American Review of Canadian Studies articles from September 1997

American Review of Canadian Studies archives from September 1997

Introduction: the present moment in Canada-United States environmental relations.
September 22, 1997... With the exception of the ongoing salmon controversy on the West Coast, environmental disputes between Canada and the United States during the 1990s have seemed minor when compared to those of the 1980s. (1) Public perception holds that the...

Transboundary environmental relations in British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest.
September 22, 1997... The far west has long been an area of considerable environmental activity. In British Columbia the environment is a central element of the province's politics. Similarly, in the Pacific Northwest states, and especially Washington and Oregon,...

Pacific salmon controversy: law, diplomacy, equity, and fish.
September 22, 1997... On 18 July 1997, the Canadian government formally accused the United States of violating the 1985 Pacific Salmon Treaty and requested that the United States submit the issue to binding arbitration. The next day, angry Canadian fishers began a...

Politics of ecosystem management in the Great Lakes Basin.
September 22, 1997... The Great Lakes Basin may constitute the ultimate test of a North American region's capacity to foster environmental protection across a vast and complex ecosystem. Covering a surface area of over three hundred thousand square miles, the Basin...

Great Lakes remedial action plans: fostering adaptive ecosystem-based management processes.
September 22, 1997... Introduction As is well known, the International Joint Commission (IJC) is an institutional mechanism for cooperative problem-solving of water management issues established by the United States-Canada Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909. The...

Commission for Environmental Cooperation and Canada-U.S. environmental governance in the NAFTA era.
September 22, 1997... The advent of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on 1 January 1994, its accompanying North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC), and resulting Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) brought a potentially...

Editorial: "sharing the continent".
September 22, 1997... This somewhat unusual copublished number of The American Review of Canadian Studies and the Canadian Review of American Studies had its beginnings at the 1993 meeting of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States. There, several...

Comparing Canadian and American values: new evidence from national surveys.
September 22, 1997... This article examines portions of Seymour Martin Lipset's thesis concerning the differences in the value systems of Canadians and U.S. Americans (Lipset 1963b). (1) Although Lipset's first presentation of differences in values of Canadians and...

Public policies, social institutions, and earnings inequality: Canada and the United States, 1970-1995.
September 22, 1997... Economists now agree that, since the early 1970s, there has been an unprecedented surge in income inequality and a polarization of earnings in the United States. Although employment growth in the United States has been strong over the past...

Criminal boundaries: the frontier and the contours of Upper Canadian justice, 1792-1840.
September 22, 1997... Introduction Two recent studies of Canadian-American relations pay little or no attention to the pre-Confederation period (Bothwell 1992; Hillmer and Granatstein 1991). (1) This is surprising since it was in this formative era that key...

Paulette Jiles's transnational railway ride: generic change and economic exchange in Sitting in the club car drinking rum and karma-kola.
September 22, 1997... Paulette Jiles's Sitting in the Club Car Drinking Rum and Karma-Kola: A Manual of Etiquette for Ladies Crossing Canada by Train deserves serious attention for its interrogation of Canadian-U.S. borders. The book's playful, transgressive stance...

Environmental governance in an era of participatory decision making: Canadian and American approaches.
September 22, 1997... Environmental degradation defies easy remedies. It knows neither laws nor boundaries and triggers changes within the ecosystem that are hard to trace and even harder to correct. The obvious solution is to prevent degradation in the first place....

Bucke, Whitman, and the cross-border homosocial.
September 22, 1997... I. In 1854 Henry David Thoreau wrote in Walden of a visit paid him by a wandering French-Canadian woodchopper. So taken was Thoreau with this rugged laborer--"a true Homeric or Paphlagonian man" (144), as he put it in his journal--and so...

Introducing deliberative direct democracy in Canada: learning from the American experience.
September 22, 1997... Canada's main political parties have been sceptical if not hostile towards the idea of active citizen participation in the policy-making process. Canadian political leaders have tended to ignore proposals for direct democracy and have found...

North American novel in the United States: Ishmael Reed's Canada.
September 22, 1997... Within the perspective of the constitution of a new North American geopolitical entity, the possibility of constituting a new societal identity also appears; yet this very possibility poses a deep question for the symbolic unity of the...