Water Policy In Canada

Author : Steven Renzetti,Diane P. Dupont
Publisher : Springer
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : 48,9 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 : Karen Bakker
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : 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 : Peter H. Pearse,Françoise Bertrand,James W. MacLaren,Canada. Inquiry on Federal Water Policy
Publisher : The Inquiry
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : Deborah McGregor,Jean-Paul Restoule,Rochelle Johnston
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,6 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 : Jamie Linton
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : Chris Wood,Ralph Pentland
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781926812779

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Down the Drain by Chris Wood,Ralph Pentland Pdf

Describes the laws, research and regulatory issues surrounding water conservation efforts, reviews the history of water management in Canada, Europe and the United States and offers a strategy to protect our most important natural resource.

Author : Steven Alexander Kennett
Publisher : IIGR, Queen's University
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 54,8 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Diquat
ISBN : 0660395487

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Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality by Anonim Pdf

Author : Amanda M. Klasing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Drinking water
ISBN : 1623133637

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Make it Safe by Amanda M. Klasing Pdf

"The report, 'Make It Safe: Canada's Obligation to End the First Nations Water Crisis,' documents the impacts of serious and prolonged drinking water and sanitation problems for thousands of indigenous people--known as "First Nations"--living on reserves. It assesses why there are problems with safe water and sanitation on reserves, including a lack of binding water quality regulations, erratic and insufficient funding, faulty or sub-standard infrastructure, and degraded source waters. The federal government's own audits over two decades show a pattern of overpromising and underperforming on water and sanitation for reserves"--Publisher's description.

Author : Harriet Rueggeberg,Andrew R. Thompson,Canada. Inquiry on Federal Water Policy,Westwater Research Centre
Publisher : Westwater Research Centre, University of British Columbia
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Water
ISBN : 0920146260

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Water Law and Policy Issues in Canada by Harriet Rueggeberg,Andrew R. Thompson,Canada. Inquiry on Federal Water Policy,Westwater Research Centre Pdf

Papers prepared as background to a workshop held in Toronto. Includes sections on northern water issues and Indian rights to water on reserve lands.

Author : Barlow, Maude
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781770909472

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Boiling Point by Barlow, Maude Pdf

Passionate and cogent, this could be the most important book of the year for Canadians We are complacent. We bask in the idea that Canada holds 20% of the worldÍs fresh water „ water crises face other countries, but not ours. We could not be more wrong. In Boiling Point, bestselling author and activist Maude Barlow lays bare the issues facing CanadaÍs water reserves, including long-outdated water laws, unmapped and unprotected groundwater reserves, agricultural pollution, industrial-waste dumping, boil-water advisories, and the effects of deforestation and climate change. This will be the defining issue of the coming decade, and most of us have no idea that it is on our very own doorstep. Barlow is one of the worldÍs foremost water activists and she has been on the front lines of the worldÍs water crises for the past 20 years. She has seen first-hand the scale of the water problems facing much of the world, but also many of the solutions that are being applied. In Boiling Point, she brings this wealth of experience and expertise home to craft a compelling blueprint for CanadaÍs water security.

Author : Nicole J. Wilson,Joanne Nelson,Sameer H. Shah,Leila M. Harris
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 51,9 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 : Foster, Harold,Sewell, W R Derrick
Publisher : Lorimer
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Nature
ISBN : PSU:000006899981

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