The Soft Path for Water in a Nutshell

The Soft Path for Water in a Nutshell provides an overview of the steps involved in soft path planning, illustrates how soft path planning differs from conventional, supply management, and discusses the potential for this innovative approach to develop water sustainability in Canada. Originally published in November 2005, revised with research results in September 2007.

Related Publications and Media:
The Soft Path for Water: A Social approach to the physical problem of achieving sustainable water management by Oliver M Brandes and David Brooks (Friends of the Earth Canada) in HORIZONS, PRI, Volume 9, Number 1, May 2006.

Changing Perspectives – Changing Paradigms: Taking the ‘soft path’ to water sustainability in the Okanagan Basin [abstract] by Oliver M Brandes and Lynn Kriwoken, Canadian Water Resources Journal, Volume 31(2): 75-90, 2006.