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Contesting Risk, Precaution and Legitimacy: A Case Study of Lafarge

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dc.contributor.advisorWood, John Stephan
dc.creatorGordian, Savitri Vasanta
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-28T15:07:50Z
dc.date.available2015-08-28T15:07:50Z
dc.date.copyright2014-12-03
dc.date.issued2015-08-28
dc.date.updated2015-08-28T15:07:50Z
dc.degree.disciplineLaw
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameLLM - Master of Laws
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines debates about the precautionary principle in a tribunal and judicial review proceeding where environmental groups and individuals challenged a proposal to burn tires and other non-traditional fuel sources at a cement plant in Ontario, Canada. Chapter 1 explores scholarship on the precautionary principle and outlines the unique analytical contributions offered by administrative constitutionalism theory. Chapter 2 sets out the case study methodology employed by the author. Chapter 3 explains the legislative context. In chapters 4 through 9, each participant’s arguments are analyzed in relation to the two paradigms of administrative constitutionalism: Rational-Instrumentalist and Deliberative-Constitutive. This thesis establishes that administrative constitutionalism discourse dominates the construction and contestation of environmental risk; the author further argues that administrative constitutionalism’s discursive dominance has an exclusionary impact on the people, ideas and interests represented in environmental risk regulation.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/29950
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectEnvironmental law
dc.subject.keywordsPrecautionary principle
dc.subject.keywordsAdministrative constitutionalism
dc.subject.keywordsPublic participation
dc.subject.keywordsEnvironmental discourse
dc.titleContesting Risk, Precaution and Legitimacy: A Case Study of Lafarge
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US

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