ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides analyses of several of the institutional and issue-based ecopolitical dilemmas affecting both policymakers and citizens in both states. It explores threat to Great Lakes bilateral management: the multilateral trade environment. The book discusses the growing need for “green energy” production on the North American power grid, and the political implications of such a development. It offers a perspective, largely from the Canadian point of view, of what directions policy might, can, and should take given the context of globalization. The book also provides vision for a democratic sustainability, as well as more specific guidelines that should guide Canadian environmental diplomacy and policy, especially in the continental context. It argues that claims that global warming will make the Northwest Passage passable on a yearly basis – and thus presents a threat to Canadian sovereignty – are overblown.
