G Bruce Doern: 8 books
Three Bio-Realms
Biotechnology and the Governance of Food, Health, and Life in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Biotechnology has become one of the most important issues in public policy and governance, altering the boundaries between the public and the private, the economic and the social, and further complicating the divide between what is scientifically possible and ethically preferred. Given the importance...
The Greening of Canada
Federal Institutions and Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
Environmental matters have become increasingly important in Canadian and world policy agendas. In this study, G. Bruce Doern and Thomas Conway trace the development of Canadian environment policy, giving an in-depth account of twenty years of environmental politics, politicians, institutions, and...
Power Switch
Energy Regulatory Governance in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2003
In the energy sector of Canadian economic and political life, power has a double meaning. It is quintessentially about the generation of power and physical energy. However, it is also about political power, the energy of the economy, and thus the overall governance of Canada. Power Switch offers a...
by G. Bruce Doern, John Coleman, Barry E. Prentice
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Given its geographical expanse, Canada has always faced long-term transport policy issues and challenges. Canadian Multi-Modal Transport Policy and Governance explains how and why Canadian transportation policy and related governance changed from the Pierre Trudeau era through the Chretien, Martin,...
Green-lite
Complexity in Fifty Years of Canadian Environmental Policy, Governance, and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Anchored in the core literature on natural resources, energy production, and environmental analysis, Green-lite is a critical examination of Canadian environmental policy, governance, and politics drawing out key policy and governance patterns to show that the Canadian story is one of complexity and...
Canadian Public Budgeting in the Age of Crises
Shifting Budgetary Domains and Temporal Budgeting
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crunch, a pending era of budgetary austerity looms over Canada. Canadian Public Budgeting in the Age of Crises provides a roadmap through the difficult fiscal decisions that have characterized contemporary federal politics across four decades. The authors provide...
Canadian Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy
The Innovation Economy and Society Nexus
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Canadian Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy presents new critical analysis about related developments in the field such as significantly changed concepts of peer review, merit review, the emergence of big data in the digital age, and the rise of an economy and society dominated by the internet...
Rules and Unruliness
Canadian Regulatory Democracy, Governance, Capitalism, and Welfarism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A critical examination of Canadian regulatory governance and politics over the past fifty years, Rules and Unruliness builds on the theory and practice of rule-making to show why government "unruliness" - the inability to form rules and implement structures for compliance - is endemic and...