Pipe dreaming : federalism and northern environmental policy
The Canadian North poses a clear illustration of the struggle for sustainable development in a context of advanced capitalism. How do northern political institutions and electoral incentives impact the relationships between federal, territorial and aboriginal governments in the field of environmenta...
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| Language: | English |
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University of British Columbia
2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/24217 |
| Summary: | The Canadian North poses a clear illustration of the struggle for sustainable development
in a context of advanced capitalism. How do northern political institutions and electoral
incentives impact the relationships between federal, territorial and aboriginal
governments in the field of environmental policy and the prospects of environmental
protection? This paper will argue that negotiations for the devolution of resources and
environmental activities with low economic significance have borne substantially more
fruit, more quickly, than the sticky issues of non-renewable resource exploitation and
impact assessment. Case work of select northern environmental policy suggests that the
public interest eithe favours utilization of northern resources for economic development
or is insufficiently green to overcome collective action problems beyond symbolic
commitments to environmental protection. |
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