Canadian water politics : conflicts and institutions

Sproule-Jones, Mark, 1941- (Added Author). Johns, Carolyn (Carolyn M.), 1967- (Added Author). Heinmiller, B. Timothy, 1975- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780773534681 (bound)
ISBN: 0773534687 (bound)
Physical Description: print
xvii, 390 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-373) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Water as a multiple-use resource and source of political conflict / Carolyn Johns, Mark Sproule-Jones and B. Timothy Heinmiller -- 2. Institutions for water resource management in Canada / Carolyn Johns and Ken Rasmussen -- 3. Instruments and implementation options for water resource management / Karen Thomas -- 4. Property rights and water / Mark Sproule-Jones -- 5. Enough for everyone : policy fragmentation and water institutions in Alberta / Keith Brownsey -- 6. Against the flow : institutions and Canada's water-export debate / John K. Grant -- 7. Politics and pollution on the Great Lakes : the cleanup of Hamilton Harbour / Mark Sproule-Jones -- 8. Non-point source water pollution institutions in Ontario before and after Walkerton / Carolyn Johns -- 9. The St. Lawrence : from river to maritime superhighway / B. Timothy Heinmiller -- 10. Chasing whose fish? : Atlantic fisheries conflicts and institutions / Peter Clancy -- 11. Conflict and institutional reform in the British Columbia Salmon Fishery / Richard Schwindt and Aidan R. Vining -- Conclusion. Institutions and water governance in Canada / B. Timothy Heinmiller, Carolyn Johns and Mark Sproule-Jones.