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288 pp.
13 tables/figures, 6" x 9"

ISBN-13:
9780195415063

Copyright Year:
2001

Imprint: OUP Canada

Politics of the Wild

Canada and Endangered Species

Edited by Karen Beazley and Robert Boardman

Politics of the Wild details the 353 species at risk in Canada and considers both the intrinsic and the instrumental reasons for protecting biological diversity. It examines the need for habitat protection, terrestrial protected areas such as national parks, marine species at risk, and the various legislative and interest group attempts to preserve biodiversity. Public policy on endangered species is considered from both historical and comparative perspectives, as is Canada's role in establishing international agreements--the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species and the Convention on Biological Diversity--and the government's failure in recent years to meet the obligations of these and other environmental agreements.

The final chapter looks at the Species at Risk Act (SARA) and its recent predecessor, Bill C-65, and reveals the difficulties of crafting and passing such legislation in an increasingly decentralized federal state such as Canada. Both legislative attempts were criticized--by the environmental policy community for not doing enough, and by the provinces and business for trying to do too much. All the while, diverse regional interests and economic imperatives run the risk of endangering far more than merely Canadian species at risk.

Readership : Supplemental text for environmental studies, politics and public policy, resource management, environmental law, and conservation biology.

PrefaceDavid Suzuki:
Abbreviations
IntroductionKaren Beazley and Robert Boardman:
Part One: From Philosophy to Science
1. Karen Beazley: Why Should We Protect Endangered Species? Philosophical and Ecological Rationale
2. Bill Freedman, Dalhousie University, Lindsay Rodger, World Wildlife Fund Canada, Peter Ewins, World Wildlife Fund Canada, and David M. Green, McGill University: Species at Risk in Canada
3. David Gauthier, University of Regina and Ed Wiken, Canadian Council on Ecological Areas: Avoiding the Endangerment of Species: The Importance of Habitats and Ecosystems
4. Philip Dearden, University of Victoria: Endangered Species and Terrestrial Protected Areas
5. Martin Willison, Dalhousie University: Endangered Marine Species and Marine Protected Areas in Canada
Part Two: From Science to Policy
6. Stephen Bocking, Trent University: The Politics of Endangered Species: A Historical Perspective
7. William Amos, Kathryn Harrison, and George Hoberg, all at University of British Columbia: In Search of a Minimum Winning Coalition: The Politics of Species- at-Risk Legislation in Canada
8. Robert Boardman: Risk Politics in Western States: Canadian Species in Comparative Perspective
9. Philippe Le Prestre, UQAM and Peter Stoett, Concordia University: International Initiatives, Commitments and Disappointments: Canada, CITES, and the CBD
10. Robert Boardman, Amelia Clarke, and Karen Beazley: The Prospects for Canada's Species at Risk
Web Sites
Contributors
Index

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Karen Beazley is an assistant professor in the School for Resource and Environmental Studies at Dalhousie University. Her research and teaching interests include protcted area system planning, biological diversity conservation, conservation biology, landscape ecology, and environmental ethics. She is a member of the board of directors of the Science and the Management of Protect Areas Association (SAMPAA). Robert Boardman is a professor of Political Science at Dalhousie University. His research interests focus on international environmental policy.

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Special Features

Covers all the aspects of the problem of endangered species, from the philosophical to the biological to the political; from the local to the international
Provides a Canadian perspective on Canadian issues within the global context of the biodiversity crisis and international policies
The authors come from a diverse array of academic disciplines including ecology, conservation biology, philosophy, geography, political science, environmental studies, and history, as well as from the Museum of Nature and environmental non-goverment organizations including, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Sierra Club.
Comprehensive list of relevant web sites are provided
Preface by David Suzuki