Federalism and the Environment: Environmental Policymaking in Australia, Canada, and the United States

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This edited volume is a comprehensive examination of the legal framework in which environmental policy is fashioned in the major English-speaking federations - the United States, Canada and Australia. The need for national solutions to environmental problems emerged long after the largest share of governmental power was allotted to states or provinces. This volume attempts to solve the paradox of how a country can have effective laws protecting the environment, vigorously enforced, when legislative and administrative powers are divided between two tiers of government.

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[A] superb comparative analysis of environmental policymaking three federal systems: Australia, Canada, and the United States....Unlike many edited volumes, Federalism and the Environment is clearly and tightly organized....Scholars and policymakers interested in understanding both the challenges posed by federalism and the opportunites it offers to coherent environmental policymaking will find Federalism and the Environment to be a most useful contribution.-Politics and the Life Sciences
"A superb comparative analysis of environmental policymaking three federal systems: Australia, Canada, and the United States....Unlike many edited volumes, Federalism and the Environment is clearly and tightly organized....Scholars and policymakers interested in understanding both the challenges posed by federalism and the opportunites it offers to coherent environmental policymaking will find Federalism and the Environment to be a most useful contribution."-Politics and the Life Sciences
"[A] superb comparative analysis of environmental policymaking three federal systems: Australia, Canada, and the United States....Unlike many edited volumes, Federalism and the Environment is clearly and tightly organized....Scholars and policymakers interested in understanding both the challenges posed by federalism and the opportunites it offers to coherent environmental policymaking will find Federalism and the Environment to be a most useful contribution."-Politics and the Life Sciences

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KENNETH M. HOLLAND is Professor of Political Science the University of Memphis./e His published works include Comparative Politics in the New World Order, Law and Politics: The Political Role of Courts in the United States, Judicial Activism in Comparative Perspectives, The Political Role of Law Courts in Modern Democracies, and articles appearing in Justice System Journal, Law and Policy Quarterly, Quebec Studies, and Canadian Journal of Law and Society. F. L. MORTON is Professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary. He is the author of Pro-Choice v. Pro-Life: Abortion and the Courts in Canada, and Charter Politics (with Rainer Knopff) as well as articles in Canadian Journal of Political Science, Pouvoirs, Polity, and Publius. BRIAN GALLIGAN is Professor of Political Science at the University of Melbourne. His publications include Politics of the High Court, Utah and Queensland Coal, Beyond the Protective State, and A Federal Republic: Australia's Constitutional System of Government.