Canadian Water Politics: Conflicts and Institutions - Hardcover

Sproule-Jones, Mark; Johns, Carolyn; Heinmiller, B. Timothy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0773534687 ISBN 13: 9780773534681

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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 J

Review:

"An excellent study - with sound scholarship and impressively-clear writing - and a key contribution to evolving policy debates." Robert Boardman, Dalhousie University

About this edition

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0773534687
• ISBN 13: 9780773534681
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 408