In Search of Sustainability: British Columbia Forest Policy in the 1990's - Softcover

Cashore, School Of Forestry And Environmental Studies Benjamin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774808314 ISBN 13: 9780774808316

Publisher: UBC Press, 2001

Synopsis

In recent years, the forests of British Columbia have become a battleground for sustainable resource development. The conflicts are ever present, usually pitting environmentalists against the forest industry and forestry workers and communities. In an effort to broker peace in the woods, British Columbia’s NDP government launched a number of promising new forest policy initiatives in the 1990s.

In Search of Sustainability brings together a group of political scientists to examine this extraordinary burst of policy activism. Focusing on how much change has occurred and why, the authors examine seven components of BC forest policy: land use, forest practices, tenure, Aboriginal issues, timber supply, pricing, and jobs. Results of initiatives in these policy areas have been mixed. While environmental values have acquired a more central place in BC forest policy, they have not displaced timber production as the dominant force in policy making. Moreover, the authors conclude that despite the astonishing level of activism, the government’s search for sustainability -- whether measured by environmental, social, economic, or political indicators -- has ultimately failed.

In Search of Sustainability is a lucid, provocative, and often sobering examination of a crucial period in the forest industry in a province where forestry remains a central plank of the provincial economy and where environmental pressures, both domestic and foreign, continue to escalate. Essential reading for scholars, teachers, and students of forestry and environmental policy, it will also appeal to anyone interested in the future of forestry both in British Columbia and beyond.

About this title

Book Description

A provocative examination of a recent changes in forest policy in British Columbia

About the Author

Benjamin Cashore, George Hoberg, Michael Howlett, Jeremy Rayner, and Jeremy Wilson teach at Auburn University, the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, Malaspina University College, and the University of Victoria respectively.

Edition details

• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0774808314
• ISBN 13: 9780774808316
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 340