Federalism and the Environment: Environmental Policymaking in Australia, Canada, and the United States

This edited volume is a comprehensive examination of the legal framework in which environmental policy is fashioned in the major English-speaking federations--the United States, Canada, and Australia. The need for national solutions to environmental problems emerged long after the largest share of governmental power was allotted to states or provinces. This volume attempts to solve the paradox of how a country can have effective laws protecting the environment, vigorously enforced, when legislative and administrative powers are divided between two tiers of government.

KENNETH M. HOLLAND is Professor of Political Science the University of Memphis.F. L. MORTON is Professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary.BRIAN GALLIGAN is Professor of Political Science at the University of Melbourne.