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"The Canadian Environment in Political Context uses a non-technical approach to introduce environmental politics to undergraduate readers. First published in 2015, this revised edition features expanded chapters on wildlife, water, pollution, land, and energy. Beginning with a brief synopsis of environmental quality across Canada, this text moves on to examine political institutions and policymaking, the history of environmentalism in Canada, and other crucial issues including Indigenous peoples and the environment, as well as Canada's North. Enhanced with case studies at the end of each chapter, key words, and a comprehensive glossary, Olive addresses the major environmental concerns and challenges that Canada faces in the twenty-first century. "--

AbstractWhat is the role of intergovernmental institutions and transnational policy networks in the management of North American natural resources? The articles presented in this special volume provide some answers to this question and contribute to an ongoing discussion about bilateral and trilateral resource management. This concluding article pulls together the major themes, questions, answers, and avenues for further research presented in the special volume. There is broad consensus that post‐bureaucratic interactive agencies are developing in bi‐ and trilateral resource management but notable policy outcomes are lagging. Climate change is hypothesized to be a test of Northern American governance because already we see this formidable issue further cementing fragmented bilateralism.

Introduction: Theorizing about Provinces as Provincial Laboratories for Policy Diffusion and Transfer / Brendan Boyd -- Parentage Policy Diffusion in the Canadian Provinces / Dave Snow -- Interjurisdictional Transfer of Hydraulic Fracturing Regulations among Canadian Provinces / Heather Millar -- Endangered Species Legislation in Canada: Convergence that Matters / Andrea Olive -- Competing, Learning, or Emulating? Policy Transfer and Sales Tax Reform / Matthew Lesch -- Carbon Pricing Policies and Emissions from Aviation: Patterns of Convergence and Divergence / Laurel Besco -- Policy Replication: The Case of Canadian Cannabis Legalization / Jared J. Wesley -- Conclusion: (Re)Theorizing Diffusion and Transfer in Canada's Federal System / Andrea Olive and Brendan Boyd.

The International Joint Commission : the promise and limits of an ambitious model / Stephen Brooks -- Transboundary water management and governance in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Basin / Daniel Mcfarlane and Noah Hall -- Multi-jurisdictional governance of the shared Great Lakes fishery : can a non-binding agreement work? / Marc Gaden and Charles Krueger -- Transboundary environmental governance and water pollution in the Great Lakes Region : recent progress and future challenges / Carolyn Johns -- Transboundary water governance in the Prairie Region : development institutions in a conservation age / B. Timothy Heinmiller -- Transboundary environmental governance in the Pacific West / Donald K. Alpers -- Canada/U.S. transboundary energy governance / Stephen Bird and Martin D. Heintzelman -- Canada-United States relations and a low-carbon economy for North America? / Debora L. VanNijinatten and Marcela Lopez-Vallejo -- Lessons learned and new applications / Andrea Olive.

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Online learning in postsecondary institutions has increased dramatically across the United States and Canada. Although research demonstrates the benefits of online learning for student success, instructors face challenges in facilitating communication, delivering course content, and navigating outdated and cumbersome technologies. The authors examine the use of a free third-party platform called Slack as a tool to facilitate better communication among students and faculty, enable the delivery of diverse and dynamic course content, and reach students in an online course that supports both independent and collaborative learning. The authors present a case study of Slack's use in an online second-year environmental politics course taught at a large Canadian public university. There is a significant and growing literature on how to best engage students in online learning, including active and social learning models as promising approaches to digital teaching. The authors argue that using collaborative social technologies such as Slack—which both replicates and integrates the online and social-media environments that students already inhabit—can assist faculty in meeting their pedagogical goals online. The article documents the instructors' experience in managing discussion and involving students in their online learning through active learning exercises. Best practices are examined.