Policy Pathways: Transitioning to Sustainable Power Generation in Saskatchewan
This paper reviews power generation law and policy in Saskatchewan, Canada, over the last century to the present as a key component of a socio-technical regime using the theory of transition management. Understanding the legacy of law and policy is important given sustainability concerns and the realization that significant changes will be required in trajectories of development that put less strain on natural capital and ecosystem services. This issue is especially germane as Saskatchewan considers the addition of nuclear power generation into its predominately coal-powered portfolio.
In this paper, we examine the critical relationship between governance strategies at the macro social and political landscape level and the particular policy mix that is found in the socio-technical regime of power generation in Saskatchewan. This exercise is informed by transition management theory and also the alternative explanations of path dependency. Switch points critical to the trajectory of power generation development are identified and used to illustrate and assess the plausibility of these theoretical concepts. Current landscape developments in Saskatchewan, including the emergence of concerns for human-induced climate change, the development of wind power and even the reemergence of nuclear power generation as a policy option, may facilitate a transition towards greater sustainability. However, the alternative path of maintaining existing arrangements through incremental adjustment still remains open.
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| Autor: | Margot Hurlbert  Kathleen McNutt Jeremy Rayner | |
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