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Political Science Environmental Policy

Water as a Social Opportunity

edited by Seanna L. Davidson, Jamie Linton & Warren E. Mabee

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2015
Category
Environmental Policy
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781553394365
    Publish Date
    Nov 2015
    List Price
    $39.95

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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.

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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

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