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Index
Cover page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Tables
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Key Questions and Issues
The Double Dynamic
The Political-Institutional Analysis of Environmental Policy
The Rise and Fall and Rise of the DOE
1 The Department of the Environment: A ‘House Divided’
Trudeau and the ‘Mandate Debates’
Statutory Capacity
Campaigning to Get Out: Fisheries, Forestry, and the Parks Swap
The Environmental Conserver and Protector Roles: Resource-Use Planning versus Regulation?
The Atmospheric Environment Service: From Service Provider to Global Researcher
Conclusions
2 Ministers, Mandarins, and the Green Agenda
Jack Davis and the Engineer
Blair Seaborn and the Liberal Group of Six
Early Conservative Ministers: Nowhere to Go But Up
Lucien Bouchard and the Green Plan Ministers
Departmental Planning and Learning
The Department and the Green Plan
Conclusions
3 The DOE and the Ottawa System
Searching for Central Support
Budgetary Battles
Other Departments
Scientific and Policy Knowledge as a Base of Influence
The Green Plan and the Ottawa System
Conclusions
4 Environmental Federalism and Spatial Realities
Water Pollution and Management: Conflict and Cooperation
Air Pollution: Institutionalized Cooperation
Managing General Environmental Federalism
Environmental Accords: The Need for Practical Bilateralism
The Provinces and the Green Plan
Conclusions
5 The Elusive Constituency: ENGOs, Business, and the Public
The ENGOs and the DOE: Reluctant Allies
Business and the DOE: From Inner Table to Round Table
Business-ENGO Convergence: New Maturity or New Battles?
Public Opinion: The Villain Is Us?
The Green Plan, the ENGOs, and Business
Conclusions
6 International Environmental Relations
Bilateral Relations and the Great Lakes Agreement
The United States as Environmental Hero and Villain
Multilateral Relations: Towards the ‘30 Per Cent Club’
The New Political Economy of Protocol Setting
From Stockholm to Rio: Environmental Paradigms and International Agendas
The Clinton Administration and the Greening of GATT and NAFTA
Conclusions
7 Acid Rain
Getting and Staying on the Agenda
Bilateral Stalemate and Reagan-Style Hardball Politics
Domestic Breakthrough
U.S. Action at Last
Conclusions
8 The Parks Service and the South Moresby Decision
The Parks Service as Reluctant Environmental Recruit
Protection versus Use, and Old Parks versus New
Getting South Moresby on the Agenda: From Local to National Politics
From Political Theatre to Environmental Bargaining
Planning and Pouncing
Conclusions
9 Environmental Assessment and the Quest for Legislation
Early Caution and the Avoidance of U.S. Excess
Public Involvement and the 1977 Reforms
The Guidelines Order and Its Aftermath
The Rafferty-Alameda and Oldman River Court Cases and Bill C-13
Conclusions
10 Legislative Catch-up: From Fish to Toxics to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act
Traditional Regulation and Early Agenda Choices
Toxics and the Environmental Contaminants Act
Fish Wars: The 1977 Fisheries Act Amendments
The ‘Toxic Blob’ and the CEPA Process
CEPA and Equivalency Agreements: The Rough Road to the New Millennium
Conclusions
11 Conclusions
Federal Environmental-Agenda Setting
Environmental Successes and Failures
Political Parties, Key Institutions, and Future Decision Making
Sustainable Development as a Latent Policy Paradigm
Greening, Economic Competitiveness, and Business Power
Communicating a Green Public Philosophy and Canadian Unity
The Double-Dynamic Framework and Environmental-Policy Analysis
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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