POL 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Great Lakes Areas Of Concern, Engo, Hydroelectricity
1 Feb 2018
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Common pool resource (difficult to exclude but highly subtractable) Sets of interests: people who want to use that resource conflict over the sharing of the. Provincial governments: even though the fed gov has power over international boundaries, everyone knows provincial gov dominates. Check the quality of water and checks. A ridge of high land dividing two areas that are drained by different river systems. If you dump a bucket of water anywhere, it will hypothetically go back to the watershed in its area. Everyone living in a watershed area are linked together in a lot of ways. Gl represent the biggest watershed is the biggest in the world, with a lot of ppl sharing it. Problems with the protection of the gl: intercepted by a number of districts. Ppl think the gls are inexhaustible, but this is not a renewable resource. If you were to drain them today, they would never refill.
