Politics of water pollution control: a case study of the formation of the Canada Water Act, Part I: Comprehensive Water Resource Management; Part II: Nutrient Control
Over the period from 1970 to 1972, the Canadian government enacted seven pieces of legislation to manage and control water resources and water quality at the national level. The purpose of these papers is to present an inside view of the formation of the Canada Water Act as it evolved from its earliest conception as a multi-purpose water development strategy in the late 1950's into a comprehensive water resource and water quality management strategy in the late 1960's and early 1970's, under the impetus of unprecedented public demand for government action to protect the environment. In the first paper (Part I), the formation of Parts I and II of the Canada Water Act which deal with Comprehensive Water Resources Management and Water Quality Management respectively are examined. The second paper (Part II) is concerned solely with the Nutrient Control provisions included under Part III of the Act. These papers provide the first public account of the political aspects of a large-scale study of the socio-political response to water pollution problems in Canada over the period from 1945 to 1972. This study, carried out under the auspices of the Canadian Ministry of State for Urban Affairs, was completed in 1974. These papers complement earlier papers on the role of environmental pressure groups (Schatzow, 1974), the mass media (Parlour and Schatzow, 1978; Parlour, 1980), environmental specialists and the development of environmental information (Parlour, 1978) which have been published since 1974; a report on the complete study was published by the author in 1977.
- Research Organization:
- King Alfred's Coll., Winchester, England
- OSTI ID:
- 6444120
- Journal Information:
- J. Environ. Manage.; (United States), Vol. 12:1
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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