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Governing Transboundary Waters - Canada, the United States, and Indigenous Communities (Hardcover)
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Governing Transboundary Waters - Canada, the United States, and Indigenous Communities (Hardcover)
Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
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Winner of the Political Geography Specialty Group's 2015 Julian
Minghi Distinguished Book Award! With almost the entire world's
water basins crossing political borders of some kind, understanding
how to cooperate with one's neighbor is of global relevance. For
Indigenous communities, whose traditional homelands may predate and
challenge the current borders, and whose relationship to water
sources are linked to the protection of traditional lifeways (or
'ways of life'), transboundary water governance is deeply
political. This book explores the nuances of transboundary water
governance through an in-depth examination of the Canada-US border,
with an emphasis on the leadership of Indigenous actors (First
Nations and Native Americans). The inclusion of this "third
sovereign" in the discussion of Canada-U.S. relations provides an
important avenue to challenge borders as fixed, both in terms of
natural resource governance and citizenship, and highlights the
role of non-state actors in charting new territory in water
governance. The volume widens the conversation to provide a rich
analysis of the cultural politics of transboundary water
governance. In this context, the book explores the issue of what
makes a good up-stream neighbor and analyzes the rescaling of
transboundary water governance. Through narrative, the book
explores how these governance mechanisms are linked to wider issues
of environmental justice, decolonization, and self-determination.
To highlight the changing patterns of water governance, it focuses
on six case studies that grapple with transboundary water issues at
different scales and with different constructions of border
politics, from the Pacific coastline to the Great Lakes.
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