Can public engagement democratize environmental policymaking in a resource-dependent state? Comparative case studies from Alberta, Canada

Adkin, Laurie E.; Hanson, Lorelei L.; Kahane, David; Parkins, John R.; Patten, Steve

doi:10.1080/09644016.2016.1244967

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“…Using the data from a survey administered to 215 stakeholder groups worldwide and separately, 69 case studies of specific stakeholder engagement, Akhmouch and Clavreul [35] shared the experiences and lessons that had emerged from engaging stakeholders in the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) Water Governance Initiative. By reviewing the motivations, purposes, designs, and outcomes of public engagement in climate change policy and water resource management in Alberta, Canada, Adkin et al [36] pointed out that political leadership and the interactions between civil society actors were shown to be important to promote environmental governance.…”

Section: Advantages and Challenges Of Public Participationmentioning

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The Role of Public Participation in Environmental Governance: Empirical Evidence from China

Guo¹,

Bai²

2019

Sustainability

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As an essential stakeholder of environmental resources, the public has become the third force which assists in promoting environmental governance, together with local governments and polluting enterprises. In this paper, we construct a mediation model and a 2SLS (Two Stage Least Square) model to illustrate the role of public participation based on inter-provincial panel data of China from 2011 to 2015. The results indicate that the advantages of handling informational asymmetry and enhancing social supervision are the two logical starting points of involving public participation in environmental governance. As the public has no executive power, they can participate in environmental governance in an indirect way by lobbying local governments' environmental enforcement of polluting enterprises. In addition, their deterrent of polluting enterprises can also generate effects similar to local governments' environmental enforcement, and such a deterrent will help promote environmental governance directly. At the present time in China, the effects of public participation in environmental governance are mainly reflected in the form of back-end governance, while the effects of front-end governance are not remarkable enough. This research is of great significance in perfecting China's environmental governance system by means of arousing and expanding the public's rights to participate in environmental governance.

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The Role of Public Participation in Environmental Governance: Empirical Evidence from China

Guo¹,

Bai²

2019

Sustainability

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“…Social learning opportunities should be built into the planning process in order to identify value differences and agreements, to increase understanding between diverse local actors, and to clarify different visions for the future of a landscape (Reimer ; de Groot et al ; Raymond et al ; Plieninger et al ). More attention to diverse social actors’ values could also improve linkages between stakeholder consultation and “actual policymaking,” which Adkin et al (, 317) identify as critical for democratic environmental governance in Alberta.…”

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Identifying ranching landscape values in the Calgary, Alberta region: Implications for land‐use planning

Benoit¹,

Johnston²,

MacLachlan³

et al. 2018

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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In recent years, ranching landscapes in the region of Calgary, Alberta have experienced intensifying land‐use pressures related to urban growth and development. At the same time, Alberta's land‐use policies have introduced voluntary, market‐based incentives to encourage the conservation and stewardship of private land. Given this new emphasis, this study aims to better understand different perspectives of ranching landscapes among residents and landowners in two rural municipalities surrounding Calgary. Drawing on cultural landscapes and political ecology literatures, this paper identifies four broad categories of ranching landscape values that participants felt were important to maintain: lifestyle and community values; ecological values; production values; and economic values and property rights. Participants’ diverse place meanings suggest a need to expand the ways in which landscapes are understood and assessed within local contexts, as a strategy for promoting private land stewardship and for resolving tensions in land‐use planning processes.

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“…Work examining the political inertia that characterizes fossil fuel dependent economies is complemented by a recent literature that combines the sociology of corporate power with the political economy and ecology of fossil capital Adkin et al 2017;Carroll 2017;Carter and Zalik 2016;Graham 2017). Emerging research from Carroll (2017) provides a wide-angle view on the organization and architecture of the carbon sector in Canada, mapping its internal structure as a network of interlocking directorates and its ties to the financial sector and other segments of corporate capital -national and transnational.…”

Section: Corporate Power and Carbon Capitalmentioning

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Forces of Production, Climate Change and Canadian Fossil Capitalism

Graham¹

2021

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The dissertation reinterprets the concept of forces of production through an ecological lens and analyzes the fettering of "green productive forces" in the context of the deepening climate crisis. In contrast to more established interpretations, I define forces of production broadly as the practices, processes, relations and objects through which we are purposefully linked to and transform the rest of nature. I demonstrate the basis for this interpretation in Marx's own work and develop its implication through contemporary scholarship. In present circumstances, it allows us to see that ecological knowledge itself, as well as associated developments in renewable energy technology and green infrastructure, represent advancements in productive forces. However, I argue that such green productive forces are today fettered by capitalist relations of production. The second portion of the dissertation analyzes this process through case studies focusing on Canadian fossil capitalism. In this context, I examine the deepening of fossil-fuelled productive forces and simultaneous blockages in the development and productive utilization of renewable energy and ecological knowledge. This includes a focus on carbon capital's strategic efforts to colonize such productive forces and fashion them in a manner that is consonant with the accumulation strategies and power relations permeating fossil capitalism.

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Can public engagement democratize environmental policymaking in a resource-dependent state? Comparative case studies from Alberta, Canada

Cited by 16 publications

References 17 publications

The Role of Public Participation in Environmental Governance: Empirical Evidence from China

The Role of Public Participation in Environmental Governance: Empirical Evidence from China

Identifying ranching landscape values in the Calgary, Alberta region: Implications for land‐use planning

Forces of Production, Climate Change and Canadian Fossil Capitalism

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