Cooking up Collaboration: The Toronto Food Policy Council, the Vancouver Food Policy Council, and the Emergence of Civic Capacity

• Main Author: Loewen, Kassandra
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholarship@Western 2015
• Subjects: Food policy councils; civic capacity; Canadian cities; collaboration networks; urban regime theory; Arts and Humanities; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Lookout; First Nations
• Online Access: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/lajur/vol1/iss1/9

In the urban context, cooperation between disparate groups is necessary to accomplish many political and social objectives. Clarence Stone’s urban regime theory describes how governmental and non-governmental actors collaborate in the pursuit of a common goal in American municipalities. Civic capaci...