Article Title
The Devils Lake, North Dakota -- Manitoba Water Trouble Case: A Transitional Environmental Problem
Document Type
Article
Abstract
The Devils Lake—Manitoba water trouble case clearly shows the characteristics of a transnational environmental problem. This class of problem is difficult to negotiate because little innovative organizational structure has been created to manage contemporary multi-definitional problems. Furthermore, two major social forces, global interdependence and ethnolocal independence, act as mechanisms within an ecosystem management context to complicate attempts by parties to influence each others' behavior. Unilateral action rules the day but is under increasing pressure by social and cultural forces to give way to negotiated changes in transboundary cost-sharing and resource control situations.
Recommended Citation
Brandt, Lisa
(2001)
"The Devils Lake, North Dakota -- Manitoba Water Trouble Case: A Transitional Environmental Problem,"
Great Plains Sociologist: Vol. 13:
Iss.
1, Article 5.
Available at:
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/greatplainssociologist/vol13/iss1/5