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Policies of Extinction: The Life and Death of Canada's Endangered Species Legislation
Author(s) -
Rogers Raymond A.,
Wilkinson Christopher J. A.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
policy studies journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.773
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1541-0072
pISSN - 0190-292X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1541-0072.2000.tb02023.x
Subject(s) - legislation , endangered species , stakeholder , sustainability , government (linguistics) , environmental planning , political science , business , public administration , geography , ecology , law , biology , habitat , linguistics , philosophy
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.