Syllabus

Schedule of Topics and Readings 2011

(subject to change with notice)

September 6 (no class), 8 Overview: course framework – environment, markets, and governance; critical thinking

• 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)
• Daniel Kahan, “What Is Motivated Reasoning and How Does It Work?, Science and Religion Today May 4, 2011. http://www.scienceandreligiontoday.com/2011/05/04/what-is-motivated-reasoning-and-how-does-it-work/
• Suzanne Simard and Kathy Lewis, “New policies needed to save our forests,” Vancouver Sun April 8, 2011. http://forestindustries.eu/content/new-policies-needed-save-our-forests
• Sharon Glover, “Forests require flexible management: t’s unfair to blame provincial legislation for environmental problems.” Vancouver Sun April 26, 2011. http://www.abcfp.ca/about_us/news_events/documents/20110426_Glover.pdf

September 13, 15 History and policy legacies; mountain pine beetle epidemic; Great Bear Rainforest case

• David Haley and Harry Nelson, “Has the time come to rethink Canada’s Crown forest tenure systems?” Forestry Chronicle 83, no. 5 (2007):  630-41. (on line through UBC library in the journal site) or go here http://pubs.cif-ifc.org/doi/pdf/10.5558/tfc83630-5
• George Hoberg, “Bringing the Market Back In:  BC Natural Resource Policies During the Campbell Years,” in British Columbia Politics and Government, Micheal Howlett, Dennis Pilon, and Tracy Sommerville, eds, (Toronto: Edmond Montgomery, 2010), pp. 331-43, 349-51. (reading packet)
• Merran Smith, Art Sterritt, and Patrick Armstrong, “From Conflict to Collaboration:  The Story of the Great Bear Rainforest.” May 2007. http://forestethics.org/downloads/WWFpaper.pdf

September 20, 22 Government: the fundamentals of BC government; evolving forest sector governance

• Normal Ruff, “Executive Dominance: Cabinet and the Office of the Premier in British Columbia,” in British Columbia Politics and Government, Micheal Howlett, Dennis Pilon, and Tracy Sommerville, eds, (Toronto: Edmond Montgomery, 2010), pp. 205-16. (reading packet)
• Marty Luckert, David Haley, and George Hoberg, Policies for Sustainably Managing Canada’s Forests: Provincial Tenure, Stumpage Fees, and Forest Practices, (Vancouver:  UBC Press, 2011), Chapter 1 (in reading packet)

September 27, 29 Interest groups: strategies and resources

• Sarah Pralle, Branching Out, Digging In:  Environmental Advocacy and Agenda-Setting. Washington, DC:  Georgetown University Press, 2005), Chapter 1 (pp 13-31). (reading packet)
• Douglas MacDonald, Business and Environmental Politics in Canada, (Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2007), pp. 47-56 (reading packet)

October 4, 6 First Nations: BC’s New Relationship and the revolution in governance

• *NEW revised reading: Jason Forsyth, George Hoberg, and Laura Bird, “From Economic Concessions to Changing Governance: Shifting Strategies for Accommodating First Nations in Forest Policy, 2001-09”  (Final submission – ForsythHobergBird june 3 2010)
• Supreme Court of Canada, Haida Nation v. British Columbia (Minister of Forests), Supreme Court of Canada November 2004 http://scc.lexum.org/en/2004/2004scc73/2004scc73.pdf

October 11, 13, 18 International context: the relevance of international conventions; forest certification; market-based strategies by environmental movements; the softwood lumber trade conflict and how the US constrains BC domestic policy sovereignty

• Graeme Auld, L. H. Gulbrandsen, and C. McDermott, “Certification Schemes and the Impact on Forests and Forestry,” Annual Review of Environment and Resources (2008) 33 (1):187-211. On line through UBC library http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.environ.33.013007.103754?cookieSet=1
• Daowei Zhang, The Softwood Lumber War:  Politics, Economics, and the Long U.S.-Canadian Trade Dispute, (Washington, DC:  RFF Press, 2007), Chapter 11.
• Jay Makarenko, “The Canada-US Softwood Lumber Dispute,” Feature Article, Mapleleafweb.com, posted June 10, 2008

October 20 Midterm

October 25, 27 Policy Formulation: the foundations of policy analysis; stakeholder engagement

• Carl Patton and  Sawicki, Basic Methods of Policy Analysis and Planning, (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1993), 2^nd Edition, pp. 52-65.
• Office of the Auditor General of British Columbia, Removing Private Land from Tree Farm Licences 6, 19 & 25: Protecting the Public Interest? July 2008, pp. 1-27. http://www.bcauditor.com/pubs/2008/report5/removing-private-land-tree-farm-licences-6-19-25-protecti
• Drea Cullen et al, “Collaborative Planning in Complex Stakeholder Environments: An Evaluation of a Two-Tiered Collaborative Planning Model,” Society & Natural Resources 2 (2010): 332–350 get through UBC library site)

November 1, 3 Dilemmas in policy design:  choice of instrument, making trade-offs, optimal precision of rules

• George Hoberg, “The 6 Percent Solution: The Forest Practices Code, in Cashore et al, In Search of Sustainability, (UBC Press, 2001), pp. 69-75.
• George Hoberg, Finding the Right Balance Report of Stakeholder Consultations on A Results-Based Forest and Range Practices Regime for British Columbia, (Victoria:  BC Ministry of Forests, July 25, 2002) Section 4.2.5 (pp. 19-25). http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/code/consultationreports/RightBalanceFinal.pdf

November 8, 10 The Implementation challenge: how policies can change as they are implemented; factors contributing to successful implementation; tradeoffs between conditions for policy adoption and implementation

• David Weimer and Aidan Vining, Policy Analysis: Concepts and Practice, 4^th ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ:  Pearson-Prentice-Hall, 2005), pp. 274-280. (reading packet)
• George Hoberg, “The politics of sustainability: forest policy in British Columbia,”  in Politics, Policy, and Government in British Columbia, ed. R. Carty (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1996), pp. 274-278. (reading packet)
• Karen Price, Audrey Roburn, Andy MacKinnon, “Ecosystem-based management in the Great Bear Rainforest,” Forest Ecology and Management 258 (2009) 495–503. (available on line through UBC Library)
• George Hoberg, ‘Lament for the Great Bear Rainforest,” GreenPolicyProf.org, April 2, 2009, http://greenpolicyprof.org/wordpress/?p=109

November 15, 17 New values – carbon and bioenergy: the policy challenges of transforming the forest sector to promote value from carbon offsets and forest bioenergy

• Ben Parfitt, Managing BC’s Forests for a Cooler Planet:  Carbon Storage, Sustainable Jobs, and Conservation, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, January 2010. http://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/reports/docs/ccpa_bc_managingforests.pdf

November 22, 24 Comparative context: how BC policy and practices compares to other jurisdictions

• Constance McDermott, Benjamin Cashore, and Peter Kanowski, Global Environmental Forest Policies:  An International Comparison, (London: Earthscan, 2010), Chapter 3, “Canada and the United States.” (in reading packet)

November 29, December 1 Conclusion

• Marty Luckert, David Haley, and George Hoberg, Policies for Sustainably Managing Canada’s Forests: Provincial Tenure, Stumpage Fees, and Forest Practices, (Vancouver:  UBC Press, 2011), Chapter 6 (in reading packet)