The Integrity Gap: Canada's Environmental Policy and Institutions - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 077480985X ISBN 13: 9780774809856

Verlag: University of British Columbia Press, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

This thoughtful collection exposes the gap between rhetoric andperformance in Canada's response to environmental challenges.Canadians, despite their national penchant for environmentaldiscussion, have fallen behind their G-8 peers in both domesticcommitments and international actions. In a cogent examination of theissue, eight authors demonstrate how Canada's configuration ofpolitical and economic institutions has limited effective environmentalpolicy. Canadian environmental institutions, the authors argue, haveproduced an integrity gap: the sustainability rhetoric adopted bypolicymakers fails to achieve concrete results. In an analysis thatpenetrates several policy domains and combines various disciplinary,sectoral, and geographic perspectives, the authors demonstrate howCanada fell from leader to laggard within the internationalenvironmental community.

Placing the study of Canadian environmental policy within a soundtheoretical framework for the first time, this book makes a significantcontribution to existing policy scholarship. It will find anenthusiastic audience among political scientists, neo-institutionaltheorists, policy analysts, and students at both undergraduate andgraduate levels.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Eugene Lee is a member of the Department of PoliticalScience, Sookmyung Women's University, Korea. AnthonyPerl is in the Department of Political Science, University ofCalgary.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 077480985X
• ISBN 13: 9780774809856
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
• Herausgeber: Perl Anthony, Lee Eugene
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