In this new and updated edition, the authors once again examine policy making in one of the most significant areas of activity in the Canadian economy--natural resources and the environment--and discuss the evolution of resource policies from the early era of exploitation to the present era of resource and environmental management. Using an integrated political economy and policy perspective, the book provides an analytic framework from which the foundation of ideological perspectives, administrative structures, and substantive issues are explored. Departing from traditional approaches...

In this new and updated edition, the authors once again examine policy making in one of the most significant areas of activity in the Canadian economy--natural resources and the environment--and discuss the evolution of resource policies from the early era of exploitation to the present era of resource and environmental management. Using an integrated political economy and policy perspective, the book provides an analytic framework from which the foundation of ideological perspectives, administrative structures, and substantive issues are explored. Departing from traditional approaches...