Table of Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Negotiating Abundance and Scarcity: Introduction to a Fluid Border

Lynne Heasley and Daniel Macfarlane

Part One

Finding the Border: Political Ecologies of Water Governance and Tenure

Openings: Political Ecologies on the Border

Dave Dempsey

1. A Citizen’s Legal Primer on the Boundary Waters Treaty, International Joint Commission, and Great Lakes Water Management

Noah D. Hall and Peter Starr

2. Treaties, Wars, and Salish Sea Watersheds: The Constructed Boundaries of Water Governance

Emma S. Norman and Alice Cohen

3. Contesting the Northwest Passage: Four Far-North Narratives

Andrea Charron

Part Two

Constructing the Border: Hydropolitics, Nationalism, and Megaprojects

Openings: Transboundary Power Flows

Matthew Evenden

4. Dam the Consequences: Hydropolitics, Nationalism, and the Niagara–St. Lawrence Projects

Daniel Macfarlane

5. Quebec’s Water Export Schemes: The Rise and Fall of a Resource Development Idea

Frédéric Lasserre

6. Engineering a Treaty: The Negotiation of the Columbia River Treaty of 1961/1964

Jeremy Mouat

Part Three

Challenging the Border: Ecological Agents of Change

Openings: Border Ecologies in Boundary Waters

James W. Feldman

7. Lines That Don’t Divide: Telling Tales about Animals, Chemicals, and People in the Salish Sea

Joseph E. Taylor III

8. Resiliency and Collapse: Lake Trout, Sea Lamprey, and Fisheries Management in Lake Superior

Nancy Langston

Part Four

Reflections in the Water

Openings: The Lakes at Night

Jerry Dennis

9. Finding Our Place

~ Crossings Jeremy Mouat

~ Meditations on Ice Colin A.M. Duncan and Andrew Marcille

~ Bordering on Significance?
 Daniel Macfarlane

~ To Market, to Market
 Joseph E. Taylor III

~ Leading Waters
 Noah D. Hall

~ On Frames, Perspectives, and Vanishing Points Lynne Heasley

~ Headwaters of Hope Dave Dempsey

Afterword

Keeping Up the Flow

Graeme Wynn

Further Reading

Contributors

Index