Environmental Studies / Environmental Policy

Drawing from concrete examples in the contemporary Canadian context, this book gives readers the tools to think critically about Canadian environmental issues, ranging from theory to practice.

This book sheds light on the interaction between international agricultural trade and domestic foreign policy.

The second edition of Understanding Climate Change provides readers with a concise, accessible, and holistic picture of the climate change problem, including both the scientific and human dimensions.

Policy justice requires engagement of diverse people, knowledges, and forms of evidence at all stages of the policy-making process, from problem definition through to dissemination.

Informed by a chemist’s perspective, The Story of CO₂ offers a timely contribution to the climate crisis debate by highlighting how we can utilize carbon dioxide as a resource.

David Miller presents a compelling case that significant progress can be made at the local level by duplicating the actions of nine leading cities around the world.

Carbon Province, Hydro Province is a major contribution to both academic understanding and the vital question of how our federal and provincial governments can effectively work together, and thereby, for the first time, achieve a Canadian climate-change target.

The Canadian Environment in Political Context is an introductory book on environmental policy in Canada for those with little background in politics and government.

This book introduces students to the complex policy dilemmas related to solving global environmental problems today.

Costly Fix examines the post-1995 Alberta tar sands boom, detailing how the state inflated the profitability of the tar sands and turned a blind eye to environmental issues.

Green Japan critically examines the Japanese effort to combine economic growth with commitments to environmental sustainability.

Growing a Sustainable City? offers a critical analysis of the development of urban agriculture policies and their role in making post-industrial cities more sustainable.

In Nuclear Portraits, scholars from Europe, North America, and Asia demonstrate the complexity, controversy, contradictions, and dangers that surround many aspects of the nuclear industry.

Business in a Changing Climate is the first book to ask major pollution emitting industries in Canada what their preferences are with respect to climate change.

First World Petro-Politics examines the vital yet understudied case of a first world petro-state facing related social, ecological, and economic crises in the context of recent critical work on fossil capitalism.

A Century of Maritime Science reviews the fisheries, environmental, oceanographic, and aquaculture research conducted over the last hundred years at St. Andrews from the perspective of the participating scientists.