"In The Lives of Lake Ontario Daniel Macfarlane details the lake's relationship with the Indigenous nations, settler cultures, and modern countries that have occupied its shores. He examines the myriad ways Canada and the United States have used and abused this resource: through dams and c...

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1. Verfasser:	Macfarlane, Daniel 1979- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago McGill-Queen's University Press 2024
Schriftenreihe:	McGill-Queen's rural, wildland, and resource studies series 17
Schlagworte:	Natural history / Ontario, Lake (N.Y. and Ont.) Ontario, Lake (N.Y. and Ont.) / Environmental conditions Ontario, Lake (N.Y. and Ont.) / History Ontario, Lac (N.Y. et Ont.) / Conditions environnementales Ontario, Lac (N.Y. et Ont.) / Histoire Sciences naturelles / Ontario, Lac (N.Y. et Ont.)
Zusammenfassung:	"In The Lives of Lake Ontario Daniel Macfarlane details the lake's relationship with the Indigenous nations, settler cultures, and modern countries that have occupied its shores. He examines the myriad ways Canada and the United States have used and abused this resource: through dams and canals, drinking water and sewage, trash and pollution, fish and foreign species, industry and biodiversity loss. Serving as both bridge and buffer between the two countries, Lake Ontario came to host Canada's largest megalopolis. Yet its transborder exploitation exacted a tremendous ecological cost, leading people to abandon the lake. Innovative regulation in the later twentieth century, such as the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreements, have partially improved Lake Ontario's health. Despite signs that communities are reengaging with Lake Ontario, it remains the most degraded of the Great Lakes, with new and old problems alike exacerbated by climate change. The Lives of Lake Ontario demonstrates that this lake is both remarkably resilient and uniquely vulnerable."--Dust jacket "No two nations have exchanged natural resources, produced transborder environmental agreements, or cooperatively altered ecosystems on the same scale as Canada and the United States. Environmental and energy diplomacy have profoundly shaped both countries' economies, politics, and landscapes for over 150 years. Natural Allies looks at the history of US-Canada relations through an environmental lens. From fisheries in the late nineteenth century to oil pipelines in the twenty-first century, Daniel Macfarlane recounts the scores of transborder environmental and energy arrangements made between the two nations. Many became global precedents that influenced international environmental law, governance, and politics, including the Boundary Waters Treaty, Trail Smelter case, hydroelectric megaprojects, and the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreements. In addition to water, fish, wood, minerals, and myriad other resources, Natural Allies details the history of the continental energy relationship--from electricity to uranium to fossil fuels--showing how Canada became vital to American strategic interests and, along with the United States, a major international energy power and petro-state. Environmental and energy relations facilitated the integration and prosperity of Canada and the United States, but also made them responsible for the current climate crisis and other unsustainable forms of ecological degradation. Looking to the future, Natural Allies argues that the concept of national security must be widened to include natural security--a commitment to public, national, and international safety from environmental harms, especially those caused by human actions."--
Beschreibung:	xiii, 268 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:	9780228022237 0228022231