Forestry 415 Sustainable Forest Policy

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