Main entry:

Doern, G. Bruce, author.

Title & Author:

Green-lite : complexity in fifty years of Canadian environmental policy, governance, and democracy / G. Bruce Doern, Graeme Auld, and Christopher Stoney.

Publication:

Montreal ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2015]
©2015

Description:

xii, 422 pages ; 24 cm

Series:

Carleton library series ; 234

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-416) and index.
Part One Conceptual foundations and historical context -- 1 Conceptual Foundations -- 2. Canadian Environmental Policy and Agendas in Liberal and Conservative Prime Ministerial Eras -- 3. International Environmental Policy: Canada-US Relations and Global Agreements.
Part Two Empirical analysis of six environmental regimes -- 4. The Environment Canada-Centred Regime -- 5. The Energy-Environment Regime -- 6. The Natural Resources-Environment Regime -- 7. The Federal-Cities and Urban Sustainability Regime -- 8. The Federal-Municipal Infrastructure Sustainability Regime -- 9. The NGO, Market, and Business-Environment Regime -- 10. Green-lite: Complexity in Fifty Years of Canadian Environmental Policy, Governance, and Democracy.
Issued also in electronic format.

Summary:

"Anchored in the core literature on natural resources, energy production, and environmental analysis, Green-lite is a critical examination of Canadian environmental policy, governance, and politics drawing out key policy and governance patterns to show that the Canadian story is one of complexity and often weak performance. Making a compelling argument for deeper historical analysis of environmental policy and situating environmental concerns within political and fiscal agendas, the authors provide extended discussions on three relatively new features of environmental policy: the federal-cities and urban sustainability regime, the federal-municipal infrastructure regime, and the regime of agreements with NGO and businesses that often relegate governments to observing participants rather than being policy leaders. They probe the Harper era's muzzling of environmental science and scientists, Canada's oil sands energy and resource economy, and the government's core Alberta and Western Canadian political base. The first book to provide an integrated, historical, and conceptual examination of Canadian environmental policy over many decades, Green-lite captures complex notions of what environmental policy and green agendas seek to achieve in a business-dominated economy, of diverse energy producing technologies, and pollution harms and risks."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780773545816 (bound)
0773545816 (bound)
9780773545823 (paperback)
0773545824 (paperback)
9780773597488
9780773597495

Subject:

Environmental policy Canada History 20th century.
Environmental policy Canada History 21st century.
Environnement Politique gouvernementale Canada Histoire 20e siècle.
Environnement Politique gouvernementale Canada Histoire 21e siècle.
Environmental policy
Canada

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Auld, Graeme, author.
Stoney, Christopher, author.
Carleton library series ; 234.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308329
Call No.: BIB 253750
Status: Available