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Forestry 415 Sustainable Forest Policy

Overview George Hoberg. Forestry 415 Sustainable Forest Policy. Today’s Agenda. Foundations Domain, concepts Categories of forest policy Analytical framework Policy cycle Course Materials. Course domain in context. Sustainability policies Policies for natural resource management

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Forestry 415 Sustainable Forest Policy

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  1. Overview George Hoberg Forestry 415Sustainable Forest Policy

  2. Today’s Agenda • Foundations • Domain, concepts • Categories of forest policy • Analytical framework • Policy cycle • Course Materials

  3. Course domain in context • Sustainability policies • Policies for natural resource management • Renewable natural resources • Forests • BC

  4. 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

  5. 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 415 - Overview

  6. Sustainable Forest Policy 415 - Overview

  7. 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.” 1992 Canada Forest Accord, as quoted in Luckert, Haley, Hoberg, Policies for Sustainably Managing Canada’s Forests p. 20 415 - Overview

  8. Forest Policy Objectives

  9. Forest Policy Objectives

  10. Forest Policy Challenges • Conflict of values, interest • Spatial distribution of interest • esp rural vs urban • Long time horizons • Factual uncertainty

  11. Categories of Forest Policy

  12. Analytical Framework: Forces at work in natural resources policy policies actions consequences

  13. Analytical Framework: Forces at work in natural resources policy governance policies environment actions markets consequences

  14. Analytical Framework – Environment and Markets • Environment • Biophysical environment • Resource characteristics • Markets • Prices • Exchange rates • Supply and demand • Trade restrictions

  15. Analytical Framework - Governance • political dimension • who decides • who participates • vertical dimension – at what level of government • regulatory dimension – with what instruments

  16. Theme • Policies are produced through governance processes, influenced by environment and markets.

  17. Agenda-Setting Policy Formulation Decisionmaking Policy Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Policy Cycle Model

  18. Today’s Agenda • Foundations • Domain, concepts • Categories of forest policy • Analytical framework • Policy cycle • Course Materials • Critical Thinking assignment

  19. Class composition

  20. Course materials • Syllabus • Readings • Assignments • exams • simulation • Participation • Connect Website

  21. How to thrive in exams

  22. 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)

  23. 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

  24. Teaching style

  25. Today’s Agenda • Foundations • Domain, concepts • Categories of forest policy • Analytical framework • Policy cycle • Course Materials • Critical Thinking assignment

  26. 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

  27. 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.

  28. 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

  29. 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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