Innovation, Science, Environment 08/09

Canadian Policies and Performance, 2008-2009

Glen Toner

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN: 9780773533950
• eBook ISBN: 9780773577749
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Rapidly developing changes in technology, scientific knowledge, and domestic and international environmental issues force analysts to constantly reevaluate how public policy is coping. Are governments leading, following, or falling behind other societal actors? This third volume in a series of annual assessments of Canadian public policy provides an innovative approach to evaluating key developments in one of the most challenging areas of public policy in the twenty-first century. Leading experts look at crucial issues such as climate change, sustainable development policy tools, science management, and the international approach to governing intellectual property. They address recent developments within the pesticide, wildlife, and infrastructure policy areas involving the federal government and key private and non-governmental players. The 2008-09 volume explores the role of governments in a number of key areas, showing that while government institutions and policies should be part of the solution to the complex array of science and technology and environment and development issues facing Canadians, too often it appears they are part of the problem. Contributors include Glen Toner (Carleton), Robert Paehlke (Trent), Mark Jaccard and Rose Murphy (Simon Fraser), Jac van Beek (Canada Foundation for Innovation) and Frances Issaacs (National Research Council of Canada), Sara Bannerman (Carleton), Robert Gibson (Waterloo), David Robinson (Laurentian), Francois Bregha (Stratos Inc.), Scott Findlay and Annick Dezeil (Ottawa), Robert Hilton and Christopher Stoney (Carleton), and Jeremy Wilson (Victoria)."

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• 1 The Harper Minority Government and ISE: Second Year — Second Thoughts
• 2 Missing the Opportunity: A Decade of Sustainable Development Strategies
• 3 Making a Better World, One Undertaking at a Time: Sustainability Assessment and Innovative Decision Making in Canada
• 4 Why Smart Growth Isn’t Working: An Examination of Ottawa’s Failure to Deliver Sustainable Urban Transit
• 5 The Social Foundations for Sustainability: Carbon, Creativity, and the Failure of Canadian Forestry Strategy
• 6 Sticks, Carrots, and Sermons (and Workshops, too): Environment Canada and Calls for a Robust Bird Conservation Toolkit
• 7 Uncertainty, Precaution, and Adaptive Management in Canadian Pesticide Regulation
• 8 Geological Carbon Storage: The Roles of Government and Industry in Risk Management
• 9 Climate Change and Canada: Beyond Tomorrow
• 10 The Development Agenda at WIPO: Where Is Canada?
• 11 Convergence and Science Management
• Contributors