TY - GEN T1 - Greener pastures : decentralizing the regulation of agricultural pollution T2 - University of Toronto Centre for Public Management monograph series. A1 - Brubaker, Elizabeth, 1958- LA - English PP - Toronto ; Buffalo PB - University of Toronto Press YR - 2007 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn608408559 AB - 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. OP - 153 CN - KE3619 .B78 2007 SN - 9781442684393 SN - 1442684399 SN - 9780772786210 SN - 0772786216 SN - 9780772786203 SN - 0772786208 KW - Agricultural pollution : Law and legislation : Canada. KW - Agricultural laws and legislation : Canada. KW - Nuisances : Canada. KW - Agricultural pollution : Canada. KW - Agriculture and state : Canada. KW - Agriculture and politics : Canada. KW - Droit rural : Canada. KW - Pollution agricole : Canada. KW - Politique agricole : Canada. KW - Agriculture et politique : Canada. KW - Nuisances priveĢes : Canada. KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Public Affairs & Administration. KW - LAW : Military. KW - Agriculture and state KW - Agriculture and politics KW - Agricultural laws and legislation KW - Agricultural pollution KW - Agricultural pollution : Law and legislation KW - Nuisances KW - Canada ER -