Do good fences make good neighbours? Canada–United States transboundary water governance, the Boundary Waters Treaty, and twenty-first-century challenges

Norman, Emma S.; Bakker, Karen

doi:10.1080/02508060.2014.978973

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“…Lankford, Bakker, Zeitoun, & Conway, 2013), including the analysis of the security discourses used by powerful countries to achieve their individual goals, such as project compliance (Mirumachi, 2013). A subgroup of this literature more specifically focuses on local transboundary power relationships and neighbouring concepts (Cortéz-Lara, 2012;Maganda, 2005;Norman & Bakker, 2015;Walsh, 2012). In response, other works have analysed the challenges related to the establishment of a participatory process that fosters stakeholder participation (Kranz & Mostert, 2010;Turton & Earle, 2005;Wester, Merrey, & de Lange, 2003).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 96%

Against the current: transboundary water management in small states on two continents

Koff

Maganda

2015

Water International

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In general, studies on regional integration and transboundary water management (TWM) focus on the relationships between large states. Instead, this paper analyses TWM in relation to two cross-border cases involving small states: GermanyLuxembourg and Mexico-Belize. Small states are significant due to their presumed adherence to regional governance and vulnerability to external shocks, especially those of climate change and environmental threats. Specifically, the article asks: How well do small states implement regional water governance models, especially in crossborder contexts? It concludes that the interpersonal bargaining and consensus-building that characterizes small state governance limits effective TWM.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 96%

Against the current: transboundary water management in small states on two continents

Koff

Maganda

2015

Water International

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“…(3) geopolitics and international relations [66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73] ; and (4) vulnerability, adaptation, and risk to global change. 46,63,64,[74][75][76][77][78] Despite such conceptual diversity and even ambiguity, interest in water availability, affordability, quality, and its social and economic dimension influence research agendas across disciplines, including agriculture, law, anthropology, geography, economics, biomedicine, public health, and public policy.…”

Section: Perspectives On Water Security and Water Insecuritymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Water security is a complex and contested goal‐oriented concept that addresses multiple conceptual domains and spatial scales. Earlier reviews of the current water security literature and policy implications reveal that the diversity of research cuts across several interdisciplinary themes: (1) human needs and development; (2) ecological sustainability; (3) geopolitics and international relations; and (4) vulnerability, adaptation, and risk to global change . Despite such conceptual diversity and even ambiguity, interest in water availability, affordability, quality, and its social and economic dimension influence research agendas across disciplines, including agriculture, law, anthropology, geography, economics, biomedicine, public health, and public policy.…”

Section: Perspectives On Water Security and Water Insecuritymentioning

confidence: 99%

Progress in household water insecurity metrics: a cross‐disciplinary approach

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Despite the central importance of water for human wellbeing and development, researchers and practitioners have few tools to quantitatively measure, assess, and compare the scope and scale of household and individual water insecurity across cultural and climatic variations. There are multiple definitions of water insecurity, and the analytical tools for measuring household-level water insecurity are in their infancy. This paper provides an overview and systematic evaluation of current household and individual water in security metrics for human development. We seek to advance micro-level metrics-attending to the considerations of dimensionality, temporality, unit of analysis, and comparabilitybecause they will provide the research community with necessary tools to untangle the complex determinants and outcomes of water insecurity. Moreover, such metrics will support the translation of research outcomes into meaningful and useful products and results for stakeholders, communities, and decision-makers.

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“…This vital liquid regularly crosses physical and political boundaries. Water crosses boundaries and scales [28,[36][37][38][39] and there is enormous variation across countries, states/provinces/regions, and cities regarding who is responsible for water allocation, distribution, and delivery. In Canada, governing water is tortuous as there is a broad range of jurisdictional issues and shared responsibilities across levels of government.…”

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Governing Urban Water Conflict through Watershed Councils—A Public Policy Analysis Approach and Critique

Pacheco-Vega

2020

Water

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Cities face substantial water governance challenges, even more so when their activities are water-intensive, as global tourism is. As the lower-most level of government, municipalities face important challenges when dealing with water stress. Designing robust urban water policy thus may require us to challenge currently popular modes of governance by river basin councils, as predicated by the integrated water resources management (IWRM) paradigm. In this paper, I conduct a public policy analysis of a case study of intra-urban water conflict in the Mexican city of San Miguel de Allende (SMA), an extremely popular tourist destination with substantive water scarcity challenges. I draw insights from an application of the Institutional Grammar Tool, IGT (as proposed by Ostrom and Crawford) on a series of textual datasets derived from ethnographic, qualitative longitudinal field research, document analysis, and elite interviews with stakeholders to explain the reasons underlying community concerns about urban water supply which have derived in conflict in San Miguel de Allende and increasingly manifested over the past few years (2017–2020). My analysis suggests that to tackle growing intra-urban antagonism derived from increasing water insecurity in San Miguel de Allende, a more localized, micro-watershed approach might be more fruitful than a traditional river basin council strategy.

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Do good fences make good neighbours? Canada–United States transboundary water governance, the Boundary Waters Treaty, and twenty-first-century challenges

Cited by 13 publications

References 26 publications

Against the current: transboundary water management in small states on two continents

Against the current: transboundary water management in small states on two continents

Progress in household water insecurity metrics: a cross‐disciplinary approach

Governing Urban Water Conflict through Watershed Councils—A Public Policy Analysis Approach and Critique

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