Blue-Green Province

The Environment and the Political Economy of Ontario

By Mark S. Winfield
Categories: Environmental Law, Environmental Politics & Policy, Environmental Protection & Preservation, Canadian Political Science
Publisher: UBC Press
Hardcover : 9780774822367, 296 pages, January 2012
Paperback : 9780774822374, 296 pages, July 2012
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774822381, 296 pages, January 2012

Table of contents

1 Introduction

2 The Environment and the Dynasty

3 The Environment and Ontario’s Quiet Revolution

4 Sustainable Development, Restructuring, and Recession

5 The Environment and the Common Sense Revolution

6 From Walkerton to McGuinty

7 The Dynasty Redux?

8 Conclusions

Epilogue: The October 2011 Election and Its Implications for Ontario’s Environment and Economy

Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index

The first comprehensive study of environmental policy in Ontario, by the recognized authority in the field.

Description

In Blue-Green Province, Mark Winfield takes a long-overdue look at the crucial relationship between Ontario’s environmental policy and its politics and economy. Covering the period from the Progressive Conservative “dynasty” that dominated Ontario politics from the mid-1940s to the mid-1980s, through the subsequent Peterson, Rae, Harris, Eves, and McGuinty governments, Winfield offers a trenchant analysis of the effects of these administrations’ dramatically different ideologies on Ontario’s environment and politics. Timely and original, Blue-Green Province is the first comprehensive study of environmental policy in Ontario. It will be welcomed by anyone with an interest in Ontario’s environmental and economic future.