Despite the fact that environmental policy has become increasingly
important in Ontario politics since the end of the Second World War,
very little scholarship has been devoted to exploring either the
development of that policy or the pivotal relationship between the
environment and the province’s wider political economy. In
Blue-Green Province, Mark Winfield provides the first comprehensive
study of environmental policy in Ontario. A recognized authority in
the field, Winfield masterfully explains the formulation and
implementation of environmental policy in Canada’s most populous
province, tracing its development through the Progressive Conservative
dynasty that ruled Ontario politics from the mid-1940s to the
mid-1980s, to the dramatically different governments of Premiers
Peterson, Rae, Harris, Eves, and McGuinty. He offers particularly
trenchant coverage of the little-studied period following the
Harris’s Common Sense Revolution, examining the implications of the
1999, 2003, and 2007 elections and their subsequent governments for
Ontario’s environment and politics. Blue-Green Province is a timely,
original analysis of one of the most crucial issues in Ontario
politics today. It will be welcomed by students, scholars, and
practitioners of environmental policy, political science, economics,
history, as well as anyone with an interest in Ontario’s
environmental and economic future. With the provinces playing
increasingly dominant roles in Canadian environmental policy, it will
be compelling reading for those following the interplay of
environmental policy, politics and economic development across Canada
as well.
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The Environment and the Political Economy of Ontario
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ISBN
9780774822381
Publisert
2020
Utgave
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Utgiver
University of British Columbia Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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