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Green-lite

Complexity in Fifty Years of Canadian Environmental Policy, Governance, and Democracy

by (author) G. Bruce Doern, Graeme Auld & Christopher Stoney

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2015
Category
Environmental Policy
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773545816
    Publish Date
    Oct 2015
    List Price
    $110.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780773545823
    Publish Date
    Oct 2015
    List Price
    $40.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773597495
    Publish Date
    Nov 2015
    List Price
    $100.00

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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 NGOs 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 their pollution harms and risks.

About the authors

G. Bruce Doern is a professor emeritus in the School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University. He is the author and co-author of numerous books on Canadian politics and policy, including Faith and Fear: The Free Trade Story, with Brian Tomlin, and Canadian Public Policy: Ideas, Structure, Process, with Richard Phidd.

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Graeme Auld is associate professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University.

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Christopher Stoney is associate professor, School of Public Policy and Administration and director of the Centre for Urban Research and Education at Carleton University.

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