Canadian Natural Resource and Environmental Policy, 2nd ed.

Political Economy and Public Policy

By Melody Hessing, Michael Howlett, and Tracy Summerville
Categories: Political Science, Environmental & Nature Studies, Environmental Politics & Policy, Natural Resources
Publisher: UBC Press
Paperback : 9780774811811, 382 pages, May 2005
Hardcover : 9780774811880, 382 pages, May 2005
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774840989, 382 pages, November 2011
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774851459, 382 pages, October 2007

Table of contents

Figures and Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part 1: Introduction

1 Canadian Natural Resource and Environmental Policy: Issues and Approaches

Part 2: The Context(s) of Canadian Natural Resource and Environmental Policy

2 The Socioeconomic Context: Canadian Resource Industries and the Postwar Canadian Political Economy

3 The Institutional Context: The Canadian Constitution, Aboriginal Rights, and International Agreements Affecting Resources and the Environment

Part 3: Analyzing Natural Resource and Environmental Policy

4 The Resource and Environmental Policy Process: An Analytical Framework

Part 4: The Canadian Natural Resource and Environmental Policy Process

5 Agenda Setting: The Role of the Public in Resource and Environmental Policy Formation

6 Policy Formulation: Identifying the Canadian Resource and Environmental Policy Subsystem

7 Decision Making: The Politics of Canadian Resource and Environmental Policy

8 Policy Implementation: The Administration of Canadian Resource and Environmental Policy

9 Policy Evaluation: The Political, Administrative, and Judicial Assessment of Canadian Resource and Environmental Policy

10 Conclusion: The Future of the Canadian Resource and Environmental Policy Paradigm

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Description

This book provides an analytic framework from which the foundation of ideological perspectives, administrative structures, and substantive issues are explored. Departing from traditional approaches that emphasize a single discipline or perspective, it offers an interdisciplinary framework with which to think through ecological, political, economic, and social issues. It also provides a multi-stage analysis of policy making from agenda setting through the evaluation process. The integration of social science perspectives and the combination of theoretical and empirical work make this innovative book one of the most comprehensive analyses of Canadian natural resource and environmental policy to date.

Reviews

An excellent book … accessible, well written and well researched. It provides a first-rate introduction to the dilemmas and controversies surrounding Canadian natural resource and environmental policy and as such it will facilitate discussion in the classroom and encourage students to think about the issues.

- Heather A. Smith

Praise for the 1st edition

An excellent book … accessible, well written and well researched. It provides a first-rate introduction to the dilemmas and controversies surrounding Canadian natural resource and environmental policy and as such it will facilitate discussion in the classroom and encourage students to think about the issues.

- Heather A. Smith

A useful addition … [There is a] paucity of readable and perceptive political science in this field … [this book] crackle[s] with interesting ideas and testable hypotheses.

- Canadian Public Policy