Levelling the Lake : Transboundary Resource Management in the Lake of the Woods Watershed (Nature | History | Society)

Benidickson, Jamie

University of British Columbia Press（2019/09発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 404 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780774835497
• DDC分類 333.70971311

Full Description

Stretching across Ontario, Manitoba, and Minnesota, the Lake of the Woods and Rainy Lake basin spans boundaries and jurisdictions. Levelling the Lake explores a century and a half of social, economic, and legal arrangements through which the resources and environment of the Lake of the Woods and Rainy Lake watershed have been harnessed and harmed. Jamie Benidickson traces the environmental consequences of mining, forest industries, commercial fishing, hydro-electricity production, and recreation, as well as their often unanticipated impacts on local residents, including Indigenous communities, which encouraged new legal and institutional responses. Assessing the transition from primary resource extraction toward sustainable development at a watershed level, Levelling the Lake also shows how interjurisdictional and transboundary issues - many involving the Canada-US International Joint Commission - continue to play a significant role throughout the region.

Contents

Foreword by Graeme Wynn

Introduction

1 Building Boundaries

2 Cultural, Commercial, and Constitutional Fishing

3 This Land Is My Land - It Can't Be Your Land

4 Water Rights and Water Powers

5 Pulp and Paper: From Emergence to Emergency

6 Bacterial Waterways

7 Levelling the Lake

8 Power Struggles

9 Economy and Ecology

10 We Are All in This Together

11 "Slowly to the Rescue as a Community Fails"

12 Lumbering towards Sustainability

13 Fishing Contests

14 "For Water Knows No Borders"

Conclusion: Finding the Watershed

Notes; Suggested Readings; Index