Title: The integrity gap : Canada's environmental policy and institutions /
Authors: Lee, Eugene E., 1924-; Perl, Anthony, 1962-
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Environmental policy Canada
Abstract: "In a cogent examination of Canada's environmental policy performance, The Integrity Gap demonstrates how Canada's configuration of political and economic institutions has limited environmental policy effectiveness. Canadian environmental institutions, the authors argue, have produced an integrity gap, where the sustainability rhetoric adopted by policy makers fails to achieve concrete results. In an analysis that penetrates several policy domains and combines various disciplinary, sectoral, and geographical perspectives, the authors effectively demonstrate how Canada fell from leader to laggard within the international environmental community during the 1990s." "This book makes a significant contribution to existing policy scholarship, placing the study of Canadian environmental policy within an institutional framework of analysis. It will find an enthusiastic audience among political scientists, policy analysts, environmental specialists, urban and regional planners, and students at both undergraduate and graduate levels."--Jacket.
Contents: Introduction : institutions and the integrity gap in Canadian environmental policy / Eugene Lee and Anthony Perl -- How Canada's stumbles with environmental risk management reflect an integrity gap / William Leiss -- Canadian environmental policy and the natural resource sector : paradoxical aspects of the transition to a post-staples political economy / Michael Howlett -- International institutions and the framing of Canada's climate change policy : mitigating or masking the integrity gap? / Steven Bernstein -- Energy mixes and future scenarios : the nuclear option deconstructed / Michael D. Mehta -- Participatory management and sustainability : evolving policy and practice in a mountain environment / Fikret Berkes ... [et al.] -- Policy communities and environmental policy integrity : a tale of two Canadian urban air quality initiatives / Anthony Perl -- Integrity of land-use and transportation planning in the Greater Toronto area / Richard Gilbert -- Toronto's Exhibition Place : closing the integrity gap between a nineteenth-century fairground and a sustainable twenty-thirst century city / David Gurin.