Environmental conflict and democracy in Canada / edited by Laurie E. Adkin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adkin, Laurie E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental protection--Canada--Citizen participation.

Environmental protection.

Environmental policy--Canada--Citizen participation.

Environmental policy.

Human ecology--Canada.

Human ecology.

Environmental policy--Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (388 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The urgent need to resolve conflicts over forests, fisheries, farming practices, urban sprawl, and greenhouse-gas reductions, among many others, calls for a critical rethinking of the nature of our democracy and citizenship. This work aims to move the ideas of green democracy and ecological citizenship from the margins to the centre of discussion and debate in Canada. Environmental Conflict and Democracy in Canada offers sixteen case studies to demonstrate that environmental conflicts are always about our rights and responsibilities as citizens as well as the quality of our democratic institutions. By bringing together environmental politics and democratic theory, this path-breaking collection charts a new course for research and activism, one that reveals the deficits of citizenship and how democracy must be extended to achieve a socially just, ecologically sustainable society.

Contents:

Ecology, citizenship, democracy / Laurie E. Adkin

Unsatisfactory democracy : conflict over Monsanto's genetically engineered wheat / Peter Andreþ and Lucy Sharratt

Regulating farm pollution in Quebec : environmentalists and the Union des producteurs agricoles contest the meaning of sustainable development / Nathalie Berny, Raymond Hudon, and Maxime Ouellet

Modern enclosure : salmon aquaculture and first nations resistance in British Columbia / Donna Harrison

Fisheries privatization versus community-based management in Nova Scotia : emerging alliances between first nations and non-native fishers / Martha Stiegman

First nations, ENGOs, and Ontario's Lands for Life consultation process / Patricia Ballamingie

Participation, information, and forest conflict in the Slocan Valley of British Columbia / Darren R. Bardati

The limits of integrated resource management in Alberta for aboriginal and environmental groups : the Northern East Slopes Sustainable Resource and Environmental Management Strategy / Colette Fluet and Naomi Krogman

Environmental conflict and democracy in Bella Coola : political ecology on the margins of industria / William T. Hipwell

Privatization, deregulation, and environmental protection : the case of provincial parks in Newfoundland and Labrador / James Overton

Managing conflict in Alberta : the case of forest certification and citizen committees / John R. Parkins

Beyond the reach of democracy? The university and institutional citizenship / Jason Found and R. Michael M'Gonigle

The myth of citizen participation : waste management in the Fundy region of New Brunswick / Susan W. Lee

Neo-liberalism, water, and first nations / Michael Mascarenhas

Contesting development, democracy, and justice in the Red Hill Valley / Jane Mulkewich and Richard Oddie

Instant gentrification : social inequality and brownfields redevelopment in downtown Toronto / Cheryl Teelucksingh

Taking a stand in exurbia : environmental movements to preserve nature and resist sprawl / Gerda R. Wekerle, L. Anders Sandberg, and Liette Gilbert

Democracy from the trenches : environmental conflicts and ecological citizenship / Laurie E. Adkin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [320]-353) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-74052-0

9786612740527

0-7748-1604-X

OCLC:

747432788