Passing the Buck: Federalism and Canadian Environmental Policy

Schrecker, Ted; Harrison, Kathryn; Holland, Kenneth; Morton, F. L.; Galligan, Brian

doi:10.2307/3551577

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“…Provincial resistance to climate action was reinforced by economic competition, though consistent with a 'stuck at the status quo' dynamic rather than an all-out 'race to the bottom' (Harrison 1996a;Olewiler 2006). Moreover, with greater international than interprovincial trade (Statistics Canada [2012] 2021), the status quo in question was set not by other provinces so much as the United States, Canada's main trading partner.…”

Section: The 'Joint Decision Trap'mentioning

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Climate Governance and Federalism in Canada

Harrison¹

2023

Climate Governance and Federalism

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Climate Governance and Federalism in Canada

Harrison¹

2023

Climate Governance and Federalism

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“…Este aspecto cobra relevancia en Argentina, donde las unidades subnacionales, como se viera, tienen el dominio originario sobre los recursos naturales. El federalismo ambiental puede favorecer los estándares nacionales de protección ambiental, evitando la llamada «racing to the bottom» (carrera hacia abajo) (Harrison, 1996). Pero, al mismo tiempo, también tiende a multiplicar las posibles disputas entre niveles de gobierno en torno a las discusiones ambientales.…”

Section: Conflictos Medioambientales Federalismo Y Judicializaciónunclassified

Judicialización ambiental y escalas en tensión: El caso del derrame de agua cianurada en la mina Veladero en San Juan, Argentina

Christel

2024

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Las disputas en torno a las múltiples escalas de acción y de decisión son una de las principales características de la cuestión medioambiental. Esta multiescalaridad se manifiesta en distintos aspectos, como el reparto de responsabilidades y facultades institucionales, las estrategias de los actores y la distribución de beneficios o daños derivados de la explotación ambiental. En los sistemas federales, además, las dinámicas de escala se vuelven más complejas dado que el nivel subnacional suele poseer determinadas prerrogativas sobre las cuestiones medioambientales. Particularmente, el dominio provincial sobre los recursos naturales y el ámbito ambiental es un rasgo muy característico del federalismo argentino. Este trabajo analiza el juego de escalas desencadenado por las estrategias de judicialización de un episodio concreto de conflicto ambiental en un contexto federal: Los derrames de agua cianurada en la mina Veladero en la provincia de San Juan, Argentina, en 2015, 2016 y 2017. Se argumenta aquí que las estrategias de judicialización producidas por incidentes ambientales en un sistema federal combinan movimientos de tipo ascendente («bottom-up»), descendente («top-down») y de congelamiento («freezing») y desencadenan un juego de escalas no lineal, incierto y eminentemente desigual.

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“…The survey shows that the public possesses a very high awareness of pollution issues, with at least 91% of all respondents expressing familiarity with the issue. Of these, 63% consider pollution to be a very important problem [15]. Although public awareness remained high and increased over time, this trend declined slowly throughout the 1970s and early 1980s and did not begin to rebound until the late 1980s.…”

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Canada-United States Relations in the Environmental Field

Zhang

2023

LNEP

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With the globalization of environmental issues, the impact of environmental pollution on people's lives has become increasingly important. Environmental issues have become increasingly urgent for governments and people in Canada and the United States, primarily due to the growing popularity of industrialization and urbanization. With the longest Canada-U.S. border in the world, the two countries' environmental relationship will directly impact environmental issues on both sides of the border. In terms of environmental policies and diplomatic relations, both countries played an excellent role as the first group of developed countries to emerge from the environmental movement. Based on many scholars' explorations and perspectives on the environmental relationship between Canada and the United States. This article will focus on the environmental policies of the two countries in the mid-to-late 20th century, exploring cross-governmental interactions as well as cross-border scientific and technological collaboration in the context of environmental policies from both countries. Meanwhile, the United States, the most powerful country of the period, has been a role model and an object of imitation in the environmental field for Canada and other countries. However, as the closest neighborhood, the United States has influenced Canada's environmental development positively and negatively, either directly or indirectly.

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Passing the Buck: Federalism and Canadian Environmental Policy

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Climate Governance and Federalism in Canada

Climate Governance and Federalism in Canada

Judicialización ambiental y escalas en tensión: El caso del derrame de agua cianurada en la mina Veladero en San Juan, Argentina

Canada-United States Relations in the Environmental Field

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