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.
Review quotes
"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.
