Debra J Salazar
Biographic Data
| ID | 1488431 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Debra J Salazar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Debra J |
| FAMILY NAME | Salazar |
| SIGNATURE | SALAZAR D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Washington University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
States of Environmental Justice
In the 20 years since a president committed federal government agencies to achieving environmental justice (EJ), states have been at the forefront of policy development. But states have varied in the nature and extent of their EJ efforts. We use Guttman Scaling to measure state EJ effort and test hypotheses regarding the relative importance of problem severity, politics, and administrative variables to variation in state policy development. Our a…
Justice and Environmentalisms in the British Columbia and U.S. Pacific Northwest Environmental Movements
Researchers have found that many contemporary movements, including the environmental justice movement, offer multidimensional conceptions of justice that extend beyond the distribution of societal benefits and burdens. In an effort to understand the role of justice in environmental politics more broadly, we ask (1) how environmental activists throughout the movement understand social justice and (2) whether and how environmental activists vary in…
Saving Nature and Seeking Justice
Critics of the environmental movement point to its narrowness, conventionality, and sectoralism. Analysis of environmentalist discourses offers a means to assess these criticisms. Furthermore, examination of these discourses offers insight into the political ideas that link environmentalists with other progressives and those that divide these sectors. Drawing on a sample of 42 environmental activists in the United States Pacific Northwest, Q meth…
Identification with transboundary places and support for ecological transboundary governance
This paper is a case study of BC environmentalists to assess activists’ identification with transboundary places and support for transboundary governance. The focus is on environmental cases and issues involving British Columbia and its American neighbors. The study draws on semi‐structured interviews with twenty seven environmentalists to characterize their identification with regional, provincial and national entities and to explore the relatio…
Sustaining the Forests of the Pacific Coast
Part I: Introduction 1. Politics, Policy, and the War in the Woods / Debra J. Salazar and Donald K. Alper Part II: Institutions 2. How the Way We Make Policy Governs the Policy We Make / George Hoberg 3. International Dynamics of North American Forest Policy: From Bilateral to Global Perspectives / Thomas R. Waggener 4. Firms' Responses to External Pressures for Sustainable Forest Management in British Columbia and the US Pacific Northwest / Benj…
Reconciling Environmentalism and the Left
The article examines how political ideas of environmentalists support as well as impede relations between the environmental movement and other progressive movements. This requires examination of the role and meaning of social justice and democracy in the discourse of environmentalism. This study focuses such an examination on a sample of environmental activists in British Columbia. Q methodology is used to discern patterns of association between …
Think Globally, Secure the Borders
The environmental movement in the United States is engaged in a debate about the role of population and immigration on the movement’s agenda. The authors examine this debate within the Oregon environmental movement. Our focus is the role of race in shaping perspectives on immigration. Environmentalist immigration reformers in Oregon have framed their analysis in color-blind terms, but accusations of racism have dogged them. These accusations can …
Toward an integrated politics of social justice and environment
During the last decade, communities of color have mobilized to address environmental problems. Their engagement with the environment has given impetus to an environmental justice movement that has framed environmental inequities as another instance of social injustice and institutionalized racism. The present study outlines the elements of this environmental justice frame and examines its resonance through a set of interviews with 26 African Amer…
Perceptions of power and the management of environmental conflict
Political actors' perceptions of the contexts in which they act influence their strategies and behavior. A key element of political contexts is the configuration of power with respect to a conflict. We interviewed 28 individuals involved in British Columbia forest politics to determine their perceptions of the configuration of power, the nature of their political behavior, their dispositions with respect to institutionalized conflict resolution p…
Conservation and the nature of goods
Conflicts within the conservation movement have reflected disagreements regarding the purposes of conservation. We offer the concept of goods as a means to analyze these purposes. Conservation may be understood as the management of ecosystems to generate a continuous or sustained provision of specified sets of goods. A political economy of natural resources that focuses on goods will assess the allocative and distributive consequences of conserva…
States of Environmental Justice
In the 20 years since a president committed federal government agencies to achieving environmental justice (EJ), states have been at the forefront of policy development. But states have varied in the nature and extent of their EJ efforts. We use Guttman Scaling to measure state EJ effort and test hypotheses regarding the relative importance of problem severity, politics, and administrative variables to variation in state policy development. Our a…
Reconciling Environmentalism and the Left
The article examines how political ideas of environmentalists support as well as impede relations between the environmental movement and other progressive movements. This requires examination of the role and meaning of social justice and democracy in the discourse of environmentalism. This study focuses such an examination on a sample of environmental activists in British Columbia. Q methodology is used to discern patterns of association between …
Perceptions of power and the management of environmental conflict
Political actors' perceptions of the contexts in which they act influence their strategies and behavior. A key element of political contexts is the configuration of power with respect to a conflict. We interviewed 28 individuals involved in British Columbia forest politics to determine their perceptions of the configuration of power, the nature of their political behavior, their dispositions with respect to institutionalized conflict resolution p…
Justice and Environmentalisms in the British Columbia and U.S. Pacific Northwest Environmental Movements
Researchers have found that many contemporary movements, including the environmental justice movement, offer multidimensional conceptions of justice that extend beyond the distribution of societal benefits and burdens. In an effort to understand the role of justice in environmental politics more broadly, we ask (1) how environmental activists throughout the movement understand social justice and (2) whether and how environmental activists vary in…
Conservation and the nature of goods
Conflicts within the conservation movement have reflected disagreements regarding the purposes of conservation. We offer the concept of goods as a means to analyze these purposes. Conservation may be understood as the management of ecosystems to generate a continuous or sustained provision of specified sets of goods. A political economy of natural resources that focuses on goods will assess the allocative and distributive consequences of conserva…
Toward an integrated politics of social justice and environment
During the last decade, communities of color have mobilized to address environmental problems. Their engagement with the environment has given impetus to an environmental justice movement that has framed environmental inequities as another instance of social injustice and institutionalized racism. The present study outlines the elements of this environmental justice frame and examines its resonance through a set of interviews with 26 African Amer…
Perceptions of power and the management of environmental conflict
Political actors' perceptions of the contexts in which they act influence their strategies and behavior. A key element of political contexts is the configuration of power with respect to a conflict. We interviewed 28 individuals involved in British Columbia forest politics to determine their perceptions of the configuration of power, the nature of their political behavior, their dispositions with respect to institutionalized conflict resolution p…
Think Globally, Secure the Borders
The environmental movement in the United States is engaged in a debate about the role of population and immigration on the movement’s agenda. The authors examine this debate within the Oregon environmental movement. Our focus is the role of race in shaping perspectives on immigration. Environmentalist immigration reformers in Oregon have framed their analysis in color-blind terms, but accusations of racism have dogged them. These accusations can …
Sustaining the Forests of the Pacific Coast
Part I: Introduction 1. Politics, Policy, and the War in the Woods / Debra J. Salazar and Donald K. Alper Part II: Institutions 2. How the Way We Make Policy Governs the Policy We Make / George Hoberg 3. International Dynamics of North American Forest Policy: From Bilateral to Global Perspectives / Thomas R. Waggener 4. Firms' Responses to External Pressures for Sustainable Forest Management in British Columbia and the US Pacific Northwest / Benj…
Reconciling Environmentalism and the Left
The article examines how political ideas of environmentalists support as well as impede relations between the environmental movement and other progressive movements. This requires examination of the role and meaning of social justice and democracy in the discourse of environmentalism. This study focuses such an examination on a sample of environmental activists in British Columbia. Q methodology is used to discern patterns of association between …
Identification with transboundary places and support for ecological transboundary governance
This paper is a case study of BC environmentalists to assess activists’ identification with transboundary places and support for transboundary governance. The focus is on environmental cases and issues involving British Columbia and its American neighbors. The study draws on semi‐structured interviews with twenty seven environmentalists to characterize their identification with regional, provincial and national entities and to explore the relatio…
Saving Nature and Seeking Justice
Critics of the environmental movement point to its narrowness, conventionality, and sectoralism. Analysis of environmentalist discourses offers a means to assess these criticisms. Furthermore, examination of these discourses offers insight into the political ideas that link environmentalists with other progressives and those that divide these sectors. Drawing on a sample of 42 environmental activists in the United States Pacific Northwest, Q meth…
Justice and Environmentalisms in the British Columbia and U.S. Pacific Northwest Environmental Movements
Researchers have found that many contemporary movements, including the environmental justice movement, offer multidimensional conceptions of justice that extend beyond the distribution of societal benefits and burdens. In an effort to understand the role of justice in environmental politics more broadly, we ask (1) how environmental activists throughout the movement understand social justice and (2) whether and how environmental activists vary in…
States of Environmental Justice
In the 20 years since a president committed federal government agencies to achieving environmental justice (EJ), states have been at the forefront of policy development. But states have varied in the nature and extent of their EJ efforts. We use Guttman Scaling to measure state EJ effort and test hypotheses regarding the relative importance of problem severity, politics, and administrative variables to variation in state policy development. Our a…
Political science (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works) · Environmental justice (4 works) · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Geography (3 works)