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Title Innovation, science, and environment : Canadian policies and performance, 2008-2009 / edited by Glen Toner
Published Montreal : Published for the School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University by McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 235 pages) : illustrations
Series Innovation, science, environment series ; 3
Innovation, science, environment series ; 3
Contents The Harper minority government and ISE: second year-second thoughts / Glen Toner -- Missing the opportunity: a decade of sustainable development strategies / Francois Bregha -- Making a better world, one undertaking at a time: sustainability assessment and innovative decision making in Canada / Robert B. Gibson -- Why smart growth isn't working: an examination of Ottawa's failure to deliver sustainable urban transit / Robert Hilton and Christopher Stoney -- The social foundations for sustainability: carbon, creativity, and the failure of Canadian forestry strategy / David Robinson -- Sticks, carrots and sermons (and workshops, too): environment Canada and calls for a robust bird conservation toolkit / Jeremy Wilson -- Uncertainty, precaution, and adaptive management in Canadian pesticide regulation / C. Scott Findlay and Annik Deziel -- Geological carbon storage: the roles of government and industry in risk management / Rose Murphy and Mark Jaccard -- Climate change and Canada: beyond tomorrow / Robert Paehlke -- The development agenda at WIPO" where is canada? / Sara Bannerman -- Convergence and science management / Jac van Beek and Frances Isaacs
Summary Rapidly developing changes in technology, scientific knowledge, and domestic and international environmental issues force analysts to constantly reevaluate how public policy is coping. Are governments leading, following, or falling behind other societal actors? This third volume in a series of annual assessments of Canadian public policy provides an innovative approach to evaluating key developments in one of the most challenging areas of public policy in the twenty-first century. Leading experts look at crucial issues such as climate change, sustainable development policy tools, science management, and the international approach to governing intellectual property. They address recent developments within the pesticide, wildlife, and infrastructure policy areas involving the federal government and key private and non-governmental players. The 2008-09 volume explores the role of governments in a number of key areas, showing that while government institutions and policies should be part of the solution to the complex array of science and technology and environment and development issues facing Canadians, too often it appears they are part of the problem. Contributors include Glen Toner (Carleton), Robert Paehlke (Trent), Mark Jaccard and Rose Murphy (Simon Fraser), Jac van Beek (Canada Foundation for Innovation) and Frances Issaacs (National Research Council of Canada), Sara Bannerman (Carleton), Robert Gibson (Waterloo), David Robinson (Laurentian), Francois Bregha (Stratos Inc.), Scott Findlay and Annick Dezeil (Ottawa), Robert Hilton and Christopher Stoney (Carleton), and Jeremy Wilson (Victoria)."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Environmental policy -- Canada -- Evaluation
Environmental policy -- Canada
Sustainable development -- Government policy -- Canada
Technological innovations -- Government policy -- Canada
Science and state -- Canada
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy.
SCIENCE -- Environmental Science.
SCIENCE -- General.
Environmental policy
Environmental policy -- Evaluation
Science and state
Sustainable development -- Government policy
Technological innovations -- Government policy
Canada
Form Electronic book
Author Toner, Glen, 1952-
Carleton University. School of Public Policy and Administration.
ISBN 9780773575080
0773575081
1282865633
9781282865631
9786612865633
6612865636
0773577742
9780773577749
Other Titles Canadian policies and performance, 2008-2009