1. Overview George Hoberg September 4, 2014 1

2.  Foundations  Domain, concepts  Categories of forest policy  Analytical framework  Policy cycle  Course Materials September 4, 2014 2

3.  Sustainability policies  Policies for natural resource management ▪ Renewable natural resources ▪ Forests  BC September 4, 2014 3

4.  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

5. 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 4, 2014415 - Overview5

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7. “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.” September 4, 2014415 - Overview7 1992 Canada Forest Accord, as quoted in Luckert, Haley, Hoberg, Policies for Sustainably Managing Canada’s Forests p. 20

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10.  Conflict of values, interest  Spatial distribution of interest  esp rural vs urban  Long time horizons  Factual uncertainty September 4, 2014 10

11. TenureTenure – allocating government-owned timber Stumpage Stumpage -- pricing Rate of harvest Rate of harvest – allowable annual cut (AAC) Land Use Land Use – zoning for different values (logging, conservation, etc) Forest PracticesForest Practices – regulating harvesting Emergent areas and overlaps (energy, carbon)energycarbon September 4, 2014 11

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13. 13 environment governance markets policies actions consequences

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

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

16.  Policies are produced through governance processes, influenced by environment and markets. September 4, 2014 16

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

18.  Foundations  Domain, concepts  Categories of forest policy  Analytical framework  Policy cycle  Course Materials  Critical Thinking assignment September 4, 2014 18

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20.  Syllabus  Readings  Assignments  exams  simulation  Participation  Connect Website September 4, 2014 20

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22.  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) September 4, 2014 22

23.  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 23

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25.  Foundations  Domain, concepts  Categories of forest policy  Analytical framework  Policy cycle  Course Materials  Critical Thinking assignment September 6, 2012 25

26.  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, 2012 26

27.  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? 27

28.  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 28

29.  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/2 014/03/Forest_Tenure_Discuss_Paper.pdf http://engage.gov.bc.ca/foresttenures/files/2 014/03/Forest_Tenure_Discuss_Paper.pdf September 4, 2014 29