planetizen.com - 11/4/2009
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Matthew McKinney argues that regional governance is essential to address transboundary issues like climate change, wildlife corridors, shared water resources, and energy development.
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... (20 Sept 2009) Toward an Ethic of Place: Experiments in Regional Governance Matthew McKinney, planetizen Matthew McKinney argues that regional governance is essential to address transboundary issues like climate change, wildlife corridors, shared water resources, and energy development. The Crown of the Continent is one of North America's most majestic landscapes. The 10 million acre region -- located in southern Alberta, British Columbia, and northwestern Montana -- is home to First Nations and Native Americans, farmers and ranchers and footloose entrepreneurs, endangered ...
US, Canada and Mexico Collaborate on Wilderness Preservation
Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network —
Last month, Matthew McKinney wrote for Planetizen about the need for regional collaboration on wilderness areas. This new agreement seems to be working in that direction. From WorldChanging: "The three nations have long cooperated on wilderness management - programs have straddle the U.S.-Canadian border since 1910 and the U.S.-Mexican border since the 1930s. Yet the memorandum of understanding is the first multinational agreement on wilderness protection, according to Vance Martin, president of the Wild Foundation. "It's not very easy to do anything internationally, even ...
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