The constitution of the environmental emergency / Jocelyn Stacey.
2018
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Author
Title
The constitution of the environmental emergency / Jocelyn Stacey.
Published
Ofxord, UK : Hart Publishing, 2018.
Copyright
©2018
Call Number
K3585 .S865 2018
ISBN
9781509920273 hardcover ; alkaline paper
1509920277 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9781509920297 (ePDF)
9781509920280 (ePub)
1509920277 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9781509920297 (ePDF)
9781509920280 (ePub)
Description
xix, 273 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1004841537
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Stacey, Jocelyn. Constitution of the environmental emergency. Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2018 9781509920280 (DLC) 2017055292
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Purchased from the income of the Beinecke Fund
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Beinecke Fund
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
v
List of Acronyms
xi
Table of Legislation and Cases
xiii
Introduction
1
I.
Methodology, Terminology and Context
5
II.
Outline of the Book
9
pt. I
Environmental Emergency
1.
Concept of the Environmental Emergency
15
I.
Environmental Emergency
17
A.
Schmittian Emergencies
17
B.
Environmental Emergency
20
II.
Failing Schmitt's Challenge
26
A.
Extra-Legal Approach to Emergency Powers
27
B.
Accommodation Approach to Emergency Powers
29
III.
Formal Conception of the Rule of Law
34
IV.
Conclusion
38
2.
Environmental Reform: The Problem of Discretion in Environmental Law
39
I.
Environmental Reform Position
41
II.
Black and Grey Holes in Canadian Environmental Law
45
A.
Legal Black Holes: Environmental Regulations
47
B.
Legal Grey Holes: Ineffective Substantive Constraints
52
III.
Impoverished Environmental Reform Solutions
54
A.
Environmental Rules
55
B.
Independent Expert Decision-Makers
56
IV.
Conclusion
60
3.
Environmental Governance: The Problem of Law in Environmental Law
62
I.
Old and New Governance
65
A.
Environmental Emergency and Legal Formalism
65
B.
Law/Governance Distinction
69
II.
Three Examples of Environmental Governance
70
A.
Results-Based Regulation
71
B.
Ecosystem-Based Management
75
C.
Transnational Certification
79
D.
Conclusion
84
III.
Reclaiming the Rule of Law
85
IV.
Conclusion
88
pt. II
Responding to the Environmental Emergency
4.
Requirement of Public Justification
93
I.
Responding to Schmitt's Challenge
95
A.
Public Justification in Canadian Administrative Law
96
B.
Public Justification During Emergencies
100
II.
Public Justification: A Democratic Conception of the Rule of Law
104
III.
Conclusion
111
5.
Institutional Design: Reforming Forest Practices
113
I.
Institutional Dimensions of Public Justification
114
II.
Forest Practices Board and the Mountain Pine Beetle Response
116
A.
Limitations of Adjudication
117
B.
Ensuring a Publicly Justified Emergency Response
121
III.
Forest Practices Board and Its Governance Response
125
A.
Role of the Forest Practices Board Under the FRPA
125
B.
Democratic Experimentalism
129
C.
Ensuring Public Justification of Forest Stewardship Plans
131
i.
Constitutive Law
132
ii.
Substantive Law
133
iii.
Transitive Law
135
IV.
Conclusion
136
6.
Pipelines and Principles: Reasonableness and Fairness in Environmental Law
137
I.
Pipelines, the NEB and Their Problems
138
A.
Fairness
142
B.
Reasonableness
144
C.
Independence
146
II.
In Defence of Environmental Principles
149
A.
Sustainable Development
151
B.
Precautionary Principle
157
C.
Environmental Principles and the Common Law
165
III.
Publicly Justifying the Pipelines
167
A.
Fairness
169
i.
Written Hearing
169
ii.
Restricted Public Participation
172
B.
Reasonableness
175
i.
Scope of Assessment
175
ii.
Disaster Planning
177
C.
Independence
179
i.
Regulatory Capture
179
ii.
Independence from Government
181
IV.
Conclusion
182
7.
Reasoning Adequately: Wind Turbine Risks and Benefits
184
I.
Confluence of Environmental Factors in Wind Turbine Development
185
II.
Method and Purpose of Reasonableness
188
III.
Reasoning Adequately about Wind Turbine Approvals
192
A.
Plain Meaning and the Precautionary Principle
193
B.
Precautionary Reasoning
195
C.
Reasoning Adequately and Earning Deference
202
IV.
Conclusion
205
8.
Rule of Law and the Right to a Healthy Environment
207
I.
Case for a Charter Right to a Healthy Environment
210
A.
Claims
211
B.
Dichotomies
214
i.
Process/Substance Dichotomy and Environmental Rights Adjudication
215
ii.
Positive/Negative Rights Dichotomy in Environmental Rights Enforcement
218
II.
Environmental Protection and Section 7 Adjudication
221
A.
Section 7 of the Charter
222
B.
Process/Substance Dichotomy in Section 7 Jurisprudence
223
C.
Positive/Negative Rights Dichotomy in Section 7 Jurisprudence
226
III.
Common Law Constitutional Rights Adjudication
229
A.
Bright Lines and the Rule of Law
229
B.
Right to Public Justification and the Right to a Healthy Environment
235
IV.
Conclusion
240
Bibliography
245
Index
265