Canadian Environmental Policy Context and Cases

by VanNijnatten, Debora; Boardman, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780195415902
• ISBN10: 0195415906
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-06
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Over the last decade, the context for environmental policy-making inCanada has undergone significant change. The late 1980s saw growing awareness ofthe magnitude of environmental degradation, rising levels of public concern,flashes of political will, and the formulation of both new domestic laws andinternational agreements via more consultative processes. By the early 1990s,however, the environment took a back seat as government devolved, deregulated,and destaffed. Now, in the post-deficit era, the future of the Canadianenvironmental policy regime is ambiguous. This new edition of CanadianEnvironmental Policy highlights the myriad obstacles that stand in the way ofefforts to craft stronger laws to protect the Canadian environment, among themliberal economic ideals, low levels of public concern, centre-peripheryinequalities, and continental integration.Part One of this essential text analyzes the legal, instrumental, andinstitutional factors that shape policy, along with the competing jurisdictionsand interests--interdepartmental, federal, provincial, business and industry,First Nations, bilateral, international--that form the gauntlet through whichany proposed policy must pass. Part Two details specific cases involvingenvironmental policy, including rural communities and remote resource-rich areasof the country, smog, agricultural pollution, global climate change, and the'new biotechnology' of genetic engineering and its potential environmentalimpacts. The book also includes selected bibliographies on a range of otherenvironmental policy issues.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Debora L. VanNijnatten
Robert Boardman
Part One: Context
Legal Foundations of Canadian Environmental Policy: Underlining Our Values in a Shifting Landscape	3	(22)
Marcia Valiante
Policy Instruments and Implementation Styles: The Evolution of Instrument Choice in Canadian Environmental Policy	25	(21)
Michael Howlett
Continuity and Change in the Canadian Environmental Movement: Assessing the Effects of Institutionalization	46	(20)
Jeremy Wilson
The Business Response to Environmentalism	66	(21)
Douglas Macdonald
Aboriginal Peoples and Environmental Policy in Canada: No Longer at the Margins	87	(20)
Greg Poelzer
Environment Canada as a Networked Institution	107	(16)
G. Bruce Doern
Federal-Provincial Relations and the Environment: Unilateralism, Collaboration, and Rationalization	123	(22)
Kathryn Harrison
The Bumpy Journey Ahead: Provincial Environmental Policies and National Environmental Standards	145	(26)
Debora L. VanNijnatten
Canadian-American Environmental Relations: A Strategic Framework	171	(19)
George Hoberg
Milk-and-Potatoes Environmentalism: Canada and the Turbulent World of International Law	190	(22)
Robert Boardman
Globalization, Internationalization, and Liberal Environmentalism: Exploring Non-Domestic Sources of Influence on Canadian Environmental Policy	212	(21)
Steven Bernstein
Benjamin Cashore
Part Two: Cases
Grounding Environmental Policy: Rural and Remote Communities in Canada	233	(20)
Mary Louise McAllister
Canadian Smog Policy in a Continental Context: Looking South for Stringency	253	(21)
Debora L. VanNijnatten
W. Henry Lambright
Sound Science and Moral Suasion, Not Regulation: Facing Difficult Decisions on Agricultural Non-Point-Source Pollution	274	(12)
Eric Montpetit
Dollar Discourse: The Devaluation of Canada's Natural Capital in Canadian Climate Change Policy	286	(13)
Heather A. Smith
Canada's Threatened Wildlife: Civil Society, Intergovernmental Relations, and the Art of the Possible	299	(22)
Robert Boardman
Some Aspects of the `New Biotechnology' and Its Regulation in Canada	321	(24)
William Leiss
Michael Tyshenko
Appendix: Selected Bibliographies for Environmental Issues	345	(17)
Contributors	362	(3)
Index	365