- ホーム
- > 洋書
- > 英文書
- > History / World
Full Description
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% of the world's total freshwater resources, and Border Flows traces the century-long effort by Canada and the United States to manage and care for their ecologically and economically shared rivers and lakes. Ranging across the continent, from the Great Lakes to the Northwest Passage to the Salish Sea, the histories in Border Flows offer critical insights into the historical struggle to care for these vital waters. From multiple perspectives, the book reveals alternative paradigms in water history, law, and policy at scales from the local to the transnational. Students, concerned citizens, and policymakers alike will benefit from the lessons to be found along this critical international border.
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Negotiating Abundance and Scarcity: Introduction to a Fluid Border
Lynne Heasley and Daniel Macfarlane
Part One
Finding the Border: Political Ecologies of Water Governance and Tenure
Openings: Political Ecologies on the Border
Dave Dempsey
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 Narravies
Andrea Charron
Part Two
Constructing the Border: Hydropolitics, Nationalism, and Maegaprojects
Openings: Transboundary Power Flows
Matthew Evendeen
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
Part Three
Challenging the Border: Ecological Agents of Change
Openings: Border Ecologies in Boundary Waters
James W. Feldman
Lines that Don't Divide: Telling Tales about Animals, Chemicals, and People in the Salish Sea
Resiliency and Collapse: Lake Trout, Sea Lamprey, and Fisheries Management in Lake Superior
Nancy Langston
Part Four
Reflections in the Water
Openings: The Lakes at Night
Jerry Dennis
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
AfterwordKeeping Up the Flow
Graeme Wynn
Further Reading
Contributions
Index
