Reflexive legal processes for environmental bridging organizations in the Calgary Region

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dc.contributor.authorStewart, Judy
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-17T16:52:27Z
dc.date.available2016-06-17T16:52:27Z
dc.date.issued2016-06-17
dc.description.abstractn Canadian provinces, municipalities are responsible for most land use management on private lands, and are encouraged to protect provincially owned natural resources from local land use impacts. Policy and regulatory gaps exist at the regional-scale for managing municipal land use impacts on natural resources, such as air, water and ecological resources that cross multiple municipal boundaries and jurisdictions. In the Calgary Metropolitan Region in southern Alberta, three multi-stakeholder environmental bridging organizations (the Calgary Regional Partnership, the Bow River Basin Council, and Calgary Regional Airshed Zone) emerged, connecting municipal, public and private stakeholders who shared interests in land use, watershed and airshed management, respectively. These organizations co-created natural resource management plans (co-created plans) to address transboundary and interjurisdictional issues not addressed through provincial laws or municipal bylaws. Because the organizations have no legal mandate or authority, they operate alongside the provincial environmental policy and regulatory system. The Calgary Metropolitan Region provided a demonstration context for conducting transdisciplinary research, combining emerging theories of reflexive law, environmental governance, and bridging organizations. Reflexive legal theory is deliberately applied to support and legitimize the role of environmental bridging organizations in ‘bridging’ environmental policy and regulatory gaps between provincial and municipal authorities at a regional-scale.en_US
dc.description.refereedNoen_US
dc.identifier.citation(2016) 119 Resources 1-11en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/34438
dc.identifier.issn0714-5918
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/51362
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCanadian Institute of Resources Lawen_US
dc.publisher.departmentCanadian Institute of Resources Lawen_US
dc.publisher.facultyLawen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen_US
dc.publisher.urlhttp://www.cirl.caen_US
dc.subjectreflexive legal theoryen_US
dc.subjecttransdisciplinary researchen_US
dc.subjectenvironmental governanceen_US
dc.subjectsystems theoryen_US
dc.subjectbridging organizationsen_US
dc.subjectsocial-ecological systemsen_US
dc.titleReflexive legal processes for environmental bridging organizations in the Calgary Regionen_US
dc.typejournal article
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