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Article: The integrated management of the St. Lawrence River: a social experiment in public participation.
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- Quebec Studies
- Article date:
- September 22, 2006
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Introduction
In Quebec, over the past thirty years, public officials, scientists, and citizens have been brought together to protect and restore the St. Lawrence River. However, the role and influence of each group of these social actors have evolved over rime. New tasks seem to have grown out of the successive policies that guided the management of Quebec's major waterway--legal-bureaucratic, ecosystemic, and, lately, the integrated management of natural resources. An overview of how Quebec society has dealt in the past and copes today with the sustainable management of the St. Lawrence River is very revealing. How a society answers twenty-first century ...