The integrity gap : Canada's environmental policy and institutions / edited by Eugene Lee and Anthony Perl.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lee, Eugene E., 1924-

Perl, Anthony, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy--Canada.

Environmental policy.

Political planning--Canada.

Political planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 289 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver, B.C. : University of British Columbia Press ; London : Eurospan, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This thoughtful collection exposes the gap between rhetoric and performance in Canada's response to environmental challenges. Canadians, despite their national penchant for environmental discussion, have fallen behind their G-8 peers in both domestic commitments and international actions. In a cogent examination of the issue, eight authors demonstrate how Canada's configuration of political and economic institutions has limited effective environmental policy. Canadian environmental institutions, the authors argue, have produced an integrity gap: the sustainability rhetoric adopted by policymakers fails to achieve concrete results. In an analysis that penetrates several policy domains and combines various disciplinary, sectoral, and geographic perspectives, the authors demonstrate how Canada fell from leader to laggard within the international environmental community. Placing the study of Canadian environmental policy within a sound theoretical framework for the first time, this book makes a significant contribution to existing policy scholarship. It will find an enthusiastic audience among political scientists, neo-institutional theorists, policy analysts, and students at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

Contents:

Contents; Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; The Integrity Gap; 1 Introduction: Institutions and the Integrity Gap in Canadian Environmental Policy; 2 How Canada's Stumbles with Environmental Risk Management Reflect an Integrity Gap; 3 Canadian Environmental Policy and the Natural Resource Sector: Paradoxical Aspects of the Transition to a Post- Staples Political Economy; 4 International Institutions and the Framing of Canada's Climate Change Policy: Mitigating or Masking the Integrity Gap?; 5 Energy Mixes and Future Scenarios: The Nuclear Option Deconstructed

6 Participatory Management and Sustainability: Evolving Policy and Practice in a Mountain Environment; 7 Policy Communities and Environmental Policy Integrity: A Tale of Two Canadian Urban Air Quality Initiatives; 8 Integrity of Land-Use and Transportation Planning in the Greater Toronto Area; 9 Toronto's Exhibition Place: Closing the Integrity Gap between a Nineteenth-Century Fairground and a Sustainable Twenty- First- Century City; 10 Conclusion; Notes on Contributors; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-283-13096-3

9786613130969

0-7748-5055-8

OCLC:

923440497