Download or read book Factors Affecting Future Development in Key Economic Sectors in the Peace Athabasca and Slave River Basins written by Northern River Basins Study (Canada) and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Technical Reports of the Northern River Basins Study by Subject and Geographical Area Studied written by Mark S. J. Ouellett and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists Northern River Basins Study technical reports by issue number, subject, and geographic area studied. Subject areas used to classify the reports are: hydrology/hydraulics, nutrients/dissolved oxygen, contaminants, food chain, drinking water, other uses, traditional knowledge, and synthesis and modelling. Ten geographic divisions are used: three each for the Athabasca and Peace Rivers, and one each of the Wapiti/Smoky rivers, Peace-Athabasca Delta, Lake Athabasca, and Rivière des Rochers/Slave River.
Download or read book Northern River Basins Study written by Northern River Basins Study (Canada) and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report to the federal ministers of Environment and Indian & Northern Affairs, Alberta's Minister of Environmental Protection, and NWT's Minister of Renewable Resources. Summarises the main scientific findings of the Northern River Basins Study, which was established to examine the relationship between industrial, municipal, agricultural, and other development and the Peace, Athabasca, and Slave River basins. Reviews the characteristics of the northern river basins and their peoples, the organisation of the Study, and major findings in the areas of environmental overview, use of aquatic resources, traditional knowledge, flow regulation, fish distribution and habitat, nutrients, dissolved oxygen, contaminants, drinking water, ecosystem health, modelling, human health, and cumulative effects. Recommendations by the Study Board, First Nations, and scientific advisors regarding such issues as basin management, monitoring, research, public participation, and a successor organisation are then presented. Also includes a summary of opinions, suggestions, and recommendations expressed at 17 community workshops held throughout the northern river basins area.
Download or read book Characterization of Aquatic Uses Within the Peace Athabasca and Slave Rivers written by R. Bruce MacLock and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nutrient Enrichment in the Peace Athabasca and Slave Rivers written by Patricia A. Chambers and published by Canadian Government Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synthesises results from research and monitoring studies undertaken to characterise nutrient loading from all point and diffuse sources in northern Alberta river basins. Also evaluates the impacts of nutrient loading on river chemistry, assesses the response of riverine biota to nutrient loading from pulp mill and municipal effluents, quantifies nutrient responses of benthic biota, and investigates interactions between nutrients and contaminants in pulp mill effluents on food webs. The findings are used to assess the state of aquatic ecosystem health and to develop scientific and management recommendations for the northern river basins.
Download or read book Water Resources Use and Management Issues for the Peace Athabasca and Slave River Basins written by Northern River Basins Study (Canada) and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to assist the Northern River Basins Study Board to discern the attitudes and concerns of basin residents on water management issues and possible recommendations, the Board designed a five-step program to obtain the information. This report concerns the third step, the implementation of data gathering surveys. It describes the survey sample design and selection, questionnaire design, and implementation of a household survey. The study area consisted of 12 regions based on drainage patterns and telephone prefixes in the Peace, Athabasca, and Slave river basins in northern Alberta. Appendices contain the project terms of reference and a copy of the household survey questionnaire.
Download or read book Selected Water Resources Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life After NRBS written by John Stager and published by . This book was released on 1996-04-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proposes principles and goals to act as a basis for designing the future management of the Peace, Athabasca, and Slave River basins, suggesting what kind of river system is wanted. Reviews models of other inter-jurisdictional bodies for managing resource issues and assesses their applicability for northern Alberta basin management; also discusses the role of science and monitoring of the basin ecosystem, the legislative and jurisdictional issues involved in water resource management, the role of the public and First Nations, and results of a stakeholder survey on the future of basin management. Finally, a new structure is proposed for managing the three basins, involving an inter-jurisdictional board and a separate and independent committee to oversee the stewardship of the management functions. The proposal is designed so that it could fit within the Transboundary Management Agreement for the Mackenzie River. The appendix contains a draft document of an Alberta-Northwest Territories Mackenzie headwaters management agreement.
Download or read book Water Resources Use and Management Issues for the Peace Athabasca and Slave River Basins written by Philippe Reicher and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the administration of a survey of northern Alberta river basin stakeholders on water management issues. Stakeholders included municipal governments, industries, agricultural associations and service boards, commercial fishermen and recreation business owners, river transportation operators, trappers, and general stakeholders such as environmental groups, recreational clubs, Aboriginal organisations, and professional associations. Information is included on the identification of stakeholder groups, questionnaire design, survey implementation, and data entry and coding. The appendix, forming the bulk of the document, includes copies of questionnaires sent to the various stakeholder groups and details on coding of the computer data files.
Download or read book Northern River Basins Study Project Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Water Resources Use and Management Issues for the Peace Athabasca and Slave River Basins written by Tony Hoare and published by The Study. This book was released on 1995 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Northern River Basins Study Board will be formulating recommendations covering many areas likely to be of consequence or interest to basin residents. To assist the Board in this task, a series of projects was initiated to survey the residents on their use of northern river basins waters. This report details the efforts undertaken to develop a list of stakeholders that should be approached for input in a workshop setting. These efforts included designing a stakeholder questionnaire, conducting a telephone survey, and analyzing the data. It also reviews the survey results, including the types and membership of stakeholder groups, use of river basins, water management and water use concerns, and preferred location and time of the proposed workshops. The appendix includes a copy of the questionnaire and a directory of stakeholder groups in the survey sample (by category).
Download or read book Water Resources Use and Management Issues for the Peace Athabasca and Slave River Basins written by Golder Associates and published by The Study. This book was released on 1995 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Northern River Basins Study Board will be formulating recommendations covering many areas likely of consequence or interest to basin residents. To assist the Board in this task, a series of projects was initiated to survey the residents on their use of northern river basins waters. Existing information was either not available or as extensive as required. This report details the background work undertaken to devise a survey instrument and strategy to capture for households a representative cross-section of information on water use and resident attitudes toward the water resource. The report also assesses the most effective means for approaching and obtaining information from stakeholder groups. The appendix includes the project terms of reference, a description of how the population stratification method could be applied for the survey, and a draft questionnaire.
Download or read book The Climate of the Peace Athabasca and Slave River Basins written by E. Hudson and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Begins by showing where the northern river basin area of Alberta fits into various climate classifications, then presents current climate data for the northern basins in the form of tables, graphs, and figures. Some of the weather regimes that lead to given temperature and precipitation events across the basins are discussed. This is followed by description of specific meteorological phenomena such as winter weather, snow, permafrost, freezing rain, historical meteorological events such as floods, extreme temperatures, and storms, and an examination of aspects of climate with respect to climate-based activities such as agriculture. Appendices include maps of meteorological stations, temperatures, and precipitation.
Download or read book Water Resources Use and Management Issues for the Peace Athabasca and Slave River Basins written by Philippe Reicher and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water use, Alberta, Athabasca River Watershed, Peace River Watershed, Slave River Watershed.
Download or read book A Compilation of Archived Writings about Environmental Change in the Peace Athabasca and Slave River Basins written by Jean Crozier and published by The Study. This book was released on 1996 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes a project designed to obtain and record existing ecological knowledge of northern Alberta river basins as recorded in archival documents. The documents researched and recorded in a database for this project included journals of fur traders, the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, settlers, and travellers; archived government records such as those from the Geological Survey of Canada and the Dept. of Indian and Northern Affairs; and information from the Hudson Bay Company archives. The database consists of 233 records which may be searched for specific ecological information ranging from river flooding to fish harvest, fur trade and weather records, geological and environmental descriptions, and illness and death of both humans and animals.
Download or read book Cumulative Impacts Within the Northern River Basins written by Frederick J. Wrona and published by Canadian Government Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The NTBS was designed to address the ecological concerns about pulp mill expansion, and to increase scientific knowledge about environmental conditions [ecology, ecosystem sustainability, water pollution and control, habitat, effect on fish and fishing, etc.] in the major river systems of the north. The study's objectives were to gather and interpret sound scientific information about the basins, develop appropriate recommendations for basin management, and communicate effectively with the public. The government response report confirms the governments' commitment to ecosystem sustainability and to pollution control in northern rivers. First Nations and Metis aboriginal [native] peoples contributed significantly to the NRBS.
Download or read book The Peace Athabasca Delta written by Kevin P. Timoney and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the delta, water is boss, change is the only constant, and creation and destruction exist side by side." The Peace-Athabasca Delta in northern Alberta is a globally significant wetland that lies within one of the largest unfragmented landscapes in North America. Arguably the world's largest boreal inland delta, it is renowned for its biological productivity and is a central feature of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Yet the delta and its indigenous cultures lie downstream of Alberta's bitumen sands, whose exploitation comprises one of the largest industrial projects in the world. Kevin Timoney provides an authoritative synthesis of the science and history of the delta, describing its ecology, unraveling its millennia-long history, and addressing its uncertain future. Scientists, students, leaders in the energy sector, government officials and policy makers, and conscientious citizens everywhere should read this lively work.
