This report focuses on current water governance issues in British Columbia and offers insight how it could be transformed to be more sustainable with a Blueprint timeline and milestones.
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This guide was developed to assist community organizations in the watershed planning process. It covers an introduction to watersheds, stakeholder recruitment, watershed planning, communications and required resources.
This discussion paper explores success factors that support collaborative watershed governance through case studies, as well as collaborative watershed governance organizations currently active throughout British Columbia.
Developed by the POLIS Water Sustainability Project and Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources, this report showcases a model for achieving more equitable nation-to-nation relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous governments, with a specific focus on freshwater…
This DFO manual educates citizens on topics related to watershed management, including: stewardship, watershed processes, human impacts and how to reduce them, how streams function, watershed and stream assessments, and provides fact sheets on fish…
These guidebooks provide advice for First Nations who want to take action on watershed planning. They propose a model of First Nations-led watershed planning and aim to support increased First Nations involvement in regional watershed…
This guide was developed to help users understand the value of collaborative watershed governance, build capacity to design and participate in collaborative watershed processes and understanding a range of governance approaches and examples through British…
This project undertook a systematic review of Indigenous watershed initiatives and co-governance arrangements to identify capacity gaps and contribute to shaping the future of water/watershed planning and a new watershed governance regime in British Columbia.…
The Northwest Fisheries Science Center has produced research projects on the following topics: restoration planning, assessments and problem identification, and restoration for a changing climate.
This manual is for community groups and practitioners in Prince Edward Island with steps outlining how to manage watersheds including; gaining background knowledge on the watershed, understanding key impacts on the watershed, assessing priority needs,…
This handbook is intended to advance the use of a watershed approach in the selection, design and siting of wetland and stream restoration and protection projects. Over sixty-five examples are provided to capture a variety…
These reports break down the profile, threats and health of all watersheds in Canada.