Political Science Environmental Policy
Water as a Social Opportunity
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2015
- Category
- Environmental Policy
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781553394365
- Publish Date
- Nov 2015
- List Price
- $39.95
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Description
Often when water is thought about, the focus is on problems, challenges, and crises. In November 2012, a group of researchers came together at Queen’s University with the idea that it is more illuminating and constructive to think about water as an opportunity.
Water as a Social Opportunity conveys the idea that the ways in which society responds to water-related challenges has the potential to yield a variety of positive outcomes not just for water, or the economy, but for society more broadly. Contributors consider water issues across Canada from this original perspective, and suggest this concept as a basis for developing a long-overdue national water strategy in Canada.
About the authors
Seanna L. Davidson completed her PhD in geography at the University of Waterloo with the Water Policy and Governance Group, and spent two years working with the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience.
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Jamie Linton is an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Geography at Queen’s University and a fellow at the Queen’s Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy.
Warren E. Mabee is an associate professor in the Department of Geography at Queen’s University, Canada Research Chair in Renewable Energy Development and Implementation, and director of the Queen’s Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy