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Mark Winfield - Blue-Green Province: The Environment and the Political Economy of Ontario - 9780774822367 - V9780774822367
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Blue-Green Province: The Environment and the Political Economy of Ontario

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Description for Blue-Green Province: The Environment and the Political Economy of Ontario Hardback. Blue-Green Province provides the first comprehensive study of environmental policy in Ontario and explores what lessons on the future of environmental and economic policy in Canada might be learned from this province's experience. Num Pages: Illustrations. BIC Classification: JP; RNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 576.

The environment has emerged as an increasingly important issue in Ontario politics since the end of World War II, yet it has been the subject of surprisingly little scholarship. With Blue-Green Province, Mark Winfield addresses this gap.

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 analysis of the little-studied period following the Harris’s ... Read more

A timely, original analysis, Blue-Green Province should be required reading for anyone with an interest in the interplay of environmental policy, politics, and economic development in Ontario and across Canada.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774822367
SKU
V9780774822367
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Mark Winfield
Mark S. Winfield is an associate professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. He was policy and program director with the Pembina Institute from 2001 to 2007, and director of research at the Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy from 1992 to 2001. He has written numerous articles on environmental law and policy, and testified at ... Read more

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