Sustainable development as environmental harm : rights, regulation, and injustice in the Canadian oil sands /

In this in-depth analysis of First Nations opposition to the oil sands industry, James Heydon offers detailed empirical insight into Canadian oil sands regulation. The environmental consequences of the oil sands industry have been thoroughly explored by scholars from a variety of disciplines. Howeve...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Heydon, James (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2019.
Edición:1 Edition.
Colección:Crimes of the powerful (London, England)
Temas:
Oil sands > Environmental aspects > Canada.
Sustainable development > Canada.
Sables bitumineux > Aspect de l'environnement > Canada.
Développement durable > Canada.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Natural Resource Extraction.
Oil sands > Environmental aspects
Sustainable development
Canada
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Background and analytical lens
  • The oil sands and its discontents
  • Regulating 'sustainable development' of the oil sands resource
  • The regulatory process
  • The directing features of policy and strategy
  • Issues with the 'planning' stage of the regulatory process
  • Issues with the 'approval' stage of the regulatory process
  • The catalyst for harm and inefficacy of control
  • The catalyst for harm: 'weak' ecological modernisation in policy and practice
  • The inefficacy of control: systematic infringement of treaty rights and the justificatory function of compound denial
  • 'Sustainable development' -as-environmental harm : the lessons of the Canadian oil sands.

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