: Dam the Consequences: Hydropolitics, Nationalism, and the Niagara-St. Lawrence Projects

5: Quebec's Water Export Schemes: The Rise and Fall of a Resource Development Idea

6: Engineering a Treaty: The Negotiation of the Columbia River Treaty of 1961/1964

PART THREE - Challenging the Border:Ecological Agents of Change

OPENINGS: Border Ecologies in Boundary Waters

7: Lines That Don't Divide: Telling Tales about Animals, Chemicals,and People in the Salish Sea

8: Resiliency and Collapse: Lake Trout, Sea Lamprey, and Fisheries Management in Lake Superior

PART FOUR: Reflections in the Water

OPENINGS: The Lakes at Night

9: Finding Our Place

Afterword

Further Reading

Contributors

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781552388969

1552388964

9781552388976

1552388972

OCLC:

962422278