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An innovative assessment of water use conflict and governance across Canada.
Water, an increasingly valuable multiple-use resource, is the source of continuing conflict in Canada and abroad. Its use and control presents significant challenges to governments, stakeholders, and citizens.
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.
Canada - with its Great Lakes, three oceans, and border with the US - provides an ideal reference point for studying water use rivalries, conflicts, and governance. By exploring the controversies surrounding water management in Canada, Canadian Water Politics is an essential source for citizens, officials, academics and students, and contributes to our understanding of natural resource management and environmental policy at home and globally.
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.
Canada - with its Great Lakes, three oceans, and border with the US - provides an ideal reference point for studying water use rivalries, conflicts, and governance. By exploring the controversies surrounding water management in Canada, Canadian Water Politics is an essential source for citizens, officials, academics and students, and contributes to our understanding of natural resource management and environmental policy at home and globally.
Details
408 Pages, 6 x 9
22 diagrams 1 map 9 tables
ISBN 9780773534698
November 2008
Formats: Cloth, Paperback, eBook
"An excellent study - with sound scholarship and impressively-clear writing - and a key contribution to evolving policy debates." Robert Boardman, Dalhousie University
Mark Sproule-Jones, professor in the Department of Political Science and the Victor K. Copps Chair of Urban Studies, McMaster University, is the author of a number of books on environmental policy including The Restoration of the Great Lakes.
Carolyn Johns is associate professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University where she researches and teaches in the areas of public policy, public administration and environmental policy.
B. Timothy Heinmiller is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Brock University where he researches and teaches in the areas of resource management, public policy, and public administration.
Carolyn Johns is associate professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University where she researches and teaches in the areas of public policy, public administration and environmental policy.
B. Timothy Heinmiller is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Brock University where he researches and teaches in the areas of resource management, public policy, and public administration.
Canadian Water Politics
Edited by Mark Sproule-Jones, Carolyn Johns, and B. Timothy Heinmiller
Table of Contents
Tables and Figures vii
Preface ix
Mark Sproule-Jones and Carolyn Johns
Contributors xi
Abbreviations xv
Introduction 3
Carolyn Johns
PART ONE: BACKGROUND
1 Water as a Multiple-Use Resource and Source of Political Conflict 19
Carolyn Johns, Mark Sproule-Jones, and B. Timothy Heinmiller
PART TWO: INSTITUTIONS, INSTRUMENTS, AND PROPERTY RIGHTS FOR WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN CANADA
2 Institutions for Water Resource Management in Canada 59
Carolyn Johns and Ken Rasmussen
3 Instruments and Implementation Options for Water Resource Management 90
Karen Thomas
4 Property Rights and Water 116
Mark Sproule-Jones
PART THREE: THE POLITICS OF WATER WITHDRAWALS
5 Enough for Everyone: Policy Fragmentation and Water Institutions in Alberta 133
Keith Brownsey
6 Against the Flow: Institutions and Canada’s Water-Export Debate 156
John K. Grant
PART FOUR: THE POLITICS OF WATER POLLUTION
7 Politics and Pollution on the Great Lakes: The Cleanup of Hamilton Harbour 179
Mark Sproule-Jones
8 Non-point Source Water Pollution Institutions in Ontario before and after Walkerton 203
Carolyn Johns
PART FIVE: THE POLITICS OF I N - STREAM WATER USES
9 The St Lawrence: From River to Maritime Superhighway 243
B. Timothy Heinmiller
10 Chasing Whose Fish? Atlantic Fisheries Conflicts and Institutions 261
Peter Clancy
11 Conflict and Institutional Reform in the British Columbia Salmon Fishery 286
Richard Schwindt and Aidan R. Vining
Conclusion: Institutions and Water Governance in Canada 308
B. Timothy Heinmiller, Carolyn Johns, and Mark Sproule-Jones
Bibliography 333
Index 375
Edited by Mark Sproule-Jones, Carolyn Johns, and B. Timothy Heinmiller
Table of Contents
Tables and Figures vii
Preface ix
Mark Sproule-Jones and Carolyn Johns
Contributors xi
Abbreviations xv
Introduction 3
Carolyn Johns
PART ONE: BACKGROUND
1 Water as a Multiple-Use Resource and Source of Political Conflict 19
Carolyn Johns, Mark Sproule-Jones, and B. Timothy Heinmiller
PART TWO: INSTITUTIONS, INSTRUMENTS, AND PROPERTY RIGHTS FOR WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN CANADA
2 Institutions for Water Resource Management in Canada 59
Carolyn Johns and Ken Rasmussen
3 Instruments and Implementation Options for Water Resource Management 90
Karen Thomas
4 Property Rights and Water 116
Mark Sproule-Jones
PART THREE: THE POLITICS OF WATER WITHDRAWALS
5 Enough for Everyone: Policy Fragmentation and Water Institutions in Alberta 133
Keith Brownsey
6 Against the Flow: Institutions and Canada’s Water-Export Debate 156
John K. Grant
PART FOUR: THE POLITICS OF WATER POLLUTION
7 Politics and Pollution on the Great Lakes: The Cleanup of Hamilton Harbour 179
Mark Sproule-Jones
8 Non-point Source Water Pollution Institutions in Ontario before and after Walkerton 203
Carolyn Johns
PART FIVE: THE POLITICS OF I N - STREAM WATER USES
9 The St Lawrence: From River to Maritime Superhighway 243
B. Timothy Heinmiller
10 Chasing Whose Fish? Atlantic Fisheries Conflicts and Institutions 261
Peter Clancy
11 Conflict and Institutional Reform in the British Columbia Salmon Fishery 286
Richard Schwindt and Aidan R. Vining
Conclusion: Institutions and Water Governance in Canada 308
B. Timothy Heinmiller, Carolyn Johns, and Mark Sproule-Jones
Bibliography 333
Index 375
