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Green-lite : complexity in fifty years of Canadian environmental policy, governance, and democracy
\"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.
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Natural Allies
No two nations have exchanged natural resources, produced
transborder environmental agreements, or cooperatively altered
ecosystems on the same scale as Canada and the United States.
Environmental and energy diplomacy have profoundly shaped both
countries' economies, politics, and landscapes for over 150 years.
Natural Allies looks at the history of US-Canada relations
through an environmental lens. From fisheries in the late
nineteenth century to oil pipelines in the twenty-first century,
Daniel Macfarlane recounts the scores of transborder environmental
and energy arrangements made between the two nations. Many became
global precedents that influenced international environmental law,
governance, and politics, including the Boundary Waters Treaty, the
Trail Smelter case, hydroelectric megaprojects, and the Great Lakes
Water Quality Agreements. In addition to water, fish, wood,
minerals, and myriad other resources, Natural Allies details the
history of the continental energy relationship - from electricity
to uranium to fossil fuels -showing how Canada became vital to
American strategic interests and, along with the United States, a
major international energy power and petro-state. Environmental and
energy relations facilitated the integration and prosperity of
Canada and the United States but also made these countries
responsible for the current climate crisis and other unsustainable
forms of ecological degradation. Looking to the future, Natural
Allies argues that the concept of national security must be
widened to include natural security - a commitment to public,
national, and international safety from environmental harms,
especially those caused by human actions.
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Canadians and the natural environment to the twenty-first century
\"Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century provides an ideal foundation for undergraduates and general readers on the history of Canada's complex environmental issues. Through clear, easy-to-understand case studies, Neil Forkey integrates the ongoing interplay of humans and the natural world into national, continental, and global contexts. Forkey's engaging survey addresses significant episodes from across the country over the past four hundred years: the classification of Canada's environments by its earliest inhabitants, the relationship between science and sentiment in the Victorian era, the shift towards conservation and preservation of resources in the early twentieth century, and the rise of environmentalism and issues involving First Nations at the end of the century. Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century provides an accessible synthesis of the most important recent work in the field, making it a truly state-of-the-art contribution to Canadian environmental history.\"--publisher's website.
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From the 'old' to the 'new' policy design: design thinking beyond markets and collaborative governance
Policy design as a field of inquiry in policy studies has had a chequered history. After a promising beginning in the 1970s and 1980s, the field languished in the 1990s and 2000s as work in the policy sciences focused on the impact on policy outcomes of metachanges in society and the international environment. Both globalization and governance studies of the period ignored traditional design concerns in arguing that changes at this level predetermined policy specifications and promoted the use of market and collaborative governance (network) instruments. However, more recent work re-asserting the role of governments both at the international and domestic levels has revitalized design studies. This special issue focuses on recent efforts in the policy sciences to reinvent, or more properly, 're-discover' the policy design orientation in light of these developments. Articles in the issue address leading edge issues such as the nature of design thinking and expertise in a policy context, the temporal aspects of policy designs, the role of experimental designs, the question of policy mixes, the issue of design flexibility and resilience and the criteria for assessing superior designs. Evidence and case studies deal with design contexts and processes in Canada, China, Singapore, the UK, EU, Australia and elsewhere. Such detailed case studies are necessary for policy design studies to advance beyond some of the strictures placed in their way by the reification of, and over-emphasis upon, only a few of the many possible kinds of policy designs identified by the 1990s and early 2000s literature.
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Canada Among Nations, 2006
Contributors include Marie Bernard-Meunier (Atlantik Brücke), David Black (Dalhousie), Adam Chapnick (Toronto), Ann Denholm Crosby (York), Roy Culpeper (The North-South Institute), Christina Gabriel (Carleton), John Kirton (Toronto), Wenran Jiang (Alberta), David Malone (Foreign Affairs Canada), Nelson Michaud (École nationale d'administration publique), Isidro Morales (School for International Service), Christopher Sands (Center for Strategic and International Studies), Daniel Schwanen (The Centre for International Governance Innovation), Yasmine Shamsie (Wilfrid Laurier), Elinor Sloan (Carleton), Andrew F. Cooper (The Centre for International Governance Innovation), and Dane Rowlands (The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs)
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Health Advocacy, Inc
In this unsettling analysis of the breast cancer movement in Canada, health activist, scholar, award-winning journalist, and cancer survivor Sharon Batt investigates the changing relationship between patient advocacy groups and the pharmaceutical industry, as well as the contentious role of pharma funding.
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Scents of Place: The Dysplacement of a First Nations Community in Canada
Here I explore how the experience of place at a First Nations reserve in Ontario, located in the middle of Canada's \"Chemical Valley,\" is disrupted by the extraordinary levels of pollution found there, in so doing, I give special attention to air pollution and residents' responses to associated odors— that is, to the sense of smell. Focusing on a unique feature of smell— that it operates primarily through indexicality— I draw on S. Peirce's semiotic framework to highlight ways in which perception of odors entails embodiment of the perceived substance, thus connecting self and surroundings in profound and transformative ways. Ultimately, I argue that the local smellscape, while having reinforced a sense of positive emplacement on the reserve in the past, is now, because of the constant presence of toxic fumes, instilling in residents a profound sense of alienation from the ancestral landscape— a condition I call \"dysplacement.\" Dans une réserve aborigène de l'Ontario, située au sein de la \"Vallée Chimique\" canadienne, les taux de pollution extrêmement élevés perturbent la façon dont le lieu et l'espace sont vécus par les résidents. Il nous convient d'examiner de près la pollution de l'air dans cette région, ainsi que les réactions des habitants aux odeurs qui en résultent. En effet, l'olfaction est devenue sens dominant par lequel ils vivent leur rapport avec le lieu. Nous évoquons ici la sémiotique de Peirce, qui nous permet de mettre en relief un aspect singulier de l'olfaction, son indexicalité, à travers laquelle la substance sensible s'incarne, au sens littéral du terme, conduisant ainsi à la liaison intime et transformatrice du sujet à son environnement. Le paysage olfactif de ce lieu, qui naguère avait renforcé un rapport positif avec la réserve, entraîne de nos jours l'aliénation du territoire ancestral, ce que j'appelle un processus de dysplacement.
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Economic policy and public health: Insights from the history of the Canadian Journal of Public Health
The nearly 115-year history of the
Canadian Journal of Public Health
(CJPH) provides an important opportunity to reflect on and learn from our past. In response to an invitation to members of the CJPH Editorial Board to curate historical articles around a theme, we undertook a historical examination of our field’s engagement, as gleaned through the pages of CJPH, with economic policy. This was inspired by the now well-established connections among political economic policy, population well-being, and health equity. Our analysis of six historical volumes (1917, 1933, 1941, 1961, 1995, and 2013) led to three key findings. First, we found only a slim historical foundation for public health engagement with the economy overall. Second, we observed a strong and seemingly subconscious allegiance to dominant economic paradigms, despite their incompatibility with root causes of health inequities. Third, even though socio-economic inequalities in health are a long-standing preoccupation of CJPH authors, those inequalities are consistently and curiously divorced from their roots in political economic systems. Our findings provide a historical foundation for thinking about how our public health community could be encouraged to engage constructively towards an economic system that supports, rather than obstructs, population well-being and health equity.
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The Enduring Impact of the American Dust Bowl: Short- and Long-Run Adjustments to Environmental Catastrophe
The 1930s American Dust Bowl was an environmental catastrophe that greatly eroded sections of the Plains. The Dust Bowl is estimated to have immediately, substantially, and persistently reduced agricultural land values and revenues in more-eroded counties relative to less-eroded counties. During the Depression and through at least the 1950s, there was limited relative adjustment of farmland away from activities that became relatively less productive in more-eroded areas. Agricultural adjustments recovered less than 25 percent of the initial difference in agricultural costs for more-eroded counties. The economy adjusted predominantly through large relative population declines in more-eroded counties, both during the 1930s and through the 1950s.
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