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8. Transcending Borders Through Postcolonial Water Governance? Indigenous Water Governance Across the Canada-US Border

Authors : Emma S. Norman, Karen Bakker

Published in: Water Policy and Governance in Canada

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter explores the evolution of transboundary water governance along the Canada-US border. We examine two key examples in two eras of water management across the Canada-US border, separated by more than a century. First, we examine the Boundary Waters Treaty (a bi-national agreement between the federal governments of Canada and the United States), as an emblematic example of the dominant concerns that underpinned (colonial settler) water governance at the turn of the twentieth century, creating the framework in which nation-state governance mechanisms were dominant. Second, we examine the development of Indigenous-led transboundary governing bodies, focusing on the Yukon River Intertribal Watershed Council. We argue that the YRITWC is emblematic of a new era of transboundary water governance: participatory, and (in an increasing number of cases) Indigenous led – which implies new principles for water governance, involving an expanded network of actors beyond the nation-state.

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Metadata
Title
Transcending Borders Through Postcolonial Water Governance? Indigenous Water Governance Across the Canada-US Border
Authors
Emma S. Norman
Karen Bakker
Copyright Year
2017
Book
Water Policy and Governance in Canada

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-42805-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-42806-2

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42806-2_8