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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774809868 ISBN 13: 9780774809863

Publisher: UBC Press, 2004

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774809868
• ISBN 13: 9780774809863
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Perl Anthony, Lee Eugene