Overview
- Offers insight into multi-territorial governance issues and challenges
- Studies the unique role of public and private entities in the planning of Gatineau Park
- Provides policy-makers and legislators recommendations grounded in empirical evidence on how to better protect this near-urban wilderness area
Part of the book series: Local and Urban Governance (LUG)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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This book comprehensively describes the history of Gatineau Park, from the first proposals for a “national park” in the early 1900s to the governance issues in the present period, and it highlights the issues concerning the planning and governance of this unique near-urban ecological area. The 34,500-hectare Gatineau Park is an ecologically diverse wilderness area near the cities of Ottawa (Canada’s national capital) and Gatineau. Gatineau Park is planned and managed as the “Capital’s Conservation Park” by the federal government, specifically the National Capital Commission (NCC).
This monograph examines numerous governmental and non-governmental actors that are engaged in the governance of a near-urban wilderness area. Unlike Canada’s national parks, Gatineau Park’s administration involves all three levels of government (federal, provincial, and four municipalities). This book is the first to document the relations among the public and private entities, and is one of onlya handful of studies concerning the governance of Canada’s National Capital Region (NCR), which is relatively unique in the literature on federal capitals. Of particular interest to students of governance will be the examination of federal-provincial relations, as the Governments of Canada and Quebec have had a notoriously strained relationship. As the first governance study of Gatineau Park, the monograph will provide readers with insight into the significance of non-state actors, showing the range of competencies that public and private groups deploy in their negotiations with NCC planners, policymakers, park managers, local and federal politicians.Authors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Governance of Near-Urban Conservation Areas
Book Subtitle: Lessons from the Conflicts Surrounding Gatineau Park near Ottawa, Canada
Authors: Michael Lait
Series Title: Local and Urban Governance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64440-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64439-0Published: 23 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64442-0Published: 23 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-64440-6Published: 22 March 2021
Series ISSN: 2524-5449
Series E-ISSN: 2524-5457
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 291
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Governance and Government, Public Administration, Environmental Politics