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. 8

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 failure? Sustainability 9(165); doi:10.3390/su9020165

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 policies to diversification in forms of engagement. Journal of Environmental Management, 119, 47-55

Carter, A. V., Fraser, G. S., & Zalik, A. (2017). Environmental policy convergence in Canada's fossil fuel provinces? Regulatory streamlining, impediments, and drift. Canadian Public Policy, 43(1), 61-76

Simmons, J.M. (2015). Federalism, intergovernmental relations, and the environment. Chapter 8 In Debora L. VanNijnatten (ed.), Canadian Environmental Policy and Politics: the Challenges of Austerity and Ambivalence. Oxford University Press

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

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