Water Management In Canada

Author : Karen Bakker
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780774840095

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Eau Canada by Karen Bakker Pdf

As the sustainability of our natural resources is increasingly questioned, Canadians remain stubbornly convinced of the unassailability of our water. Mounting evidence suggests, however, that Canadian water is under threat. Eau Canada assembles the country's top water experts to discuss our most pressing water issues. Perspectives from a broad range of thinkers � geographers, environmental lawyers, former government officials, aquatic and political scientists, and economists � reflect the diversity of concerns in water management. Arguing that weak governance is at the heart of Canada's water problems, this timely book identifies our key failings, explores debates over jurisdiction, transboundary waters, exports, and privatization, and maps out solutions for protecting our most important resource.

Author : Steven Renzetti,Diane P. Dupont
Publisher : Springer
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319428062

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Water Policy and Governance in Canada by Steven Renzetti,Diane P. Dupont Pdf

This book provides an insightful and critical assessment of the state of Canadian water governance and policy. It adopts a multidisciplinary variety of perspectives and considers local, basin, provincial and national scales. Canada’s leading authorities from the social sciences, life and natural sciences address pressing water issues in a non-technical language, making them accessible to a wide audience. Even though Canada is seen as a water-rich country, with 7% of the world’s reliable flow of freshwater and many of the world’s largest rivers, the country nevertheless faces a number of significant water-related challenges, stemming in part from supply-demand imbalances but also a range of water quality issues. Against the backdrop of a water policy landscape that has changed significantly in recent years, this book therefore seeks to examine water-related issues that are not only important for the future of Canadian water management but also provide insights into transboundary management, non-market valuation of water, decentralized governance methods, the growing importance of the role of First Nations peoples, and other topics in water management that are vital to many jurisdictions globally. The book also presents forward-looking approaches such as resilience theory and geomatics to shed light on emerging water issues. Researchers, students and those directly involved in the management of Canadian waters will find this book a valuable source of insight. In addition, this book will appeal to policy analysts, people concerned about Canadian water resources specifically as well as global water issues.

Author : Mohammed H. Dore
Publisher : Springer
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319158839

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Water Policy in Canada by Mohammed H. Dore Pdf

This book deals with the water policy and management in Canada. It discusses various problems and risks in the fresh and drinking water supply in the second largest country in the world. Mohammed Dore argues that water is underpriced and used wastefully in Canada. In selected case studies, he illustrates the major threats from human activity to Canadian freshwaters and drinking water resources, including manufacturing, mining, oil sands production, animal farming and agricultural use. Selected case studies include reviews of even dramatic incidences, e.g. the Walkerton tragedy of 2000, when 7 people were killed and 200 went onto permanent dialysis treatment because of water contamination with harmful pathogens. The book warns that wastewater treatment standards are often not sufficient, so that many drinking water resources are in peril of wastewater contamination. As most of the water resources are provincial responsibility, the book discusses the water management policies in the different provinces separately. Through a detailed discussion and statistical analyses, it can define water policy and management lessons that emerge from the investigated case studies. It ends by contrasting water policy and practice in Canada with the practice in some European countries.

Author : Dan Shrubsole,Dan Walters,Bruce Mitchell,Barbara Veale
Publisher : Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Water resources development
ISBN : 1138586919

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Integrated Water Management in Canada by Dan Shrubsole,Dan Walters,Bruce Mitchell,Barbara Veale Pdf

This volume provides readers with an opportunity to learn from front line water managers of watershed-based agencies across Canada about integrated water management (or integrated water resource management). In common with practice in much of the world, the responsibility for implementing integrated watershed management in Canada is fragmented. Each province and territory in Canada has developed unique approaches or governance models to guide decision making in that regard. Thus, this edited volume enables readers from around the world to gain insight on the best practices in Canada for achieving success and addressing barriers to implement IWM. Although there remains non consensus about how to "best" approach river basin management, some of the main observations include: There is a need to balance a focus on "the big picture," with scoping the scale and scope of planning activities in order that feasible and effective solutions can be implemented Three types of integration are popular among the agencies included in the book: (i) among environment, economy and society, (ii) interactions between people and the environment and (iii) integration (or coordination) of administrative activities. Much more attention is required to achieving effective engagement from Indigenous communities The chapters were originally published in a special issue of the International Journal of Water Resources Development.

Author : Steven Alexander Kennett
Publisher : IIGR, Queen's University
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Federal government
ISBN : 9780889115965

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The Design of Federalism and Water Resource Management in Canada by Steven Alexander Kennett Pdf

Author : Dan Shrubsole,Dan Walters,Barbara Veale,Bruce Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780429996146

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Integrated Water Management in Canada by Dan Shrubsole,Dan Walters,Barbara Veale,Bruce Mitchell Pdf

This volume provides readers with an opportunity to learn from front line water managers of watershed-based agencies across Canada about integrated water management (or integrated water resource management). In common with practice in much of the world, the responsibility for implementing integrated watershed management in Canada is fragmented. Each province and territory in Canada has developed unique approaches or governance models to guide decision making in that regard. Thus, this edited volume enables readers from around the world to gain insight on the best practices in Canada for achieving success and addressing barriers to implement IWM. Although there remains non consensus about how to "best" approach river basin management, some of the main observations include: There is a need to balance a focus on "the big picture", with scoping the scale and scope of planning activities in order that feasible and effective solutions can be implemented Three types of integration are popular among the agencies included in the book: (i) among environment, economy and society, (ii) interactions between people and the environment and (iii) integration (or coordination) of administrative activities. Much more attention is required to achieving effective engagement from Indigenous communities The chapters were originally published in a special issue of the International Journal of Water Resources Development.

Author : J. S. Cram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Nature
ISBN : UCAL:B4515076

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Water; Canadian Needs and Resources by J. S. Cram Pdf

Author : Canadian Water Resources Association,Grand River Conservation Authority
Publisher : Department of Geography, University of Waterloo
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105032778875

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River Basin Management by Canadian Water Resources Association,Grand River Conservation Authority Pdf

Proceedings of "River Basin Management: Canadian Experiences", a national symposium held in Kitchener, Ontario, October 4-7, 1981. Focuses on strategic issues associated with river basin management in Canada. Covers management problems, alternative solutions, implementing selected plans, and monitoring implemented activities.

Author : Nicole J. Wilson,Joanne Nelson,Sameer H. Shah,Leila M. Harris
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783039215607

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Water Governance: Retheorizing Politics by Nicole J. Wilson,Joanne Nelson,Sameer H. Shah,Leila M. Harris Pdf

This republished Special Issue highlights recent and emergent concepts and approaches to water governance that re-centers the political in relation to water-related decision making, use, and management. To do so at once is to focus on diverse ontologies, meanings and values of water, and related contestations regarding its use, or its importance for livelihoods, identity, or place-making. Building on insights from science and technology studies, feminist, and postcolonial approaches, we engage broadly with the ways that water-related decision making is often depoliticized and evacuated of political content or meaning—and to what effect. Key themes that emerged from the contributions include the politics of water infrastructure and insecurity; participatory politics and multi-scalar governance dynamics; politics related to emergent technologies of water (bottled or packaged water, and water desalination); and Indigenous water governance.

Author : Tony Maas,POLIS Project on Ecological Governance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Nature
ISBN : CORNELL:31924097804938

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What the Experts Think by Tony Maas,POLIS Project on Ecological Governance Pdf

The directory is intended of experts in the fi eld of water as a resource for those engaged management recommend demand- the country - in the private in water policy development and side management (DSM) as a sector, academia, civil society the practice of water DSM. [...] The 'supply-side' approach has been the basic All interviewees were given the opportunity to review paradigm of water management throughout the the content and context of their input as it appears in industrialized world, including in water-scarce areas the text. [...] According to Tate (1999: Unlimited access to high quality manipulating the country's 1), "water management in Canada water, whenever and in whatever massive supplies of fresh has focused on manipulating the quantities desired, has become water to meet the needs of country's massive supplies of fresh an expectation in Canadian water to meet the needs of communities. [...] Indeed, with 54 inter- to the current large, sophisticated urban water utilities basin diversions and over 150 large dams, Canadians have always had to address the question of how rank among the world's most advanced practitioners to balance water supply (taking into account water of the 'science of water development' (Shrubsole and availability and the capacity of the infrastructure Tate, 1994: 2 [...] Round Table on the Environment and the Economy Under the current management approach, the extent estimates that the cost of unmet infrastructure to which humanity manipulates and undermines the requirements just to maintain existing capital stock integrity of freshwater ecosystems will only increase and service is between $38 and $49 billion.

Author : Oliver M. Brandes,POLIS Project on Ecological Governance
Publisher : Polis Project
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : NWU:35556037251253

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At a Watershed by Oliver M. Brandes,POLIS Project on Ecological Governance Pdf

Author : Foster, Harold,Sewell, W R Derrick
Publisher : Lorimer
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000006899981

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Water by Foster, Harold,Sewell, W R Derrick Pdf

Like energy crisis, the water crisis has been in the making for decades, but a prevailing myth of superabundance about water has made it difficult to sustain public interest. However, careful analysis of available data by the authors confirm that existing water sources may not be able to cope with current and projected needs. Sewell and Foster point out that growing demand must be met not by "extensive" water management but by an "intensive" approach that emphasizes recycling, rationing, improved technology and other measures to achieve more efficient use of supplies on which we now draw.

Author : Deborah McGregor,Jean-Paul Restoule,Rochelle Johnston
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773380858

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Indigenous Research by Deborah McGregor,Jean-Paul Restoule,Rochelle Johnston Pdf

Indigenous research is an important and burgeoning field of study. With the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s call for the Indigenization of higher education and growing interest within academic institutions, scholars are exploring research methodologies that are centred in or emerge from Indigenous worldviews, epistemologies, and ontology. This new edited collection moves beyond asking what Indigenous research is and examines how Indigenous approaches to research are carried out in practice. Contributors share their personal experiences of conducting Indigenous research within the academy in collaboration with their communities and with guidance from Elders and other traditional knowledge keepers. Their stories are linked to current discussions and debates, and their unique journeys reflect the diversity of Indigenous languages, knowledges, and approaches to inquiry. Indigenous Research: Theories, Practices, and Relationships is essential reading for students in Indigenous studies programs, as well as for those studying research methodology in education, health sociology, anthropology, and history. It offers vital and timely guidance on the use of Indigenous research methods as a movement toward reconciliation.

Author : Chris Wood,Ralph Pentland
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781926812779

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Down the Drain by Chris Wood,Ralph Pentland Pdf

An incisive critique of Canada's drinking water gatekeepers. Canada is celebrated for its abundance of fresh water, and few Canadians question the safety of the water that comes from our taps. But is this trust justified? One study estimates that contamination of drinking water causes 90,000 cases of illness and ninety deaths every year. In this authoritative review of decades of legislation, research, and independent regulatory critiques, accompanied by riveting stories of the many failures of our water supply, award-winning journalist Chris Wood and Canadian water policy expert Ralph Pentland expose how governments at every level have failed to protect our drinking water. The authors review the history of water management in Canada and approaches to the problem in Europe and the United States, then analyze our own approach in recent times, and finally propose a strategy to protect our water--including a new charter that will hold our government to account.

Author : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Environment Directorate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Water quality management
ISBN : UOM:39015026099443

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Water Management in Canada by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Environment Directorate Pdf