Sustainable Development as Environmental Harm: Rights, Regulation, and Injustice in the Canadian Oil Sands

ISBN-13: 9781138390089 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 212 str.

James Heydon

Opis

An in-depth analysis of the First Nations opposition to the oil sands industry, this work offers detailed empirical insight into Canadian oil sands regulation. This work addresses the shortcomings of the existing literature and provides a platform from which future investigations into environmental victimisation may be conducted.

Spis treści

Section 1: Background and Analytical Lens;  1. The Oil Sands and Their Discontents; 2. Regulating ‘Sustainable Development’ of the Oil Sands Resource;  Section 2: The Regulatory Process;  3. The Directing Features of Policy and Strategy; 4. Issues with the ‘Planning’ Stage of the Regulatory Process; 5. Issues with the ‘Approval’ Stage of the Regulatory Process; Section 3: The Catalyst for Harm and Inefficacy of Control;  6. The Catalyst for Harm: ‘Weak’ Ecological Modernisation in Policy and Practice; 7. The Inefficacy of Control: Systematic Infringement of Treaty Rights and the Justificatory Function of Compound Denial; 8. ‘Sustainable Development’ as Environmental Harm: The Lessons of the Canadian Oil Sands