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Governance of near-urban conservation areas : lessons from the conflicts surrounding Gatineau Park near Ottawa, Canada / Michael Lait.

9783030644406 (electronic bk.)
3030644405 (electronic bk.)
9783030644413 (print)
3030644413
9783030644420 (print)
3030644421
3030644391
9783030644390

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2021]

English

1 online resource (xxi, 291 pages) : illustrations (some color)

10.1007/978-3-030-64440-6 doi

F1054.G25

333.78/30971

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

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