Integrated Water Management in Canada

The Experience of Watershed Agencies

Dan Shrubsole, Dan Walters, Barbara Veale, Bruce Mitchell

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9780429996146
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Ecology
• Index: Biological Sciences

This volume provides readers with an opportunity to learn from front line water managers of watershed-based agencies across Canada about integrated water management (or integrated water resource management). In common with practice in much of the world, the responsibility for implementing integrated watershed management in Canada is fragmented. Each province and territory in Canada has developed unique approaches or governance models to guide decision making in that regard. Thus, this edited volume enables readers from around the world to gain insight on the best practices in Canada for achieving success and addressing barriers to implement IWM.

Although there remains non consensus about how to "best" approach river basin management, some of the main observations include:

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• There is a need to balance a focus on "the big picture", with scoping the scale and scope of planning activities in order that feasible and effective solutions can be implemented

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• Three types of integration are popular among the agencies included in the book: (i) among environment, economy and society, (ii) interactions between people and the environment and (iii) integration (or coordination) of administrative activities.

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• Much more attention is required to achieving effective engagement from Indigenous communities

The chapters were originally published in a special issue of the International Journal of Water Resources Development.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• 1 Integrated Water Resources Management in Canada: the experience of watershed agencies
• Editors’ Note
• 2 Integrated watershed management and Ontario’s conservation authorities
• 3 Implementing integrated water management: illustrations from the Grand River watershed
• 4 Lessons from implementing integrated water resource management: a case study of the North Bay-Mattawa Conservation Authority, Ontario
• 5 Integrated water resource management and British Columbia’s Okanagan Basin Water Board
• 6 The integrated watershed management planning experience in Manitoba: the local conservation district perspective
• 7 Applying integrated watershed management in Nova Scotia: a community-based perspective from the Clean Annapolis River Project
• 8 Integrated watershed management in the Bow River basin, Alberta: experiences, challenges, and lessons learned
• 9 The Northeast Avalon Atlantic Coastal Action Program: implementing integrated watershed management in Newfoundland and Labrador
• 10 Implementing integrated watershed management in Quebec: examples from the Saint John River Watershed Organization
• 11 Setting the stage for IWRM: the case of the upper Kiskatinaw River, British Columbia
• Index