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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 ""Common Sense Revolution,"" examining the implications of the 1999, 2003, and 2007 elections and their subsequent governments for Ontario's environment and politics. 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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Rock-solid scholarship that makes a very significant and original contribution to the field. This book provides a comprehensive integration of all the work on environmental policy in Ontario. To some extent, it deals with matters of life and death; less dramatically, it relates to the whole future livelihood, economic and environmental, of what was once the central engine of Canada's economy. ? Rand Dyck, Department of Political Science, Laurentian University The first full-length scholarly analysis of its kind for Ontario. The focus on the environment and the comprehensive manner in which the author links environment policy to broader currents in the political economy of the province make this study stand apart ... A very important piece of work that deserves wide dissemination. ? Gregory J. Inwood, professor of Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University The first full-length scholarly analysis of its kind for Ontario. The focus on the environment and the comprehensive manner in which the author links environment policy to broader currents in the political economy of the province make this study stand apart ... A very important piece of work that deserves wide dissemination. - Gregory J. Inwood, professor of Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University

Rock-solid scholarship that makes a very significant and original contribution to the field. This book provides a comprehensive integration of all the work on environmental policy in Ontario. To some extent, it deals with matters of life and death; less dramatically, it relates to the whole future livelihood, economic and environmental, of what was once the central engine of Canada's economy. ? Rand Dyck, Department of Political Science, Laurentian University The first full-length scholarly analysis of its kind for Ontario. The focus on the environment and the comprehensive manner in which the author links environment policy to broader currents in the political economy of the province make this study stand apart ... A very important piece of work that deserves wide dissemination. ? Gregory J. Inwood, professor of Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University

The first full-length scholarly analysis of its kind for Ontario. The focus on the environment and the comprehensive manner in which the author links environment policy to broader currents in the political economy of the province make this study stand apart ... A very important piece of work that deserves wide dissemination.<br> - Gregory J. Inwood, professor of Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University

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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 the Walkerton Inquiry as an expert witness on Ontario environmental law and policy affecting drinking water quality.

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