Forestry 415Sustainable Forest Policy
OverviewGeorge Hoberg
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Today’s Agenda
Foundations Domain, concepts Categories of
forest policy Analytical
framework Policy cycle
Course Materials
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Course domain in context
Sustainability policiesPolicies for natural resource management▪Renewable natural resources
▪ForestsBC
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Core Concepts
actions, policies, governance actions – behavioural
actions▪ choices by firms, consumers▪ produced consequences for
values of concern policies – rules produced
by government that influence actions
governance – who decides the rules
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Forest Policy Defined
a purposive course of action or inaction followed by government in dealing with a matter of concern regarding the use of forest resources
conserve 50 per cent of the natural range of old growth forests
Legally established Central and North Coast Amendment Order
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Sustainable Forest Policy
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Sustainable Forest Management
“Our goal is to maintain the long-term health of Canada’s forest ecosystems, for the benefit of all living things, and for the social, cultural, environmental and economic well-being of all Canadians now and in the future.”
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1992 Canada Forest Accord, as quoted in Luckert, Haley, Hoberg, Policies for Sustainably Managing Canada’s Forests p. 20
Forest Policy Objectives
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Forest Policy Objectives
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Forest Policy Challenges
Conflict of values, interest Spatial distribution of interest
esp rural vs urban Long time horizons Factual uncertainty
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Categories of Forest Policy
Tenure – allocating government-owned timber
Stumpage -- pricing
Rate of harvest – allowable annual cut (AAC)
Land Use – zoning for different values (logging, conservation, etc)
Forest Practices – regulating harvesting
Emergent areas and overlaps (energy, carbon)
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Analytical Framework: Forces at work in natural resources policy
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policies
actions
consequences
Analytical Framework: Forces at work in natural resources policy
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environment
governance
markets
policies
actions
consequences
Analytical Framework – Environment and Markets Environment
Biophysical environment Resource characteristics
Markets Prices Exchange rates Supply and demand Trade restrictions
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Analytical Framework - Governance
political dimension who decides who participates
vertical dimension – at what level of government
regulatory dimension – with what instruments
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Theme
Policies are produced through governance processes, influenced by environment and markets.
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Policy Cycle Model
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Agenda-Setting
Policy Formulation
Decisionmaking
Policy Implementation
Monitoring and Evaluation
Today’s Agenda
Foundations Domain, concepts Categories of
forest policy Analytical
framework Policy cycle
Course Materials Critical Thinking
assignment
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Class composition
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class composition
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Course materials
Syllabus Readings Assignments
exams simulation
Participation Connect Website
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How to thrive in exams
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Overview reading for today
Benjamin Cashore, George Hoberg, Michael Howlett, Jeremy Rayner, and Jeremy Wilson, In Search of Sustainability: Forest Policy in British Columbia in the 1990s, (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2001), pp. 3-7, 17, 20-29 (reading packet)
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George Hoberg
Born American; Canadian citizen since 1992
BS UC Berkeley in Political Economy of Natural Resources
PhD from MIT in political science
UBC department of political science 1987-2000
UBC Faculty of Forestry since then
out of closet climate hawk – faculty coordinator of UBCC350
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Teaching style
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Today’s Agenda
Foundations Domain, concepts Categories of
forest policy Analytical
framework Policy cycle
Course Materials Critical Thinking
assignment
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Critical Thinking assignment
Daniel Kahan, “What Is Motivated Reasoning and How Does It Work?, Science and Religion Today May 4, 2011.
Mark Hume, “The fight to protect what’s left of old-growth forests,” Globe and Mail, March 17, 2013
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Motivated reasoning
motivated cognition: unconscious tendency to fit processing of information to conclusions that suit some end or goal biased information search: seeking out (or
disproportionally attending to) evidence that is congruent rather than incongruent with the motivating goal
biased assimilation: crediting and discrediting evidence selectively in patterns that promote rather than frustrate the goal
identity-protective cognition: reacting dismissively to information the acceptance of which would experience dissonance or anxiety.
Daniel Kahan, “What Is Motivated Reasoning and How Does It Work?, Science and Religion Today May 4, 2011.
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Critical Thinking Assignment for Tuesday
Read the Hume article Write down and bring to class next
Thursday: 1 important argument in the article Value(s) underlying that argument Factual assertion, if any, behind the
argument Max 15 minutes of “research” to fact-
check
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Tuesday
Guest Speaker – Patrick Bixler: Community Forests in the Context of BC’s Tenure System
Reading: Ministry of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resource Operations, Area-Based Tenure Discussion Paper. 2014. http://engage.gov.bc.ca/foresttenures/files/2014/03/Forest_Tenure_Discuss_Paper.pdf
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