A Province under Pressure
Climate Change Policy in Alberta
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6238536 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brendan Boyd (0009-0007-0176-778X, MacEwan University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 183-199 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4239 • E-ISSN: 1744-9324 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0008423918000410 |
| OpenAlex | W2889996890 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 25 |
Alberta is responsible for over a third of Canada's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Reducing the country's emissions requires policies and initiatives that reduce emissions in the province. Yet the study of provincial climate change policy in Canada has largely focused on lower-emitting provinces like British Columbia, Quebec and Ontario. This article argues that Alberta is best understood as a “reluctant actor” on climate change, whose policies are influenced by decisions and pressures from outside its borders. The literature on Canadian-American environmental policy making and international policy transfer are used to explore provincial GHG targets and carbon pricing policies. The article finds that Alberta's 2002 targets and Specified Gas Emitters Regulation were determined by economic competitiveness and leakage concerns, while the adoption of new GHG targets in 2008 and a carbon tax was the result of policy transfer through political bandwagoning and the desire for reputational benefits
Business · Carbon leakage · Carbon tax · Climate change · Climate policy · Economic policy · Economics · Environmental policy · Greenhouse gas · Leakage (economics · Natural resource economics · Political science · Politics · Climate Change Policy and Economics · Policy Transfer and Learning · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Politics, proximity and the pipeline
Canadian—American Environmental Relations
Analyzing the Canada–U.S. Environmental Relationship A Multi-Faceted Approach
Who Learns What from Whom
Comparative Politics of Sub-Federal Cap-and-Trade
Trade, harmonization, and domestic autonomy in environmental policy
Environmental Policy Convergence in Canada's Fossil Fuel Provinces? Regulatory Streamlining, Impediments, and Drift
The Battle Over Oil Sands Access to Tidewater
Shifting Winds
Differing European Unemployment Rates
Developing Green Cities
Playing Defence
Advocacy Coalitions Along the Domestic‐Foreign Frontier
Political Conflict and Lesson-Drawing
How States Utilize Foreign Evidence
Sleeping with an Elephant
Systematically Pinching Ideas
Transfer agents and global networks in the ‘transnationalization’ of policy
Introduction
Beyond Kyoto
The Judicialization of Canadian Environmental Policy, 1980–1990
Racing to the Bottom? Provincial Interdependence in the Canadian Federation
A Tale of Two Taxes
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |