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Border Flows: A Century of the Canadian-American Water Relationship

Edited by Lynne Heasley, and Daniel Macfarlane

Published by: University of Calgary Press

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Imprint: University of Calgary Press

Sales Date: 2016-11-23

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CA$34.95

Published: November 2016

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Imprint: University of Calgary Press

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Page Count: 352 Pages

Illustrations: 35 illustrations, maps, photographs, and diagrams/charts.

Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.00

352 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 x 23.00 mm, 35 illustrations, maps, photographs, and diagrams/charts.

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ISBN: 9781552388952

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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 traces 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.

Lynne Heasley is an Associate Professor with the Department of History and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at Western Michigan University. She is the author of A Thousand Pieces of Paradise: Landscape and Property in the Kickapoo Valley.

Daniel Macfarlane is an Assistant Professor with the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at Western Michigan University. He is the author of Negotiating a River, Canada, the US and the Creation of the St. Lawrence Seaway.

With Contributions By: Andrea Charron, Alice Cohen, Dave Dempsey, Jerry Dennis, Colin A.M. Duncan, Matthew Evenden, James W. Feldman, Noah D. Hall, Lynne Heasley, Nancy Langston, Frédéric Lasserre, Daniel Macfarlane, Andrew Marcille, Jeremy Mouat, Emma S. Norman, Peter Starr, Joseph E. Taylor III, and Graeme Wynn

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Introduction
Negotiating Abundance and Scarcity: Introduction to a Fluid Border
Lynne Heasley and Daniel Macfarlane

Part One: Finding the Border: Political Ecologies of Water Governance and Tenure

Openings: Political Ecologies on the Border
Dave Dempsey

A Citizen?s Legal Primer on the Boundary Waters Treaty, International Joint Commission, and Great Lakes Water Management
Noah D. Hall and Peter Starr

Treaties, Wars, and Salish Sea Watersheds: The Constructed Boundaries of Water Governance
Emma S. Norman and Alice Cohen

Contesting the Northwest Passage: Four Far?North Narravies
Andrea Charron

Part Two: Constructing the Border: Hydropolitics, Nationalism, and Megaprojects

Openings: Transboundary Power Flows
Matthew Evendeen

Quebec?s Water Export Schemes: The Rise and Fall of a Resource Development Idea
Frédéric Lasserre

Engineering a Treaty: The Negotiation of the Columbia River Treaty of 1961/1964
Jeremy Mouat

Part Three: Challenging the Border: Ecological Agents of Change

Openings: Border Ecologies in Boundary Waters
James W. Feldman

Lines that Don?t Divide: Telling Tales about Animals, Chemicals, and People in the Salish Sea

Resiliency and Collapse: Lake Trout, Sea Lamprey, and Fisheries Management in Lake Superior
Nancy Langston

Part Four: Reflections in the Water

Openings: The Lakes at Night
Jerry Dennis

Finding Our Place

Crossings
Jeremy Mouat

Meditations on Ice
Colin A.M. Duncan and Andrew Marcille

Bordering on Significance?
Daniel Macfarlane

To Market, to Market
Joseph E. Taylor III

Leading Waters
Noah D. Hall

On Frames, Perspectives, and Vanishing Points
Lynne Heasley

Headwaters of Hope
Dave Dempsey

Afterword

Keeping Up the Flow
Graeme Wynn

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