Canadian Water Politics: Conflicts and Institutions - Softcover

Sproule-Jones, Mark; Johns, Carolyn; Heinmiller, B. Timothy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0773534695 ISBN 13: 9780773534698

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Water, an increasingly valuable multiple-use resource, is the source of continuing conflict in Canada and abroad. Its use and control presents significant challenges to governments, stakeholders, and citizens. "Canadian Water Politics" explores the nature of water use conflicts and the need for institutional designs and reforms to meet the governance challenges now and in the future. The editors present an overview of the properties of water, the nature of water uses, and the institutions that underpin water politics.Contributors highlight specific water policy concerns and conflicts in various parts of Canada and cover issues ranging from the Walkerton drinking water tragedy, water export policy, Great Lakes pollution, St Lawrence River shipping, Alberta irrigation and oil production, and fisheries management on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Canada - with its Great Lakes, three oceans, and border with the US - provides an ideal reference point for studying water use rivalries, conflicts, and governance. By exploring the controversies surrounding water management in Canada, "Canadian Water Politics" is an essential source for citizens, officials, academics and students, and contributes to our understanding of natural resource management and environmental policy at home and globally.

About this title

Review:

"An excellent study - with sound scholarship and impressively-clear writing - and a key contribution to evolving policy debates." --Robert Boardman, Dalhousie University

From the Author:

Mark Sproule-Jones, professor in the Department of Political Science and the Victor K. Copps Chair of Urban Studies, McMaster University, is the author of a number of books on environmental policy including The Restoration of the Great Lakes.

Carolyn J

About this edition

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0773534695
• ISBN 13: 9780773534698
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 408