Science, Politics, and U.S. Forest Law: The Battle over the Forest Service Planning Rule

This paper reviews the battles over the Forest Service planning rule that culminated in the November 2000 revising of the regulations implementing the National Forest Management Act. In a departure froj the agency’s emphasis on multiple use, the rule established ecological sustainability as the key objective guiding planning for the national forests. The supporting material explicitly states that “it is based on the recommendation of an eminent committee of scientists.” This pape5r examines the Committee of Scientists and the NFMA rule as a case study in the relation between science and politics in the development and implementation of statutory standards for management of the National Forest System. The conclusion considerations the broader question of whether the Committee and Forest Service overstepped their appropriate roles in promoting what is essentially a new statutory mandate.Forest Service, planning, National Forest Management Act, Committee of Scientists, multiple use, sustainability

The Resistance Dilemma

How organized resistance to new fossil fuel infrastructure became a political force and how this might affect the transition to renewable energy. Organized resistance to new fossil fuel infrastructure, particularly conflicts over pipelines, has become a formidable political force in North America. In this book, George Hoberg examines whether such place-based environmental movements are effective ways of promoting climate action, if they might inadvertently feed resistance to the development of renewable energy infrastructure, and what other, more innovative processes of decision-making would encourage the acceptance of clean energy systems. Focusing on a series of conflicts over new oil sands pipelines, Hoberg investigates activists' strategy of blocking fossil fuel infrastructure, often in alliance with Indigenous groups, and examines the political and environmental outcomes of these actions. After discussing the oil sands policy regime and the relevant political institutions in Canada and the United States, Hoberg analyzes in detail four anti-pipeline campaigns, examining the controversies over the Keystone XL, the most well-known of these movements and the first one to use infrastructure resistance as a core strategy; the Northern Gateway pipeline; the Trans Mountain pipeline; and the Energy East pipeline. He then considers the “resistance dilemma”: the potential of place-based activism to threaten the much-needed transition to renewable energy. He examines several episodes of resistance to clean energy infrastructure in eastern Canada and the United States. Finally, Hoberg describes some innovative processes of energy decision-making, including strategic environment assessment, and cumulative impact assessment, looking at cases in British Columbia and Lower Alberta

Progress Report to the Department Committee on Graduate Study and Research

Progress Report to the Department Committee on Graduate Study and Research on a Trouble-Location Scheme for a Digital Electronic Computer

Beyond Environmental Regulatory Fragmentation: Signs of Integration in the Case of the Great Lakes Basin

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Stimulating a Canadian narrative for climate

ABSTRACT: This perspective documents current thinking around climate actions in Canada by synthesizing scholarly proposals made by Sustainable Canada Dialogues (SCD), an informal network of scholars from all 10 provinces, and by reviewing responses from civil society representatives to the scholars' proposals. Motivated by Canada's recent history of repeatedly missing its emissions reduction targets and failing to produce a coherent plan to address climate change, SCD mobilized more than 60 scholars to identify possible pathways towards a low-carbon economy and sustainable society and invited civil society to comment on the proposed solutions. This perspective illustrates a range of Canadian ideas coming from many sectors of society and a wealth of existing inspiring initiatives. Solutions discussed include climate change governance, low-carbon transition, energy production, and consumption. This process of knowledge synthesis/creation is novel and important because it provides a working model for making connections across academic fields as well as between academia and civil society. The process produces a holistic set of insights and recommendations for climate change actions and a unique model of engagement. The different voices reported here enrich the scope of possible solutions, showing that Canada is brimming with ideas, possibilities, and the will to act

Chapitre 1. Introduction

Bien avant la Confédération, l’identité nationale canadienne s’est définie en partie par ses relations avec les États-Unis. Celles-ci furent caractérisées par des tensions conflictuelles entre ceux qui voyaient dans des liens commerciaux plus étroits avec les États-Unis des avantages économiques marqués et ceux qui craignaient de voir le Canada s’américaniser, soit sous la forme d’une adhésion à l’Union soit par un envahissement culturel ou éthique. Ces conflits ont pris une importance énorme..

La capacité de choisir : Le Canada dans une nouvelle Amérique du Nord

L'objectif de ce livre est d'examiner les répercussions de l'intégration nord-américaine sur la vie culturelle, intellectuelle, politique, sociale et économique des Canadiens. Les résultats de cette analyse sont étonnants. On y apprend que l'exode des cerveaux ne correspond pas vraiment à ce que les médias en ont dit ; que les industries culturelles sont une des premières sources de revenus de nos voisins du sud ; que les échanges interprovinciaux, malgré un déclin incontestable (spécialement au Québec), l'emportent très nettement sur le commerce avec les États-Unis ; que les négociations de l'ALENA ont été menées sans consultations du milieu syndical et en parfaite harmonie avec le milieu des affaires ; que le fédéralisme canadien piloté par Ottawa tend à étouffer l'autonomie provinciale et ainsi à s'autodétruire ; que les préoccupations écologiques du Canada sont assez timides par rapport à celles des États-Unis. Dans cette perspective, il faut, selon les auteurs, défendre l'autonomie de l'État canadien dans ses alliances commerciales, sociales et culturelles et faire preuve d'un respect plus prononcé pour les prérogatives provinciales. Faute de quoi, l'avenir s'annonce très difficile