Description
Book SynopsisCanadian environmental law is a dynamic and exciting area that is playing an increasingly important role in furthering sustainable development policy. Environmental law has distinctive relevant principles, operating procedures, implications, and importance in comparison with other areas of law, and these distinctions must be appreciated both within the legal community and by all those who are concerned with the way that courts handle environmental cases.
Environment in the Courtroom provides extensive insight into Canadian environmental law. Covering key environmental concepts and the unique nature of environmental damage, environmental prosecutions, sentencing and environmental offences, evidentiary issues in environmental processes and hearings, issues associated with site inspections, investigations, and enforcement, and more, this collection has the potential to make make a significant difference at the level of understanding and practice.
Containing perspective and insight from experienced and prominence Canadian legal practitioners and scholars, Environment in the Courtroom addresses the Canadian provinces and territories and provides context by comparison to the United States and Australia. No other collection covers these topics so comprehensively. This is an essential reference for all those interested in Canadian environmental law.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
List of Figures
- Introduction
- In the Shadow of the Green Giants:
Environmentalism and Civic Engagement
Jonathan Clapperton and Liza Piper
- Process and Possibilities
- Strategies for Survival:
First Nations Encounters with Environmentalism
Anna J. Willow
- Native/Non-Native Alliances:
Challenging Fossil Fuel Industry Shipping at Pacific Northwest Ports
Zoltán Grossman
- Conserving Contested Ground:
Sovereignty–Driven Stewardship by the White Mountain Apache tribe and the Fort Apache Heritage Foundation
John R. Welch
- From Southern Alberta to Northern Brazil:
Indigenous Conservation and the Preservation of Cultural Resources
Sterling Evans
- Parks For and By the People:
Acknowledging Ordinary People in the Formation, Protection, and Use of State and Provincial Parks
Jessica M. DeWitt
- Histories
- Alternatives:
Environmental and Indigenous Activism in the 1970s
Liza Piper
- Marmion Lake Generating Station:
Another Northern Scandal?
Tobasonakwut Peter Kinew
- Environmental Activism as Anti–Conquest:
The Nuu–chch–nulth and Environmentalists in the Contact Zone of Clayoquot Sound
Jonathan Clapperton
- Local Economic Independence as Environmentalism:
Nova Scotia in the 1970s
Mark Leeming
- "Not an Easy Thing to Implement":
The Conservation Council of New Brunswick and Environmental Organization in a Resource–Dependent Province, 1969–1983
Mark J. McLaughlin
- The Ebb and Flow of Local Environmental Activism:
The Society for Pollution and Environmental Control (SPEC), British Columbia
Jonathan Clapperton
- From Social Movement to Environmental Behemoth:
How Greenpeace Got Big
Frank Zelko
- Afterward
- Lessons and Directions from the Ground Up
Jonathan Clapperton and Liza Piper
- Bibliography
Index
