Policies of Extinction: The Life and Death of Canada's Endangered Species Legislation |
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| Authors: | Raymond A Rogers Christopher J A Wilkinson |
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| Institution: | associate professor in the faculty of environmental studies at York University in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of Nature and the Crisis of Modernity (1994), The Oceans are Emptying: Fish Wars and Sustainability (1995). and Solving History: The Challenge of Environmental Activism (1998).;Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geography at the University of Waterloo, Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada. |
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| Abstract: | This article examines the attempt by the Canadian Federal Government to pass endangered species legislation (1995). It focuses on the constraints which confront the creation of environmental policy in Canada and identifies jurisdictional overlap and stakeholder conflict as the prime source of difficulties which confronted the Federal Government as it moved through the policy process for creating endangered species legislation. The wide-ranging consultation process leading up to the creation of the legislation provided ample opportunity for powerful interests to undermine the protection of endangered species. The article concludes with a discussion of endangered species legislation as an example of the failure of the "crisis management" approach to conservation and sustainability. |
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