The Ultimate Horizontal Issue: The Environmental Policy Experiences of Alberta and Ontario, 1971–1993

1994 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Winfield
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Environmental Politics ◽  
The State ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Provincial Level ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Canadian Provinces

AbstractThis article summarizes the conclusions of a comparative study of the environmental policy experiences of two Canadian provinces, Alberta and Ontario, in the period 1971–1993. The examination led to the conclusion that there is a pattern of environmental politics and policy-making common to both provinces, although it emerges at a different pace. This divergence is a function of well-known societal differences between the two provinces. Furthermore, in the Ontario and Alberta experiences, the policy-making capacity of the state can be seen to be severely challenged by the cross-sectoral nature of environmental policy issues. A number of observations regarding the effects of federal-provincial relations and of American influences on environmental policy-making at the provincial level in Canada are also possible.

Business and Environmental Politics in Canada

2008 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 243-244
Author(s):  
Peter Andree
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Environmental Politics ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Business Interests ◽  
Corporate Greening

Business and Environmental Politics in Canada, Douglas MacDonald, Peterborough ON: Broadview Press, 2007, pp. xi, 224.Whether because of Al Gore, increasingly stern warnings from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or the strange weather of late, this past year has seen political actors of all stripes—business leaders prominent among them—restate their commitment to the environment. MacDonald's new book is thus a timely contribution, offering a historical perspective that may lead readers to treat the latest round of corporate “greening” with caution. This study of shifting business interests, strategies and power in relation to environmental policy making demonstrates how firms have worked over the last fifty years, notwithstanding public statements and even some sincere efforts to the contrary, to minimize the threats posed by new environmental regulations.

3. Movements, parties, policies

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Dobson
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Environmental Politics ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Environmental Movement ◽  
Intentional Communities ◽  
Policy Tools ◽  
Pressure Groups

‘Movements, parties, policies’ explains the ‘machinery’ of environmental politics—the movement that nurtures and expresses the politics, the parties that are the electoral vehicles for getting the politics into the system, and the array of policy instruments that are available for putting society on a more sustainable footing. The organizations that make up the environmental movement can be categorized into different groups: public interest lobbies, professional protest organizations, participatory pressure groups, participatory protest organizations, and intentional communities. Green political parties are considered along with environmental policy-making. What are the challenges and what are the policy tools that politicians have at their disposal to meet them?

A flood of models: Mekong ecologies of comparison

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Casper Bruun Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Environmental Politics ◽  
Mekong River ◽  
Mekong River Basin

In recent decades, scientists have developed a wide array of hydrological, hydrodynamic, and other models to understand the dynamics of the Mekong River Basin. Indeed, the area has been described as ‘flooded’ with models. Drawing on STS and the philosophy of modeling – which has described models as mediating instruments – the first half of this article discusses how and why this proliferation has occurred, focusing on the Cambodian context. Highlighting that models are developed comparatively, with reference to one another, the analysis shows how they have generated a partially connected ecology of comparisons. As each model makes its own image of the Mekong, the ecology as a whole creates a kaleidoscopic effect. In principle, this ecology is important for that of environmental policy-making. In practice, however, it is tremendously difficult for scientists to bridge the ecologies. Examining two cases of NGO-based modeling aiming to influence policy, the second half of the paper offers a comparative analysis of the challenges modeling knowledge faces in Mekong environmental politics.

History, Policy Making, and Sustainability

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Om Prakash
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Global Dimension ◽  
The State ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
The Public ◽  
Key Policy ◽  
Quality Of Governance

Public policy and policy making is an inherent task of the institutions and state for the purpose of well-knit and sustainable governance in the society and organisation as well as in the state. The quality of governance is based upon how visionary the public policy is and how far it has been implemented. The aspect of sustainability thrives on the perspective that policy making should be inclusive having inter-generational justice. The chapter attempts to look into how far history has played its role in policymaking of the state and civil society. It also looked into how history had a role in the foreign policy making of the state. Analogies can be drawn from the past experience into the present decision making which can have a reflection in the future as well. Lyndon Johnson's administration prepared internal histories to key policy issues, in hopes of better informing the initial efforts of its successor. The illustrations and examples in the chapter are not confined to the geographical boundaries of any particular nation but rather have a global dimension.

Environmental Policy

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Jones ◽  
Elizabeth A. Shanahan ◽  
Lisa J. Hammer
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
State And Local

In this chapter the authors examine state and local environmental policy. They provide a brief historical but policy-centered background, which pays special attention to the role of federalism in environmental policy. Next they summarize the state of academic and scientific research on state and local environmental policy. The next two sections give the reader an aggregate sense of what substantive environmental policy areas are being studied by reporting the aggregated peer-reviewed publications reported in three databases between 1980 and 2011. In addition, the authors focus on two areas highlighted in the literature: public participation in environmental policy making and climate change policy. Finally, the authors provide a summary of the state of existing literature and offer directions for future research.

A Comparative Study of the in vivo Distribution of 32P-Polyphosphates and 32P-Orthophosphate

1972 ◽  
Vol 11 (01) ◽  
pp. 70-78
Author(s):  
Esther Miller ◽  
Leopoldo Anghileri
Keyword(s):  
Radiation Dose ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Soft Tissues ◽  
Tumor Bearing ◽  
In Vivo Distribution ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Total Body

SummaryThe distribution of 32P-polyphosphates (lineal and cross-linked) and 32Porthophosphate in normal and tumor bearing animals has been studied. Differences between the cross-linked and the lineal form are related to a different degree of susceptibility to the hydrolysis by the phosphatases. In contrast to orthophosphate, the polyphosphates showed a lower accumulation in soft tissues which gives an advantageous reduction of the total body radiation dose.

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