Water without Borders?

Author： Emma S. Norman   Alice Cohen   Karen Bakker  

Publisher： University of Toronto Press‎

Publication year： 2013

E-ISBN: 9781442698192

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Language： ENG

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Water Without Borders offers important lessons for managing water across one of the longest political borders in the world:  Canada - U.S. frontier.  This book shows how the increased participation by citizen activists and watershed groups is improving water governance.. Water without Borders is a must read for anyone interested in protecting shared waterways and fortifying strong communities for the 21st Century.

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Cover

Contents

List of Tables

List of Figures

List of Textboxes

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction

Part One: Issues, Approaches, and Challenges

2 Indigenous Peoples and Water: Governing across Borders

3 Rise of the Local? Delegation and Devolution in Transboundary Water Governance

4 The IJC and Transboundary Water Disputes: Past, Present, and Future

5 Continental Bulk-Water Transfers: Chimera or Real Possibility?

6 Key Challenges in Canada-US Water Governance

Part Two: Flashpoints, Conflict, and Cooperation

7 The Columbia River Treaty

8 Apportionment of the St. Mary and Milk Rivers

9 Devils Lake and Red River Basin

10 The Flathead River Basin

11 The Great Lakes: A Model of Transboundary Cooperation

Looking Back, Looking Forward

12 Conclusion

List of Contributors

Index

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