Water Policy And Governance In Canada

Author : Steven Renzetti,Diane P. Dupont
Publisher : Springer
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 51,5 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 : 41,7 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 : Deborah McGregor,Jean-Paul Restoule,Rochelle Johnston
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : Karen Bakker
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : Nicole J. Wilson,Joanne Nelson,Sameer H. Shah,Leila M. Harris
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,7 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 : Mark Sproule-Jones,Carolyn Johns,B. Timothy Heinmiller
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773575950

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Canadian Water Politics by Mark Sproule-Jones,Carolyn Johns,B. Timothy Heinmiller Pdf

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.

Author : Linda Nowlan,Karen Bakker,University of British Columbia. Program on Water Governance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08
Category : Water
ISBN : 0888657005

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Practising Shared Water Governance by Linda Nowlan,Karen Bakker,University of British Columbia. Program on Water Governance Pdf

Author : Jamie Linton
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781553394372

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Water as a Social Opportunity by Jamie Linton Pdf

Often when water is thought about, the focus is on problems, challenges, and crises. In November 2012, a group of researchers came together at Queen’s University with the idea that it is more illuminating and constructive to think about water as an opportunity. Water as a Social Opportunity conveys the idea that the ways in which society responds to water-related challenges has the potential to yield a variety of positive outcomes not just for water, or the economy, but for society more broadly. Contributors consider water issues across Canada from this original perspective, and suggest this concept as a basis for developing a long-overdue national water strategy in Canada.

Author : Peter H. Pearse,Françoise Bertrand,James W. MacLaren,Canada. Inquiry on Federal Water Policy
Publisher : The Inquiry
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Natural resources
ISBN : UOM:39015011144824

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Currents of Change by Peter H. Pearse,Françoise Bertrand,James W. MacLaren,Canada. Inquiry on Federal Water Policy Pdf

The adequacy of federal water policy and the capacity of involvedinstitutions to respond to new circumstances is assessed. Thenature of emerging issues, the state of the resource, futurerequirements for water, interjurisdictional dimensions, scientific and research expertise are considered.[$

Author : Rafael Ziegler,David Groenfeldt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781315469676

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Global Water Ethics by Rafael Ziegler,David Groenfeldt Pdf

Scholarly interest in water ethics is increasing, motivated by the urgency of climate change, water scarcity, privatization and conflicts over water resources. Water ethics can provide both conceptual perspectives and practical methodologies for identifying outcomes which are environmentally sustainable and socially just. This book assesses the implications of ongoing research in framing a new discipline of water ethics in practice. Contributions consider the difficult ethical and epistemological questions of water ethics in a global context, as well as offering local, empirical perspectives. Case study chapters focus on a range of countries including Canada, China, Germany, India, South Africa and the USA. The respective insights are brought together in the final section concerning the practical project of a universal water ethics charter, alongside theoretical questions about the legitimacy of a global water ethics. Overall the book provides a stimulating examination of water ethics in theory and practice, relevant to academics and professionals in the fields of water resource management and governance, environmental ethics, geography, law and political science.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264119284

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OECD Studies on Water Water Governance in OECD Countries A Multi-level Approach by OECD Pdf

This report addresses multilevel governance challenges in water policy implementation and identifies good practices for coordinating water policy across ministries, between levels of government, and across local actors at subnational level.

Author : Dan Shrubsole,Dan Walters,Barbara Veale,Bruce Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Peter Gossage,Canada. Inquiry on Federal Water Policy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Water
ISBN : OCLC:16178511

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Water in Canadian History by Peter Gossage,Canada. Inquiry on Federal Water Policy Pdf

Author : Emma S. Norman,Alice Cohen,Karen Bakker
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442698208

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Water without Borders? by Emma S. Norman,Alice Cohen,Karen Bakker Pdf

Since 1909, the waters along the Canada-US border have been governed in accordance with the Boundary Water Treaty, but much has changed in the last 100 years. This engaging volume brings together experts from both sides of the border to examine the changing relationship between Canada and the US with respect to shared waters, as well as the implications of these changes for geopolitics and the environment. Water without Borders? is a timely publication given the increased attention to shared water issues, and particularly because 2013 is the United Nations International Year of Water Cooperation. Water without Borders? is designed to help readers develop a balanced understanding of the most pressing shared water issues between Canada and the United States. The contributors explore possible frictions between governance institutions and contemporary management issues, illustrated through analyses of five specific transboundary water “flashpoints.” The volume offers both a historical survey of transboundary governance mechanisms and a forward-looking assessment of new models of governance that will allow us to manage water wisely in the future.

Author : Steven Alexander Kennett
Publisher : IIGR, Queen's University
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 48,5 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