Environmental assessment reformists, on the other hand, prefer indeterminate power - a shared and inclusive distribution of decision-making power - and determinate substantive legal guidelines. They also prefer indeterminate substantive guidelines, writing as much discretionary power into the law as possible and leaving open the possibility of strict environmental protections in general while allowing for exceptions in the specific. My observation has been that stuck between growth imperatives, vested interests, democratic expectations, and a growing recognition of impending environmental crisis, governments and companies like TransCanada prefer determinate power relations: a clear and exclusive allocation of decision-making authority. The controversy opened up a wide range of questions, such as: Who had power to decide? Which jurisdictions applied? How should democratic participation be delineated? Who was the public that the regulator purportedly spoke for? How were decisions justified? What counted as evidence? In other words, it was as much about which projects might be considered as being in the "national" interest as it was about the procedural and epistemological channels through which this determination should be made. In this context, the contest has been less about substantive deliberation than infrastructural determination, as normative decisional frameworks became further unsettled. Rather than provide certainty to proponents, the changes further undermined the decisional infrastructure and distribution of constitutional authority. Sweeping changes made to the legislative and regulatory framework by the Conservative federal government in 2012 were intended to expedite their approval but appear to have had a contrary effect. In the contemporary political and environmental climate, pipeline projects have had a rough go of it. As such, it is an investigation into how power, sovereignty, and agency were mobilized in the negotiation of a pipeline project in Canada. This thesis is about the controversies that engulfed TransCanada's Energy East pipeline project from the moment it emerged into the public sphere in 2013, and which led to its ultimate demise in 2017. So far an unmet challenge is making sense of a great deal of data and information obtained in the follow-up phase of the EIA process and transforming it into knowledge used to improve both efficiency and effectiveness of an agency's work. Three drivers were identified that have steered the implementation of KM initiatives: (i) successive managers' understandings that EIA does create knowledge (ii) a concern with consistency and reproducibility of recommendations (iii) improving agencies' efficiency, alongside one additional incentive: curbing the deleterious effects of staff turnover. In a survey of KM initiatives in twoQuébec government agencies, the Environmental Assessment Department and the Environment Public Hearings Bureau, knowledge repositories were mapped and officers were invited to reply to a questionnaire enquiring about the repositories' usefulness.Their perception about knowledge creation within each agency was assessed. This workshop does not assume any previous knowledge of MAXQDA or any other qualitative data analysis software.Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is a knowledge intensive activity that benefits from a highly structured approach to knowledge management (KM). In this workshop, we’ll work towards an understanding of MAXQDA capabilities and explore how this tool can be used in your research plan. Within an MAXQDA file, you can upload and analyze text, multimedia, or survey data in a way that helps you answer your research question. MAXQDA is a software for conducting qualitative and mixed methods analysis. A recording of the workshop from Fall 2022 is already available online. You may choose to attend in Library 314 or via Zoom. This workshop will be offered in a hybrid format.Monday, March 6 at 12pm | Register for this workshop.Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Accessibility.
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