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Eugene Z. Stakhiv
US Co-Director, IJC LOSLR Study Board
Institute for Water Resources/US Army Corps of Engineers
"Analytical Collaborative Planning - International Joint Commission (US-Canada) Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River (LOSLR) Study"
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Grace Conference Room
Dr. Stakhiv will speak about the recently completed LOSLR study, discussing the planning,
evaluation, public involvement and the technological innovations that resulted. There are
numerous permutations of watershed/river basin management approaches; mostly dependent on
the institutional setting of the basin. There is a significant recent momentum towards
grassroots watershed management organizations that, in the absence of a dominant institution,
attempt to coordinate programs. Each of these approaches has its merits and transferable
lessons that could be added to the "toolkit" of future approaches to integrated water
resources management and sustainable development. This study represents a traditional
approach to watershed/river basin management, relying on a long functioning institution,
the International Joint Commission (IJC), to develop a binding solution to an important
subset of continuously evolving or emergent problems of the basin (water diversions and
export, system operations, navigation improvements, water quality, and invasive species,
among others). Within this context the LOSLR Study was able to develop a "Shared Vision"
planning framework that involved an extensive public participation effort.
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