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ISBN: 9781552215036-19

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Environmental Reporting and Information Sources

From: Environmental Law, 5/e

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Discusses the challenge of climate change and the policy and legal responses that Canada can take. This chapter touches upon the causes and consequences of climate change, federal climate change initiatives such as the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), provincial responses to climate change, municipal actions and climate change adaptation.

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Jamie Benidickson

Jamie Benidickson is a member of the Centre for Environmental Law and Global Sustainability at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, where he teaches environmental law and administrative law. He is the author of Levelling the Lake: Transboundary Resource Management in the Lake of the Woods Watershed (UBC Press, 2019). His previous publications include The Temagami Experience: Recreation, Resources and Aboriginal Rights in the Northern Ontario Wilderness (University of Toronto Press, 1989), Idleness, Water and a Canoe: Reflections on Paddling for Pleasure (University of Toronto Press, 1997), and The Culture of Flushing: A Social and Legal History of Sewage (UBC Press, 2007).