Environmental Politics in Canada: Managing the Commons into the Twenty-First Century - Softcover

McKenzie, Judith I.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195415086 ISBN 13: 9780195415087

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2001

Synopsis

This is the only book to give background on environmental thought in both a Canadian and world context. It is designed as an introduction to environmental politics and policy, with Canada as its primary focus. Including focus boxes and end-of-chapter study questions, it is appropriate for a wide range of students, as well as scholars.

About this title

About the Author

Prior to attending graduate school at the University of Toronto, McKenzie practised for eight years as an urban planner in both the public (municipal and provincial) sector and private sector. This practical experience has informed McKenzie's work as an academic writing in the field of
environmental politics.

Review

"Environmental Politics in Canada, which has been designed as an undergraduate course text, poses a number of important questions in the book's preface including: Why are governments reluctant to legislate on behalf of the environment? Why have some groups and individuals been listened to at
the expense of others? In attempting to answer these questions, Judith McKenzie seeks to explain the roots of natural resources and environmental mismanagement by reference to the domination of liberal economic and political thought over the greener political visions. In this ideational context, she
argues, environmental groups have been unable to wrest control of the politival agenda from economic interests, often with regrettable results in terms of the environment and public health."

--Debora L. Vannijnatten (Wilfrid Laurier University), Canadian Journal of Political Science, issue 36:3

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0195415086
• ISBN 13: 9780195415087
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 336