Environmental Governance in the Gulf of St Lawrence

Peter Clancy, Mario Levesque (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

406 Seiten

2025
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
9780774870948 (ISBN)

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The Gulf of St. Lawrence is one of Canada's largest and most complex marine systems, bordering on five provinces with 250,000 people living in proximity to the coast. Managing the aquatic environment of this vast territory must consider not only biophysical processes but also human use, policy jurisdiction, and politics.

Environmental Governance in the Gulf of St. Lawrence focuses on the coastal margin and deepwater Gulf in a series of policy studies, covering topics such as marine infrastructure, fisheries, offshore petroleum, coastal zones, marine transport, aquaculture, large ocean management, protected areas, and Indigenous governance. The authors examine each semi-autonomous field of environmental action within a geopolitical context, and then compare them as parts of a policy whole, with the goal of understanding the management of this vital region.

This yields a picture of polycentric politics, where environmental policy subnetworks interact. Building on this, Environmental Governance poses questions about possible reform agendas.

Peter Clancy is a senior research professor in the Department of Political Science at St. Francis Xavier University. Among his numerous publications are Freshwater Politics in Canada, Offshore Petroleum Politics: Regulation and Risk in the Scotian Basin, and Micropolitics and Canadian Business: Paper, Steel, and the Airlines. Mario Levesque is an associate professor of Canadian politics and public policy in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Mount Allison University. His work has been published in Canadian Public Policy, Canadian Public Administration, and the Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law, among other journals.

Part 1: Introduction

1 The Gulf of St. Lawrence as a Field of Study

2 Politics and Governance

Part 2: Gulf Environment Subsectors

3 Marine Infrastructure

4 Fisheries

5 Offshore Oil and Gas

6 Coastal and Shoreline Protection

7 Ship Ballast and Invasive Species

8 Aquaculture

9 Large Ocean Management and GOSLIM

10 Marine Protected Areas

11 Indigenous Peoples and Gulf Governance

Part 3: Interpretations

12 Policy Networks

13 Polycentric Governance

14 Civil Society

15 Reimagining Gulf Governance

References; Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.07.2025
Reihe/Serie	Sustainability and the Environment
Zusatzinfo	14 maps, 24 charts, 7 tables
Verlagsort	Vancouver
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Hydrologie / Ozeanografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-13	9780774870948 / 9780774870948
Zustand	Neuware