POLS 3370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Walkerton E. Coli Outbreak, Precautionary Principle, Corporate Behaviour
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Pols 3370 environmental politics & governance notes october 22: environmental politics and governance. Administrative rationalism part 2: environmental policy instruments in. Canada: today"s class, where do we put canada"s nuclear waste, the precautionary principle, cost-benefit analysis. Policy integration: the walkerton tragedy, the courts (next week, cost-benefit analysis. 4: where do we put canada"s nuclear waste, the shelf life of nuclear waste is very long. Since 2002 there has been an effort of the federal government to find permanent places to store nuclear waste. Tools employed by governments to change the behaviour of individuals, communities and organizations in ways needed to achieve desired policy outcomes. The means by which governments move from the identification of problems and the changes in behaviour needed to address them, to the actual implementation of policy responses. : winfield, 2009: chapter 4, types of policy instruments. Informational instruments: regulatory instruments, economic instruments, voluntary instruments, education and outreach.