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Informationen zum Autor Dan Shrubsole is a Professor in the Department of Geography at The University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. His research focuses on water governance, with a particular interest on river basin planning and management, floodplain management, wetland management and diffuse source pollution control. He has conducted research primarily in Canada and Australia. He is a past board member of the Canadian Water Resources Association, and is currently President of the Canadian Association of Geographers. Dan Walters is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Nipissing University, has been studying integrated watershed management in Ontario for fifteen years. His research activities include assessing First Nations water risks, source water protection strategies, wetland conservation, nutrient management, cyanobacteria management, and the conservation authorities program. Barbara Veale is Director of Planning and Watershed Management for the Halton Region Conservation Authority, a watershed management agency based in Burlington, Ontario. Barb has extensive experience in implementing integrated watershed management, co-authored reports and journal articles on the subject, and provided advice to fledgling watershed management groups in Canada and elsewhere. Barb’s doctoral research focused on watershed governance and explored the use of watershed report cards as decision tools for watershed management in Canada. Bruce Mitchell, FRSC, is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of Waterloo. His research focuses on water policy and governance, with particular attention to implementation of integrated water management. He has conducted research in Canada, Australia, Britain, China, India, Indonesia and Nigeria. He is a Past President of the Canadian Water Resources Association, and an honorary professor at five Chinese universities. Zusammenfassung This edited volume enables readers to gain insight on the best practices in Canada for achieving success or addressing barriers to implement IWM. The chapters were originally published in a special issue of the International Journal of Water Resources Development. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Integrated Water Resources Management in Canada: the experience of watershed agencies Dan Shrubsole, Dan Walters, Barbara Veale and Bruce Mitchell Editors Note Dan Shrubsole, Dan Walters, Barbara Veale and Bruce Mitchell 2. Integrated watershed management and Ontario‘s conservation authorities Charley Worte 3. Implementing integrated water management: illustrations from the Grand River watershed Barbara Veale and Sandra Cooke 4. Lessons from implementing integrated water resource management: a case study of the North Bay-Mattawa Conservation Authority, Ontario Paula Scott, Brian Tayler and Dan Walters 5. Integrated water resource management and British Columbia‘s Okanagan Basin Water Board Natalya Melnychuk, Nelson Jatel and Anna L. Warwick Sears 6. The integrated watershed management planning experience in Manitoba: the local conservation district perspective Colleen Cuvelier and Cliff Greenfield 7. Applying integrated watershed management in Nova Scotia: a community-based perspective from the Clean Annapolis River Project Levi Cliche and Lindsey Freeman 8. Integrated watershed management in the Bow River basin, Alberta: experiences, challenges, and lessons learned Judy Stewart and Mark Bennett 9. The Northeast Avalon Atlantic Coastal Action Program: implementing integrated watershed management in Newfoundland and Labrador Kailyn Burke 10. Implementing integrated watershed management in Quebec: examples from the Saint John River Watershed Organization Marie-Claude Leclerc and Michel Grégoire 11. Setting the stage for integrated wat...