Overview George Hoberg September

 Foundations  Domain, concepts  Categories of forest policy  Analytical framework  Policy cycle  Course Materials September

 Sustainability policies  Policies for natural resource management ▪ Renewable natural resources ▪ Forests  BC September

 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 4

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 September Overview5

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 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 September Overview7

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 Conflict of values, interest  Spatial distribution of interest  esp rural vs urban  Long time horizons  Factual uncertainty September

1. Allocation of “Crown” timber-- tenuretenure 2. Pricing -- stumpagestumpage 3. Rate of harvest – allowable annual cut (AAC) 4. Land Use – zoning for different values (logging, conservation, etc) Land Use 5. Regulation of harvesting -- Forest PracticesForest Practices 6. Emergent areas and overlaps (energy, carbon)energy carbon September

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13 environment governance markets policies actions consequences

 Environment  Biophysical environment  Resource characteristics  Markets  Prices  Exchange rates  Supply and demand  Trade restrictions 14

 political dimension  who decides  who participates  vertical dimension – at what level of government  regulatory dimension – with what instruments 15

 Policies are produced through governance processes, influenced by environment and markets. September

17 Agenda-Setting Policy Formulation Decisionmaking Policy Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation

 Foundations  Domain, concepts  Categories of forest policy  Analytical framework  Policy cycle  Course Materials  Critical Thinking assignment September

 Syllabus  Readings  Assignments  exams  simulation  Connect Website September

 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), introduction  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, (reading packet) September

 Born near Philadelphia, moved to San Francisco area for high school  BS from University of California, Berkeley (Political Economy of Natural Resources  PhD from MIT (Political Science)  Prof in UBC Political Science Department – Canadian citizen in 1992  Prof in UBC FRM Department 2001-present September

 Foundations  Domain, concepts  Categories of forest policy  Analytical framework  Policy cycle  Course Materials  Critical Thinking assignment September 6,

 Daniel Kahan, “What Is Motivated Reasoning and How Does It Work?, Science and Religion Today May 4, 2011.What Is Motivated Reasoning and How Does It Work?  Mark Hume, “The fight to protect what’s left of old-growth forests,” Globe and Mail, March 17, 2013The fight to protect what’s left of old-growth forests September 6,

 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.What Is Motivated Reasoning and How Does It Work? 24

 Read the Hume article  Write down and bring to class:  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 25

 Critical reading assignment  Evolution of BC forest policy  Readings:  Daniel Kahan, “What Is Motivated Reasoning and How Does It Work?, Science and Religion Today May 4, 2011.What Is Motivated Reasoning and How Does It Work?  BC Ministry of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resource Operations, Timber Tenures in British Columbia: Managing Public Forests in the Public Interest, June 2012,Timber Tenures in British Columbia  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 , (reading packet) September