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Resilience And Law As A Theoretical Backdrop For Natural Resource Management: Flood Management In The Columbia River Basin, Barbara Cosens
Resilience And Law As A Theoretical Backdrop For Natural Resource Management: Flood Management In The Columbia River Basin, Barbara Cosens
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The 1964 Columbia River Treaty entered by the United States and Canada for mutual benefits in flood control and hydropower generation is under review in anticipation of expiration of certain flood control provisions in 2024. This Article asserts that nonstructural measures should be the primary focus of new expenditure on flood risk management in the Columbia River Basin over the next sixty-year period of treaty implementation to align flood risk management with management for ecosystem resilience. Resilience is the measure of the capacity of a system to maintain important functions, structures, identity, and feedback through adaptation in the face of …
Resilience And Water Governance: Adaptive Governance In The Columbia River Basin, Barbara Cosens
Resilience And Water Governance: Adaptive Governance In The Columbia River Basin, Barbara Cosens
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The 1964 Columbia River Treaty between the United States and Canada is currently under review. Under the treaty, the river is jointly operated by the two countries for hydropower and is the largest producer of hydropower in the western hemisphere. In considering the next phase of international river governance, the degree of uncertainty surrounding the drivers of change complicates efforts to predict and manage under traditional approaches that rely on historical ecosystem responses. At the same time, changes in social values have focused attention on ecosystem health, the decline of which has led to the listing of seven salmon and …