Bibliographic record
Abstract
The purpose of this book is to explore the nature of water conflicts and the operation of water management institutions in the Canadian context.It is designed to help analysts and students in the social sciences, environmental studies, and policy studies explore water resource conflicts and the roles that governments and others play in mediating, amplifying, reducing, or exacerbating these disputes.The book was written for both teaching and research purposes.On the teaching side, it fills a big gap in policy and political studies on water in Canada.We have sought in this volume to use a basic and varied institutional approach to policy analysis that is accessible to students in many different disciplines.We do so by presenting overview chapters on the nature of water and water politics, together with various chapters highlighting specific water policy issues and conflicts in different parts of Canada.The work includes research by a number of contributors on water resource management across Canada.The unifying concern is with institutional analysis and design to improve water policy and governance.The focus on conflicts related to multiple uses of water is a key element in the growing body of work on common property resources, water conflict, and water policy internationally.For the purposes of this book, all authors assume that institutional arrangements evolve, are adaptable, and can be redesigned and improved.The individual chapters illustrate the diversity and complexity of water resource issues and policies in Canada and highlight the enduring and future challenges policy-makers face in trying to govern and manage Canada's waters.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".