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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.
Those who control water, hold power. Complicating matters, water is
a flow resource; constantly changing states between liquid, solid,
and gas, being incorporated into living and non-living things and
crossing boundaries of all kinds. As a result, water governance has
much to do with the question of boundaries and scale: who is in and
who is out of decision-making structures? Which of the many
boundaries that water crosses should be used for decision-making
related to its governance? Recently, efforts to understand the
relationship between water and political boundaries have come to
the fore of water governance debates: how and why does water
governance fragment across sectors and governmental departments?
How can we govern shared waters more effectively? How do politics
and power play out in water governance? This book brings together
and connects the work of scholars to engage with such questions.
The introduction of scalar debates into water governance
discussions is a significant advancement of both governance studies
and scalar theory: decision-making with respect to water is often,
implicitly, a decision about scale and its related politics. When
water managers or scholars explore municipal water service delivery
systems, argue that integrated approaches to salmon stewardship are
critical to their survival, query the damming of a river to provide
power to another region and investigate access to potable water -
they are deliberating the politics of scale. Accessible, engaging,
and informative, the volume offers an overview and advancement of
both scalar and governance studies while examining practical
solutions to the challenges of water governance.
Those who control water, hold power. Complicating matters, water is
a flow resource; constantly changing states between liquid, solid,
and gas, being incorporated into living and non-living things and
crossing boundaries of all kinds. As a result, water governance has
much to do with the question of boundaries and scale: who is in and
who is out of decision-making structures? Which of the many
boundaries that water crosses should be used for decision-making
related to its governance? Recently, efforts to understand the
relationship between water and political boundaries have come to
the fore of water governance debates: how and why does water
governance fragment across sectors and governmental departments?
How can we govern shared waters more effectively? How do politics
and power play out in water governance? This book brings together
and connects the work of scholars to engage with such questions.
The introduction of scalar debates into water governance
discussions is a significant advancement of both governance studies
and scalar theory: decision-making with respect to water is often,
implicitly, a decision about scale and its related politics. When
water managers or scholars explore municipal water service delivery
systems, argue that integrated approaches to salmon stewardship are
critical to their survival, query the damming of a river to provide
power to another region and investigate access to potable water -
they are deliberating the politics of scale. Accessible, engaging,
and informative, the volume offers an overview and advancement of
both scalar and governance studies while examining practical
solutions to the challenges of water governance.
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.
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
percent of the world's total freshwater resources, and Border Flows
t races 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.
Since 1909, the waters along the Canada-US border have been
governed in accordance with the Boundary Water Treaty, but much has
changed in the last 100 years. This engaging volume brings together
experts from both sides of the border to examine the changing
relationship between Canada and the US with respect to shared
waters, as well as the implications of these changes for
geopolitics and the environment. Water without Borders? is a timely
publication given the increased attention to shared water issues,
and particularly because 2013 is the United Nations International
Year of Water Cooperation. Water without Borders? is designed to
help readers develop a balanced understanding of the most pressing
shared water issues between Canada and the United States. The
contributors explore possible frictions between governance
institutions and contemporary management issues, illustrated
through analyses of five specific transboundary water
"flashpoints." The volume offers both a historical survey of
transboundary governance mechanisms and a forward-looking
assessment of new models of governance that will allow us to manage
water wisely in the future.
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