POL250Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Environmental Politics, Burrowing Owl
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Who gets what, when, and how? (laswell) Basically everything and anything can become political as long as humans are involved. Is how we distribute resources/rights to people (citizens) without using violence. How we govern people who effect the environment. Resources policy is regulation of the how, when, and where of primary resource extraction. Oil is a resource that is produced by nature and used by humans. Canada has policies and regulations on oil . Environmental policy is a policy aimed at protecting the environment as a result of development, resource extraction or consumption.