Changing Paradigms in Water Resource Management: A Community Participation and Social

In the spirit of respect, reciprocity and truth, I honour and acknowledge Moh’kinsstis, and the traditional treaty 7 territory and oral practices of the Blackfoot confederacy: Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, as well as the Îyâxe Nakoda and Tsuut’ina nations. [...] utilizes the Watershed the need for better environmental Governance Prism (see Figure 1) to re- management and subsequently passed contextualize watersheds themselves as the Canada Water Act in 1970, followed sources of public health, thus framing water by the creation of the Department of the management as a social issue (2012). [...] the various stakeholders, be that researchers, The first of which is that the current system community organizations, NGO’s, and was not designed to incorporate the level governments is one of Integrated Watershed of sustainability planning and community Management’s greatest strengths. [...] it creates a situation where those with the capacity to act do not have the capability to In essence, social learning is a term used to do so and may in fact result in disengagement describe the process of building and sharing from the system as a whole. [...] Furthermore, it allows the need for multi-loop social learning to be for the creativity and reflection required to incorporated into a system that is equipped not only question the underlying system but to handle the varied goals and interests of understand why some solutions are more stakeholders in addition to the power and trust effective than others in solving a problem.