Description
Book SynopsisThis thoughtful collection exposes the gap between rhetoric and performance in Canada’s response to environmental challenges.
Trade ReviewA useful matrix in the introductory chapter identifies the institutional constraints that prevent Canadian governments delivering stated environmental goals ... The case studies offer useful support for this hypothesis. -- Tony Jackson, University of Dundee * British Journal of Canadian Studies, 12 November 2005 *
Table of ContentsFigures and Tables
Acknowledgments
1. Institutions and the Integrity Gap in Canadian EnvironmentalPolicy / Eugene Lee and Anthony Perl
2. How Canada's Stumbles with Environmental Risk ManagementReflect an Integrity Gap / William Leiss
3. Canadian Environmental Policy and the Natural Resource Sector:Paradoxical Aspects of the Transition to a Post-Staples PoliticalEconomy / Michael Howlett
4. International Institutions and the Framing of Canada'sClimate Change Policy: Mitigating or Masking the Integrity Gap? /Steven Bernstein
5. Energy Mixes and Future Scenarios: The Nuclear OptionDeconstructed / Michael D. Mehta
6. Participatory Management and Sustainability: Evolving Policy andPractice in a Mountain Environment / Fikret Berkes, Jay Anderson,Colin Duffield, J.S. Gardner, A.J. Sinclair, and Greg Stevens
7. Policy Communities and Environmental Policy Integrity: A Tale ofTwo Canadian Urban Air Quality Initiatives / Anthony Perl
8. Integrity of Land-Use and Transportation Planning in the GreaterToronto Area / Richard Gilbert
9. Toronto's Exhibition Place: Closing the Integrity Gap betweena Nineteenth-Century Fairground and a Sustainable Twenty-First-CenturyCity / David Gurin
10. Conclusion / Anthony Perl and Eugene Lee
Notes on Contributors
Index
