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The Atlas of British Columbia is the first major cartographic study of the province to be published since 1956. Created through close co-operation between government, the private sector, and the unviersity, it is the successor to the British Columbia Atlas of Resources which, for twenty years, has been the standard reference work used by schools, industry, government, and the general public. The most recent data available have been used to give an accurate, comprehensive picture of British Columbia's economy as it is today. Comparative studies show the development orf the province's manpower and natural resources as well as the rapid growth of industry and technology since the beginning of the century. In party, the emphasis of the atlas reflects thousands of specific requests for up-to-date resource information rercorded over the last ten years.
The first in-depth, interdisciplinary study of Native water rights issues in Canada.
An overview of critical conceptual approaches to water justice, illustrated with global historic and contemporary case studies of socio-environmental struggles.
The book aims to address the interdisciplinary targets of watershed management in mountain regions based on the current knowledge of the subject. The focus of the book is particularly on monitoring, research, and modelling the interactions between the climate, water cycle, and aquatic ecosystem. The issues of watershed management in mountain regions in different parts of Europe, Africa, America and Asia have been the central theme of the book, which is basically divided into five sections: Institutional aspects in control of mountain regions; Stream-flow processes in mountain catchments; Water chemistry and biota in mountain streams and lakes; Effects of forest practices and climate change o...
Study of Lake Koocanusa, Montana (the reservoir formed by impoundment of the Kootenai River by Libby Dam in 1972), was undertaken in 1972 as a continuation of pre-impoundment studies of the Kootenai River underway since 1967. This report presents the water quality-limnological data compiled by the Corps of Engineers from 1972 through 1978. Additional information was provided by the British Columbia Ministry of Environment, Waste Management Branch, and the Water Survey of Canada. The data are presented in tabular form. No analyses are included. (Author).