Take a walk on the wet side: One perspective on community-based watershed planning
Abstract
In Canada, rivers and lakes have been focal
points of settlement, economic
development, and transportation. Water is
essential to the Canadian economy: it is an
essential resource for food production,
most industrial processes, many recreational
activities, and much urban development
across the country. As planning is
increasingly focusing on achieving
sustainability, it is essential that planning
and management decisions be based on
the ecosystem as a whole, and not on
isolated aspects of it.