Balancing Preservation and Logging
Public Lands Policy in British Columbia and the Western United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6328839 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gary Bryner (Brigham Young University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 307-327 |
| Publication date | 1999-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Policy Studies Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-292X • E-ISSN: 1541-0072 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1541-0072.1999.tb01970.x |
| OpenAlex | W2072898873 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 5 |
Both the United States and Canada have made fundamental changes in their policies regarding natural resources. The province of British Columbia made major revisions to its forest policy in the earlyto‐mid‐1990s; in the western United States, policy efforts have been stymied by conflicts between state and federal officials and between conservationists and resource developers. The different structures of federalism in the two countries result in two different approaches to policymaking that are discussed here. However, the ultimate test of natural resource policy, I argue, should be their consistency with the goal of sustainable ecosystems and preservation of biodiversity. From the perspective of ecological science, neither country has been particularly successful in policymaking for public lands and for logging in particular. Both nations have failed to give priority to protecting old‐growth forests and largely have rejected the idea that ancient forests are much more valuable than simply sources of timber
Business · Economics · Environmental protection · Environmental resource management · Geography · Logging · Natural resource · Natural resource economics · Political science · Public policy · Resource (disambiguation · State (computer science · American Environmental and Regional History · Economic and Environmental Valuation · Forest Management and Policy · Law · Public Administration · Forestry
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2023 (25) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |