Governing Urban Economies is the first detailed scholarly examination of relations among governmental and community-based actors in Canadian city-regions. Comparing patterns of municipal-community relations and federal-provincial interactions across city-regions, this volume tracks the ways in...

Many governments provide subsidies to shift from ‘dirty' but cheap fossil fuels to ‘clean' but expensive renewable energy. Recently, public incentives in the renewable energy sector have been challenged through both dispute settlement procedures of the World Trade Organization and domestic...

This paper examines the role of economic instruments for promoting renewable energy in the Canadian residential sector, with a focus on micro-wind and solar photovoltaics. The paper examines three policy instruments in particular, namely: installation grants (federal), feed-in tariffs...