Innovation, science, and environment : Canadian policies and performance, 2008-2009 /

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 annua...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Carleton University. School of Public Policy and Administration
Otros Autores: Toner, Glen, 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal : Published for the School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University by McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2008.
Colección:Innovation, science, environment series ; 3.
Temas:
Environmental policy > Canada > Evaluation.
Environmental policy > Canada.
Sustainable development > Government policy > Canada.
Technological innovations > Government policy > Canada.
Science and state > Canada.
Environnement > Politique gouvernementale > Canada > Évaluation.
Environnement > Politique gouvernementale > Canada.
Développement durable > Politique gouvernementale > Canada.
Innovations > Politique gouvernementale > Canada.
Politique scientifique et technique > 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.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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