Monday 10 June 2013

Rosenberg International Forum on Water Policy report on The Mackenzie River Basin

The Rosenberg International Forum on Water Policy released this report based on the findings of a 2012 workshop on transboundary relations in the Mackenzie River Basin. The workshop, http://gordonfoundation.ca/news-item/564 which took place in Vancouver from Sept. 5 to 7, 2012, convened several experts in the fields of law, economics and various scientific disciplines with the goal of looking at the legal and scientific principles relevant to creating a co-ordinated basin-wide approach to management. The workshop was co-hosted by the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation and Simon Fraser University's Adaptation to Climate Change Team.
http://www.sfu.ca/act.html

The Mackenzie River Basin is Canada's largest drainage basin at 1.8 million sq. km – 20 per cent of Canada's landmass – and is among the most intact large-scale ecosystems in North America. While the Basin is relatively undisturbed ecologically, it is at risk from both a warming climate and extractive and hydrological industries. These large forces of change threaten the Basin's ecology, as well as its role as a homeland to aboriginals and northerners who rely on the land and its resources to provide food, clothing, water and other necessities of life.

Full Title: Rosenberg International Forum: The Mackenzie Basin
Author(s): Rosenberg International Forum on Water Policy
http://rosenberg.ucanr.org/
Published: June 10, 2013
Pages: 43
Download file (2.63 MB)
http://gordonfoundation.ca/sites/default/files/publications/Rosenberg%20Final%20-%20WEB.pdf
Source http://gordonfoundation.ca/publication/662

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