Pursuing Credibility Through Standardization:  The Potential for Canadian Product Category Rules to Enhance the Comparability of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Claims of Alberta’s Oil Sands

Rainville, Anne

Pursuing Credibility Through Standardization: The Potential for Canadian Product Category Rules to Enhance the Comparability of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Claims of Alberta’s Oil Sands

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dc.contributor.advisor	Hawkins, Richard
dc.contributor.advisor	Bergerson, Joule
dc.contributor.author	Rainville, Anne
dc.date.accessioned	2013-05-01T16:25:28Z
dc.date.available	2013-06-10T07:00:47Z
dc.date.issued	2013-05-01
dc.date.submitted	2013	en
dc.description.abstract	The accuracy, transparency, and comparability of life cycle estimates are central to the controversy over the use of life cycle assessment to support policy. This thesis examines the potential for a Canadian formal voluntary standard to create product category rules for crude oil products. Such a standard would be developed at the Canadian Standards Association, and may enhance the credibility and improve the comparability of greenhouse gas emissions claims of Alberta’s oil sands products. A case study is developed as a narrative of key stakeholders in the proposed standard’s development, and interview findings are compared with hypotheses derived from standards literature. Challenges facing consensus in life cycle assessment were found to parallel those facing standards development organizations. Novel findings indicate widespread disagreement with the use of life cycle assessment to support regulation, substantial differences in the desired prescriptiveness of the standard, and a heavy focus placed on its revision post-implementation.	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Rainville, A. (2013). Pursuing Credibility Through Standardization: The Potential for Canadian Product Category Rules to Enhance the Comparability of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Claims of Alberta’s Oil Sands (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/27485	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/27485
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11023/669
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher.faculty	Arts
dc.publisher.faculty	Graduate Studies
dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary	en
dc.publisher.place	Calgary	en
dc.rights	University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subject	Political Science--International Law and Relations
dc.subject	Sociology--Organizational
dc.subject	Energy
dc.subject.classification	Life Cycle Assessment	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Product Category Rules	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Standardization	en_US
dc.subject.classification	oil sands	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Consensus	en_US
dc.title	Pursuing Credibility Through Standardization: The Potential for Canadian Product Category Rules to Enhance the Comparability of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Claims of Alberta’s Oil Sands
dc.type	master thesis
thesis.degree.discipline	Communications Studies
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Calgary
thesis.degree.name	Master of Arts (MA)
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