Governance of near-urban conservation areas : lessons from the conflicts surrounding Gatineau Park near Ottawa, Canada / Michael Lait.
Lait, Michael, author
2021
F1054.G25
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Title Governance of near-urban conservation areas : lessons from the conflicts surrounding Gatineau Park near Ottawa, Canada / Michael Lait.
Author Lait, Michael, author
ISBN 9783030644406 (electronic bk.)
3030644405 (electronic bk.)
9783030644413 (print)
3030644413
9783030644420 (print)
3030644421
3030644391
9783030644390
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64440-6
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2021]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxi, 291 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-64440-6 doi
Call Number F1054.G25
Dewey Decimal Classification 333.78/30971
Summary 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 only a 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
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 21, 2021).
Series Local and urban governance, 2524-5449
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National park at the doorstep of the capital
The Gatineau Hills clear-cutting controversy
The creation of "Gatineau Park"
Park governance under the Federal District Commission
Sparking the private lands issue
Park governance under the National Capital Commission
An activist Chair governs
Planning, expropriations, planning
The McInnis scare
Protecting the park's status quo
Ongoing campaign for legislation and issue flare-ups
Conclusion.

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