Greener Pastures

Elizabeth Brubaker

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University of Toronto Press
12 May 2007

Politics & government

Series: U of T Centre for Public Management Series on Public Policy & Administration

As farms increase in size and become increasingly industrialized, the problem of agricultural pollution is gaining urgency across Canada. The response from most environmentalists and provincial governments is to push for more centralized regulation. In Greener Pastures, Elizabeth Brubaker exposes the detrimental effects of such regulatory changes, which tend to exacerbate, rather than curb, pollution.

For centuries, Brubaker explains, conflicts about farming were resolved by the parties directly involved, aided by common-law courts. The rule, 'use your own property so as not to harm another's,' fairly and effectively resolved disputes between farmers and their neighbours and curbed environmental damage. Beginning in the 1970s, however, concerns about restraints on agriculture's growth prompted governments to replace the common law with more permissive provincial statutes.

Greener Pastures chronicles the centralization of agricultural regulation and the resulting environmental harm. Brubaker focuses, specifically, on the right-to-farm laws (passed by every province in recent decades) that have freed farmers from common-law liability for the nuisances they create.

She shows how these laws have made possible an unsustainable intensification of agriculture, and argues for a decentralized, rights-based decision-making regime.

This thoroughly researched and impressively thought-out study challenges many common assumptions about environmental regulation, and proposes fresh answers to grave environmental and political questions.

By: Elizabeth Brubaker
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Edition: annotated edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 260g
ISBN: 9780772786203
ISBN 10: 0772786208
Series: U of T Centre for Public Management Series on Public Policy & Administration
Pages: 152
Publication Date: 12 May 2007
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

ForewordAcknowledgments Canada's Farmers: Salt of the Earth or Assaulting the Earth? Severing the Gold from the Dross: Using the Common Law to Curb Unsustainable Farming Practices Siding with the Farmer: The Evolution of the Right to Farm in Manitoba Raising a Stink: The Legacy of Right-to-Farm Legislation in New Brunswick A Mushrooming Problem: Agricultural Nuisances in Ontario Beyond the Right to Farm: Changing Drainage and Planning Laws to Minimize Restraints on Farming Reversing the Trend: Decentralizing the Regulation of Agricultural PollutionNotesIndex

Elizabeth Brubaker is the executive director of Environment Probe.