Environmental and Conservation Policy

Olive, A. and Millar, H. (2025). The Canadian Environment in Political Context. University of Toronto Press

Theory, Concepts, Frameworks (2 weeks)

Tietenberg, T. & Lewis, L. (2015). Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Tenth Edition. Pearson Education. Chapter 2

Howes, M., Wortley, L., Potts, R. Dedekorkut-Howes, A. Serrao-Neumann, S., Davidson, J.,

Smith, T. and Nunn, P. (2017). Environmental sustainability: a case of policy implementation

Brown, D. (2012). Cooperative versus competitive federalism: outcomes and consequences of intergovernmental relations on climate change issues in Canada. Zeitschrift fur Kanada-Studien 9-27

Parlee, B. L. (2015). Avoiding the resource curse: Indigenous communities and Canada’s oil sands. World Development, 74, 425-436

Fortier, J. F., Wyatt, S., Natcher, D. C., Smith, M. A. P., & Hébert, M. (2013). An inventory of collaborative arrangements between Aboriginal peoples and the Canadian forest sector: Linking

Cohen, M. A., & Tubb, A. (2018). The impact of environmental regulation on firm and country competitiveness: A meta-analysis of the Porter hypothesis. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 5(2), 371-399

Weber, M., Krogman, N., Foote, L. and Rooney, R. (2017). Natural capital and the political economy of wetland governance in Alberta. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning. 19(3):279-292

Woodhouse, P. and Muller, M. (2016). Water governance – an historical perspective on current debates. World Development 92: 225-241

Luckert, M.K., Haley, D. and Hoberg, G. (2011). Introduction. Policies for Sustainably Managing Canada’s Forests: Tenure, Stumpage Fees and Forest Practices. UBC Press

Boxall, P.C., Perger, O., Packman, K. and Weber, M. (2017). An experimental examination of target based conservation auctions. Land Use Policy 63: 592-600

Vatn, A. (2015). Markets in environmental governance, from theory to practice. Ecological Economics 117: 225-233

Bird, S. C., & Hodges, K. E. (2017). Critical habitat designation for Canadian listed species: Slow, biased, and incomplete. Environmental Science & Policy, 71, 1-8

Parlee, B. L., Sandlos, J., & Natcher, D. C. (2018). Undermining subsistence: Barren-ground caribou in a “tragedy of open access”. Science Advances, 4(2), e1701611

Field, Barry and Nancy Olewiler, Environmental Economics, Updated Second Canadian Edition. McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2005