Environmental Diplomacy: An Examination and a Prospective of Canadian-U.S. Transboundary Environmental Relations |  | Author: John E. Carroll
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
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Media: Hardcover
Pages: 408
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Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.3 x 1.3
ISBN: 0472100297
Dewey Decimal Number: 363.70526
EAN: 9780472100293
ASIN: 0472100297
Publication Date: May 15, 1983
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Condition: Publisher: Univ of Michigan PrDate of Publication: 1983Binding: Hardcover with DustjacketCondition: Near Fine/Very GoodDescription: 0472100297 Tight, clean copy.
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An examination of Canadian/U.S. environmental disputes.
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Thorough descriptive overview of issues up to 1983 May 15, 2008
This book provides a survey of US-Canadian environmental relations from the late 1800s until its publication in 1983. Much has changed since then in terms of the issues along the border, the politics of the environment, and the visibility of these issues. With that in mind, the book provides a good historical background of issues now gone (Garrison Diversion Unit) or dormant (Ross High Dam). It would not be useful for issues such as acid rain where major agreements postdate 1983.
Carroll emphasizes the factual background of these issues: cross-border flooding, water pollution, air pollution, wildlife and wilderness, and the like. His accounts are based on extensive interviews with members of the International Joint Commission and other policy-makers. The book is organized in a straightforward way, with each chapter addressing an individual issue, and Carroll simply goes from one topic to next. There are no overarching analytical themes, and his policy conclusions are rather banal (collect facts jointly, don't surprise the other party, and so on).
If those paragraphs describe what you're looking for, then this book remains useful. For other purposes, it's outdated. I see that there's a revised version in 1990, which I haven't seen. I suspect that it updates the facts in the areas of acid rain but doesn't change the underlying descriptive approach.
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