Donald K Alper
Biographic Data
| ID | 2006443 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald K Alper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald K |
| FAMILY NAME | Alper |
| SIGNATURE | ALPER D K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Washington University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Bridging Distances
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…
Bordered Perspectives
Increased centralization of control on the Canada–United States (US) border in response to security concerns emanating from 9/11 has prompted a continuing debate about future border policy. Broad top-down strategies, responsive to the agendas of national security managers have been deployed. These strategies formulated by national authorities may be at odds with the requirements of border stakeholders and authorities who face unique circumstances…
Special issue
This is a special issue of Journal of Borderland Studies focused on the theme: Rarely Studied Borderlands. The idea for this theme emerged during the organization of the last Border Region in Transition (BRIT IX) conference, held at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, United States, in January 2008. The organizing committee, co-chaired by the editors of this special issu…
Emerging collaborative frameworks for environmental governance in the Georgia basin‐Puget sound ecosystem
Much of the research on transboundary environmental relations between Canada and the United States has focused on formal institutional arrangements. Yet, recent research on transnational environmental governance points to the vital role played by collective action arrangements centered around ideas, identities and democratic discourse in facilitating progress in cross‐border environmental governance. This article argues that environmental governa…
Introduction
Nine years ago, the editors of the first special issue of The American Review of Canadian Studies on the of the Canada-U.S. asserted that the relationship best described as calm (Leyton-Brown and Jockel 1994, 449). Indeed, the volume was subtitled Weathering the Calm. Six years later, in 2000, Stephane Roussel remarked in the lead article of the Special Issue of ARCS, since renamed the Thomas 0. Enders Issue on the of the Canada-United States Rel…
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 …
Defying Conventional Wisdom
Transboundary Environmental Relations in British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest
The far west has long been an area of considerable environmental activity. In British Columbia the environment is a central element of the province's politics. Similarly, in the Pacific Northwest states, and especially Washington and Oregon, the environment consistently ranks very high on state and local government agendas. It is in this region--the Pacific Northwest and B.C.--that many of the largest and best-funded environmental organizations, …
Introduction
In the wake of the American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), considerable attention is being paid today to the social, economic, and political landscape of America. With the rapid growth of north-south commerce, information transfers, capital flows, human migrations, and environmental networks, the process of continental integration is accelerating. Associated with this process is increased permeability of national boundaries--what Ivo Duchacek has …
The idea of Cascadia
This paper examines the binational economic and ecological region in the Pacific Northwest and western Canada known as “Cascadia.” Growing awareness of regional economic strength and ecological interdependence has stimulated various Cascadia visions and agendas aimed at diminishing the barrier effect of the Canada‐United States border. These visions vary depending on how the region is geographically constructed and the extent to which growth econ…
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…
Canada and the United States
Winning Back the Words
Western American Perceptions of Quebec
Regional Transboundary Negotiations Leading to the Skagit River Treaty
Donald K. Alper, Robert L. Monahan, Regional Transboundary Negotiations Leading to the Skagit River Treaty: Analysis and Future Application, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Mar., 1986), pp. 163-174
Forgotten Partnership
Congressional Attitudes Toward Canada and Canada-United States Relations
Bill C-58 and the American Congress
This paper examines how and why us congressmen linked Bill C-58, which eliminates tax deductions for Canadian firms for advertising placed with foreign broadcasting stations and news publications, to an American tax reform measure which restricts income tax deduction of expenses incurred by Americans attending conventions in Canada. This linkage is analyzed as a case of retaliation which resulted from American misunderstandings about the purpose …
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 …
The idea of Cascadia
This paper examines the binational economic and ecological region in the Pacific Northwest and western Canada known as “Cascadia.” Growing awareness of regional economic strength and ecological interdependence has stimulated various Cascadia visions and agendas aimed at diminishing the barrier effect of the Canada‐United States border. These visions vary depending on how the region is geographically constructed and the extent to which growth econ…
Winning Back the Words
Emerging collaborative frameworks for environmental governance in the Georgia basin‐Puget sound ecosystem
Much of the research on transboundary environmental relations between Canada and the United States has focused on formal institutional arrangements. Yet, recent research on transnational environmental governance points to the vital role played by collective action arrangements centered around ideas, identities and democratic discourse in facilitating progress in cross‐border environmental governance. This article argues that environmental governa…
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…
Regional Transboundary Negotiations Leading to the Skagit River Treaty
Donald K. Alper, Robert L. Monahan, Regional Transboundary Negotiations Leading to the Skagit River Treaty: Analysis and Future Application, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Mar., 1986), pp. 163-174
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…
Bordered Perspectives
Increased centralization of control on the Canada–United States (US) border in response to security concerns emanating from 9/11 has prompted a continuing debate about future border policy. Broad top-down strategies, responsive to the agendas of national security managers have been deployed. These strategies formulated by national authorities may be at odds with the requirements of border stakeholders and authorities who face unique circumstances…
Special issue
This is a special issue of Journal of Borderland Studies focused on the theme: Rarely Studied Borderlands. The idea for this theme emerged during the organization of the last Border Region in Transition (BRIT IX) conference, held at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, United States, in January 2008. The organizing committee, co-chaired by the editors of this special issu…
Canada and the United States
Bill C-58 and the American Congress
This paper examines how and why us congressmen linked Bill C-58, which eliminates tax deductions for Canadian firms for advertising placed with foreign broadcasting stations and news publications, to an American tax reform measure which restricts income tax deduction of expenses incurred by Americans attending conventions in Canada. This linkage is analyzed as a case of retaliation which resulted from American misunderstandings about the purpose …
Bill C-58 and the American Congress
This paper examines how and why us congressmen linked Bill C-58, which eliminates tax deductions for Canadian firms for advertising placed with foreign broadcasting stations and news publications, to an American tax reform measure which restricts income tax deduction of expenses incurred by Americans attending conventions in Canada. This linkage is analyzed as a case of retaliation which resulted from American misunderstandings about the purpose …
Congressional Attitudes Toward Canada and Canada-United States Relations
Regional Transboundary Negotiations Leading to the Skagit River Treaty
Donald K. Alper, Robert L. Monahan, Regional Transboundary Negotiations Leading to the Skagit River Treaty: Analysis and Future Application, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Mar., 1986), pp. 163-174
Forgotten Partnership
Western American Perceptions of Quebec
Winning Back the Words
Introduction
In the wake of the American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), considerable attention is being paid today to the social, economic, and political landscape of America. With the rapid growth of north-south commerce, information transfers, capital flows, human migrations, and environmental networks, the process of continental integration is accelerating. Associated with this process is increased permeability of national boundaries--what Ivo Duchacek has …
The idea of Cascadia
This paper examines the binational economic and ecological region in the Pacific Northwest and western Canada known as “Cascadia.” Growing awareness of regional economic strength and ecological interdependence has stimulated various Cascadia visions and agendas aimed at diminishing the barrier effect of the Canada‐United States border. These visions vary depending on how the region is geographically constructed and the extent to which growth econ…
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…
Canada and the United States
Transboundary Environmental Relations in British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest
The far west has long been an area of considerable environmental activity. In British Columbia the environment is a central element of the province's politics. Similarly, in the Pacific Northwest states, and especially Washington and Oregon, the environment consistently ranks very high on state and local government agendas. It is in this region--the Pacific Northwest and B.C.--that many of the largest and best-funded environmental organizations, …
Defying Conventional Wisdom
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 …
Introduction
Nine years ago, the editors of the first special issue of The American Review of Canadian Studies on the of the Canada-U.S. asserted that the relationship best described as calm (Leyton-Brown and Jockel 1994, 449). Indeed, the volume was subtitled Weathering the Calm. Six years later, in 2000, Stephane Roussel remarked in the lead article of the Special Issue of ARCS, since renamed the Thomas 0. Enders Issue on the of the Canada-United States Rel…
Emerging collaborative frameworks for environmental governance in the Georgia basin‐Puget sound ecosystem
Much of the research on transboundary environmental relations between Canada and the United States has focused on formal institutional arrangements. Yet, recent research on transnational environmental governance points to the vital role played by collective action arrangements centered around ideas, identities and democratic discourse in facilitating progress in cross‐border environmental governance. This article argues that environmental governa…
Special issue
This is a special issue of Journal of Borderland Studies focused on the theme: Rarely Studied Borderlands. The idea for this theme emerged during the organization of the last Border Region in Transition (BRIT IX) conference, held at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, United States, in January 2008. The organizing committee, co-chaired by the editors of this special issu…
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…
Bordered Perspectives
Increased centralization of control on the Canada–United States (US) border in response to security concerns emanating from 9/11 has prompted a continuing debate about future border policy. Broad top-down strategies, responsive to the agendas of national security managers have been deployed. These strategies formulated by national authorities may be at odds with the requirements of border stakeholders and authorities who face unique circumstances…
Bridging Distances
Political science (18 works) · Law (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Canadian Identity and History (7 works) · Canadian Policy and Governance (7 works) · Economics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works)