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Book SynopsisThis path-breaking collection brings together environmental politics and democratic theory to reveal the deficits of citizenship and how democracy must be extended to achieve a socially just, ecologically sustainable society in Canada.
Trade ReviewIn a review of three recent books on environmental policy, including Environmental Conflict and Democracy in Canada, Graeme Auld, Carleton University, School of Public Policy and Administration, says: "Taken together, these volumes are an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the complex challenges environmental problems, new and old, present, even in advanced industrial countries. * Review of Policy Research, Vol 28, Issue 1 *
Table of ContentsPreface / Laurie E. Adkin
1 Ecology, Citizenship, Democracy / Laurie E. Adkin
2 Unsatisfactory Democracy: Conflict over Monsanto’s Genetically Engineered Wheat / Peter Andrée and Lucy Sharratt
3 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
4 Modern Enclosure: Salmon Aquaculture and First Nations Resistance in British Columbia / Donna Harrison
5 Fisheries Privatization versus Community-Based Management in Nova Scotia: Emerging Alliances between First Nations and Non-Native Fishers / Martha Stiegman
6 First Nations, ENGOs, and Ontario’s Lands for Life Consultation Process / Patricia Ballamingie
7 Participation, Information, and Forest Conflict in the Slocan Valley of British Columbia / Darren R. Bardati
8 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
9 Environmental Conflict and Democracy in Bella Coola: Political Ecology on the Margins of Industria / William T. Hipwell
10 Privatization, Deregulation, and Environmental Protection: The Case of Provincial Parks in Newfoundland and Labrador / Jim Overton
11 Managing Conflict in Alberta: The Case of Forest Certification and Citizen Committees / John R. Parkins
12 Beyond the Reach of Democracy? The University and Institutional Citizenship / Jason Found and R. Michael M’Gonigle
13 The Myth of Citizen Participation: Waste Management in the Fundy Region of New Brunswick / Susan W. Lee
14 Neo-liberalism, Water, and First Nations / Michael Mascarenhas
15 Contesting Development, Democracy, and Justice in the Red Hill Valley / Jane Mulkewich and Richard Oddie
16 Instant Gentrification: Social Inequality and Brownfields Redevelopment in Downtown Toronto / Cheryl Teelucksingh
17 Taking a Stand in Exurbia: Environmental Movements to Preserve Nature and Resist Sprawl / Gerda R. Wekerle, L. Anders Sandberg, and Liette Gilbert
18 Democracy from the Trenches: Environmental Conflicts and Ecological Citizenship / Laurie E. Adkin
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