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Border flows : a century of the Canadian-American water relationship /

"Declining access to fresh water is one of the twenty-first century's most pressing environmental and human rights challenges, yet the struggle for water is not a new cause. The 8,800-kilometer border dividing Canada and the United States contains more than 20 percent of the world's t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Heasley, Lynne (Editor ), Macfarlane, Daniel, 1979- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press, 2016.
Colección:Canadian history and environment series ; 6.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A citizen's legal primer on the Boundary Waters Treaty, International Joint Commission, and Great Lakes water management / Noah D. Hall and Peter Starr
  • Treaties, wars, and Salish Sea watersheds : the constructed boundaries of water governance / Emma S. Norman and Alice Cohen
  • Contesting the Northwest Passage : four far-north narratives / Andrea Charron
  • Dam the consequences : hydropolitics, nationalism, and the Niagara St. Lawrence projects / Daniel Macfarlane
  • Quebec's water export schemes : the rise and fall of a resource development idea / Frédéric Lasserre
  • Engineering a treaty : the negotiation of the Columbia River Treaty of 1961/1964 / Jeremy Mouat
  • Lines that don't divide : telling tales about animals, chemicals, and people in the Salish Sea / Joseph E. Taylor III
  • Resiliency and collapse : lake trout, sea lamprey, and fisheries management in Lake Superior / Nancy Langston
  • Finding our place. Crossings / Jeremy Mouat ; Meditations on ice / Colin A.M. Duncan and Andrew Marcille ; Bordering on significance? / Daniel Macfarlane ; To market, to market / Joseph E. Taylor III ; Leading waters / Noah D. Hall ; On frames, perspectives, and vanishing points / Lynne Heasley ; Headwaters of hope / Dave Dempsey.