Overview

The urgent need to resolve conflicts over forests, fisheries, farming practices, urban sprawl, and greenhouse-gas reductions, among many others, calls for a critical rethinking of the nature of our democracy and citizenship. This work aims to move the ideas of green democracy and ecological citizenship from the margins to the centre of discussion and debate in Canada. Environmental Conflict and Democracy in Canada offers sixteen case studies to demonstrate that environmental conflicts are always about our rights and responsibilities as citizens as well as the quality of our democratic institutions. By bringing together environmental politics and democratic theory, this path-breaking collection charts a new course for research and activism, one that reveals the deficits of citizenship and how democracy must be extended to achieve a socially just, ecologically sustainable society.

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Author:   Laurie E. Adkin
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
Imprint:   University of British Columbia Press
Weight:   0.700kg
ISBN:  

9780774816021

ISBN 10:   0774816023
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   11 May 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Adult education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface / Laurie E. Adkin 1 Ecology, Citizenship, Democracy / Laurie E. Adkin 2 Unsatisfactory Democracy: Conflict over Monsanto’s Genetically Engineered Wheat / Peter Andrée and Lucy Sharratt 3 Regulating Farm Pollution in Quebec: Environmentalists and the Union des producteurs agricoles Contest the Meaning of Sustainable Development / Nathalie Berny, Raymond Hudon, and Maxime Ouellet 4 Modern Enclosure: Salmon Aquaculture and First Nations Resistance in British Columbia / Donna Harrison 5 Fisheries Privatization versus Community-Based Management in Nova Scotia: Emerging Alliances between First Nations and Non-Native Fishers / Martha Stiegman 6 First Nations, ENGOs, and Ontario’s Lands for Life Consultation Process / Patricia Ballamingie 7 Participation, Information, and Forest Conflict in the Slocan Valley of British Columbia / Darren R. Bardati 8 The Limits of Integrated Resource Management in Alberta for Aboriginal and Environmental Groups: The Northern East Slopes Sustainable Resource and Environmental Management Strategy / Colette Fluet and Naomi Krogman 9 Environmental Conflict and Democracy in Bella Coola: Political Ecology on the Margins of Industria / William T. Hipwell 10 Privatization, Deregulation, and Environmental Protection: The Case of Provincial Parks in Newfoundland and Labrador / Jim Overton 11 Managing Conflict in Alberta: The Case of Forest Certification and Citizen Committees / John R. Parkins 12 Beyond the Reach of Democracy? The University and Institutional Citizenship / Jason Found and R. Michael M’Gonigle 13 The Myth of Citizen Participation: Waste Management in the Fundy Region of New Brunswick / Susan W. Lee 14 Neo-liberalism, Water, and First Nations / Michael Mascarenhas 15 Contesting Development, Democracy, and Justice in the Red Hill Valley / Jane Mulkewich and Richard Oddie 16 Instant Gentrification: Social Inequality and Brownfields Redevelopment in Downtown Toronto / Cheryl Teelucksingh 17 Taking a Stand in Exurbia: Environmental Movements to Preserve Nature and Resist Sprawl / Gerda R. Wekerle, L. Anders Sandberg, and Liette Gilbert 18 Democracy from the Trenches: Environmental Conflicts and Ecological Citizenship / Laurie E. Adkin References Index

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"In a review of three recent books on environmental policy, including Environmental Conflict and Democracy in Canada, Graeme Auld, Carleton University, School of Public Policy and Administration, says: ""Taken together, these volumes are an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the complex challenges environmental problems, new and old, present, even in advanced industrial countries. * Review of Policy Research, Vol 28, Issue 1 *"

In a review of three recent books on environmental policy, including Environmental Conflict and Democracy in Canada, Graeme Auld, Carleton University, School of Public Policy and Administration, says: Taken together, these volumes are an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the complex challenges environmental problems, new and old, present, even in advanced industrial countries. Review of Policy Research, Vol 28, Issue 1

In a review of three recent books on environmental policy, including Environmental Conflict and Democracy in Canada, Graeme Auld, Carleton University, School of Public Policy and Administration, says: Taken together, these volumes are an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the complex challenges environmental problems, new and old, present, even in advanced industrial countries. * Review of Policy Research, Vol 28, Issue 1 *

Author Information

Laurie E. Adkin is an associate professor of comparative politics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta. Contributors: Peter Andrée, Patricia Ballamingie, Darren R. Bardati, Nathalie Berny, Colette Fluet, Jason Found, Liette Gilbert, Donna Harrison, William T. Hipwell, Raymond Hudon, Naomi Krogman, Susan W. Lee, Michael Mascarenhas, R. Michael M’Gonigle, Jane Mulkewich, Richard Oddie, Maxime Ouellet, James Overton, John R. Parkins, L. Anders Sandberg, Lucy Sharratt, Martha Stiegman, Cheryl Teelucksingh, and Gerda R. Wekerle

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