Canadian environmental policy: Context and cases

Focuses specifically on environmental policy – the character and significance of the politics which underlie policy-making on the environment in Canada.

Part One sets the context for environmental policy-making in Canada, including studies of the legal, instrumental, institutional, and jurisdictional factors that determine policy. These essays consider the environmental movement, business’ response to environmentalism, Aboriginal peoples and the environment, and aspects of the various levels of government.

Part Two consists of specific case studies involving environmental policy, including smog, global climate change, the ‘new biotechnology’ of genetic engineering and its potential environmental impacts, agricultural pollution, endangered species, and remote resource-rich areas.

Provides insight into the competing interests that act on policy including: federal; interdepartmental industry; environmentalist; First Nations; and international.
There is a balance between the domestic context, for example, trends in federal-provincial relations, legislative controversies, and interest group activities and the global context, for example, Canada-US relations, trade agreements, international negotiations.
There is an appendix that provides selected bibliographies for environmental issues which can be useful for students to use as starting points for research papers.