ABSTRACT
Global economic integration poses challenges to both national sovereignty and democratic practice. Canada is particularly well positioned to play a role in this adaptation. The broad conclusion is that Canada is well suited to playing a role in any possible transition to more democratic and balanced global-scale environmental governance. Sustainability relocates green thought from the environment into the core of what it means to have, and to create, more effective human societies and economies. Sustainability focuses first on total material requirement, the sum total of energy and physical mass extracted from nature. The distinction between well-being and prosperity within sustainability analysis places environmental policy in the heart of the contemporary debate over globalization. Canada is uniquely positioned to play an influential role in helping to establish a more sustainable global economy and thereby a more politically and economically stable world.
