Key Concepts and Rationalities in Canada's Environmental Enforcement Act: Tensions between Environmental Protection and Economic Development

Abstract

iv Chapter 1: Overview of Canadian Environmental Governance Chapter Plan 06 Chapter 2: Description of the Methodology, Research Problems, and Research Questions Key Concepts in Governance 10 Neoliberal Governance 11 Economic Globalization 13 Key Concepts in Environmental Governance 16 Risk Management, Sustainability and Precaution as Environmental Governance Solutions 16 Philosophical Anthropocentrism 18 Key Concepts in Political Economy 21 The Political Economic Perspective 22 Canada, the Staples Theory and Resource Development 23 Canada’s Political Economic Context 25 Research Questions and Hypotheses 26 Outline of the Methodology and Data Analysis Approach 30 Data Analysis Approach 31 Strengths of Content Analysis 34 Addressing the Weaknesses of Content Analysis 35 Data Source: The Environmental Enforcement Act (EEA) 36 Summary of Chapter 2: Content Analysis and Critical Evaluation of the Environmental 37 Enforcement Act Chapter 3: Content Analysis of Key Concepts and Rationalities Present in the EEA Rationalities in Governance Identified in the Content of the EEA 39 Rationalities in Environmental Governance Identified in the Content of the EEA 45 Key Concepts in Political Economy Identified in the Content of the EEA 57 Key Concepts and Rationalities in the Content of the EEA 61 Chapter 4: Critical Evaluation of the Environmental Enforcement Act Neoliberalism 64 Economic Globalization 69 Rational Choice Methods of Deterrence 75