scholarly journals Policy advice for public participation in British Columbia forest management

2007 ◽  
Vol 83 (5) ◽  
pp. 672-681 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Tyler DesRoches
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
British Columbia ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Forest Practices ◽  
Policy Level

This paper explores the current status of public participation in BC forest management with the objective of finding ways to improve it at the policy level. Public participation is discussed in relation to features of deliberative democratic theory and then within the historical context of BC forest management. Recent public complaints concerning inadequate participatory opportunities received at the Forest Practices Board and the move to diminish the extent of public participation in land-use planning is discussed. This paper maintains that effective public participation should be a goal of public forest management and that a corresponding policy should be devised. Key words: public participation, forest management, legitimacy, British Columbia

scholarly journals The urban public and forest land-use planning: Tapping into the majority

2007 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-230
Author(s):  
Scott Kidd ◽  
A. John Sinclair
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
General Public ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
East Side ◽  
Forested Landscapes

Canadians desire involvement in forest management at normative or early planning phases. One way of accomplishing this is through meaningful public involvement in land-use planning efforts. The Provinces of Ontario and Manitoba have, respectively, completed or are completing the development of land use plans for large areas of forested landscapes. Both governments identified public participation as being an integral part of these processes. This paper examines how well these processes promoted participation by the general public, the vast majority of which resides in urban areas located outside the respective planning regions. It is determined that in both cases this was poorly done. Reasons are given for why and how increased participation by the urban public should be pursued. Key words: public involvement, land-use planning, forest management, urban centres, Lands for Life, East Side Planning Initiative, Canada

scholarly journals Public participation in British Columbia forest management

2010 ◽  
Vol 86 (6) ◽  
pp. 697-708 ◽  
Author(s):  
H W Harshaw
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
British Columbia ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Consensus Building ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
Forest Planning And Management ◽  
Planning Processes

Conceptions and challenges of public participation in British Columbia are reviewed to identify those characteristicsof planning processes that serve to benefit or constrain the interests and needs of public stakeholders. Perspectives onpublic participation, including representative and participatory democracies, and approaches to incorporating publicperspectives in decision-making (i.e., shared decision-making, consensus-building, and interest-based negotiation) arepresented to demonstrate the different approaches (and their benefits and challenges) available for providing opportunitiesfor public participation. Lessons from other natural resource management contexts are distilled and used to evaluatethe BC context. Three principal forest planning and management frameworks (the Commission on Resources and theEnvironment, Land and Resource Management Plans, and sustainable forest management certification) are examinedin light of whether meaningful opportunities for public participation were provided.Key words: public participation, British Columbia, Commission on Resources and the Environment, Land and ResourceManagement Plans, sustainable forest management certification

Upwards from the Plateau

1968 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-13
Author(s):  
G. H. Bayly
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Wildlife Management ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Regional Planning ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
The Future

The development of the forester's leadership role in forest land management is compared to rising profile of land between a sea or lake shoreline and a range of mountains, the progression is upward but the rate of climb changes. No plateau is identified. Reference is made to forestry leadership in several fields of forest land management; administration, land use, planning, research, forest management, recreational land use and fish and wildlife management. It is noted that forest land management includes activities for which foresters were not academically trained and reference is made to the fact that non-foresters, e.g. biologists and geographers are giving leadership in forest land management and thus providing beneficial competition and stimulation. The most important leadership role in the future may relate to regional planning. The forestry profession is cautioned not to abdicate this field to those in other disciplines.

A results-based system for regulating reforestation obligations: Some developments in 2003

2004 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-208
Author(s):  
Patrick J Martin ◽  
Shane Browne-Clayton ◽  
Greg Taylor
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Regulatory Regime ◽  
Threshold Values ◽  
Threshold Levels ◽  
Efficient Management ◽  
Block Approach

In a recent paper, we described a multi-block approach to the regulation and management of reforestation (P.J. Martin, S. Browne-Clayton, and E. McWilliams (2002), "A results-based system for regulating reforestation obligations," Forestry Chronicle 78(4): 492–498). Under the multi-block approach, indicators are devised that portray the degree to which the condition of regeneration on harvested areas is consistent with forest management goals. A population of harvested areas is sampled. The current levels of the indicators are estimated and compared to threshold values. If observed levels exceed threshold levels, the population is considered adequately reforested and all reforestation obligations are met. In this paper, we describe some recent enhancements of this concept and demonstrate how the multi-block approach provides characteristics desirable in a regulatory regime. By shifting the focus of reforestation regulation from the stand level to the level of a population of harvested areas, the multi-block approach provides effective regulation, permits efficient management, and addresses several shortcomings in British Columbia's current reforestation regulations. Key words: reforestation, regulation, British Columbia, indicators, multi-block approach

scholarly journals ANÁLISE COMPARADA DA PARTICIPAÇÃO POPULAR EM PLANOS DE ORDENAMENTO DO TERRITÓRIO: estudo empírico brasileiro e português

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 423 ◽  
Author(s):  
João Aparecido Bazolli ◽  
Cecilia Maria Neves Delgado
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Strong Influence ◽  
Participatory Democracy ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Popular Participation ◽  
Planning Policy ◽  
Participatory Model

Resumo: Este estudo analisou planos de ordenamento de território brasileiros e portugueses, com o objetivo de compreender a prática da participação popular na construção da democracia participativa. A metodologia aplicada ao trabalho consistiu na análise empírica da participação popular do Plano-Diretor Municipal (2007); e o de Regularização Fundiária (2012), em Palmas-TO, Brasil; do Plano Nacional da Política de Ordenamento do Território (2006); e o do Diretor Municipal de Vila Nova de Gaia (2007), em Portugal. Da análise efetuada, verificou a participação popular nos planos estudados com caráter meramente homologatório, com reduzida presença de atores, e da forte influência da legislação urbana, de difícil aplicação prática. Concluiu que o modelo participativo aplicado aos casos brasileiros e portugueses estudados merece reflexão quanto à sua qualidade, em razão dos fatores apontados neste estudo descaracterizarem e comprometerem a construção da democracia participativa, usada como instrumento moderno de gestão no ordenamento do território.Palavras-chave: Participação pública, Plano Diretor, Plano de Ordenamento.COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF POPULAR PARTICIPATION IN LAND USE PLANNING: brazilian and portuguese empirical studyAbstract: This study analyzed Brazilian and Portuguese land use planning in order to understand the practice of popular participation in the construction of participatory democracy. The methodology applied consisted on empirical analysis of popular participation: in Brazil the Palmas - TO Master Plan (2007) and land regularization (2012); in Portugal the National Land Use Planning Policy (2006) and the master Plan of Vila Nova de Gaia (2007). From the analysis made, should be highlight, the involvement practice with merely ratifying aims, reduced presence of actors, and strong influence of urban legislation. In conclusion the participatory model applied to Brazilian and Portuguese studied cases deserves reflection regarding its quality, due to the factors identified in this study, mischaracterize and compromise participatory democracy concept, as a modern management tool in land use planning.Key words: Public participation, master plan, Development Plan.

Is Intensive Forest Management a misnomer? An Ontario-based discussion of terminology and an alternative approac

2006 ◽  
Vol 82 (5) ◽  
pp. 662-674 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Wayne Bell ◽  
Douglas G Pitt ◽  
Monique C Wester
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Forest Policy ◽  
Forest Growth ◽  
Intensive Silviculture ◽  
Intensive Forest Management ◽  
Plot Network ◽  
Intensively Managed ◽  
Forest Managers

The term forest management refers to the science and business of operating a forest property, which, on Crown lands in Ontario, is typically a forest management unit. Silviculture is a component of forest management that refers to the suite of stand-level activities used to control stand composition and growth. Intensive forest management (IFM) is a concept that has been discussed and considered in Ontario for at least 30 years. Originally, it referred to an intensively managed forest in which most stands are subject to relatively intensive silvicultural practices. Over time, both professional foresters and stakeholders began using the term IFM as if it were synonymous with intensive silviculture. As a result, IFM has been inappropriately used to reference stand-level activities in several published definitions and key policy documents, creating confusion among the science community, professionals, and the public. This confusion has made it difficult to implement aspects of the 1999 Ontario Forest Accord, which calls for the use of IFM (meaning intensive silviculture) to increase forest growth and productivity in some areas to offset the withdrawal of lands for parks and protected areas. We call on forest managers to refer to the term IFM correctly and to portray forest management to stakeholders as consisting of a portfolio of natural and/or anthropogenic disturbance regimes. With this approach, forest managers could more meaningfully define the intensity of forest management and silviculture on their landbase.Key words: forest policy, land use planning, intensive silviculture, portfolio concept of forest management, triad principle of land-use zoning, Forest Research Partnership, NEBIE Plot Network

Coal Policy Developments in the 1990s

1995 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 377-384
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
British Columbia ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Mining Company ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Mining Areas ◽  
Mineral Sector ◽  
Public Risk ◽  
Key Policy ◽  
The Government

Taxation, reclamation, and land use planning will be the three most important coal policy issues in British Columbia over the rest of the decade. British Columbia has reduced its profit-based taxes twice in the last five years in response to falling revenues, an increasing nonprofit tax burden, and falling coal prices. British Columbia's reclamation policy is meant to ensure that a mining company pays for reclamation of its minesite when mining is completed. For the coal sector, reclamation standards, acceptable security instruments, and the level of public risk are key policy issues that governments will have to confront. British Columbia has developed a process to resolve contentious land use issues through forward planning and public consensus. The mineral sector must limit the loss of access to potential mining areas while the government pursues its goal of doubling the size of protected areas.

Globale Walderhaltung und -bewirtschaftung und ihre Finanzierung: eine Bestandesaufnahme | Global forest conservation and management and its financing: an appraisal

2011 ◽  
Vol 162 (4) ◽  
pp. 107-116
Author(s):  
Jürgen Blaser ◽  
Christian Küchli
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Forest Conservation ◽  
Forest Cover ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Forest Protection

Around one third of the earth's surface is under forest cover which is distributed more or less equally between industrialised and developing countries. Whereas forest areas in the temperate and boreal climate zones are more or less stable or on the increase, the scale of deforestation and forest degradation in the tropics remains dramatic. This situation is likely to continue in the decades to come because the world's ever-growing population needs new agricultural land and the pressure on resources (forest products, land, water, minerals) continues to increase as a result of globalisation and global change. Moreover, sustainable forest management has not yet become standard practice in many southern countries because forest management can rarely compete with other forms of land use in terms of economic returns. The protection and sustainable management of forest resources is basically the responsibility of each individual country and cannot be regulated and financed globally. However, enormous financial resources, i.e. on a scale of tens of billions of Swiss francs per year, are required for the introduction of comprehensive land-use planning in developing countries incorporating suitable protection of natural forests and sustainable forest management. New approaches for the valorisation of services provided by forests such as carbon sinks (e.g. REDD+) offer significant potential for improving forest protection and sustainable forest management. It augurs well that the economic internalisation of the forest and its services is in full swing at global level and that, based on the REDD+ resolutions passed at the last climate conference in Cancún, many countries have opted for the path of forest conservation and sustainable forest management.

Analysis of the relationship among stakeholders affected by sustainable forest management and forest certification

1999 ◽  
Vol 75 (6) ◽  
pp. 961-965 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc-André Côté ◽  
Luc Bouthillier
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Forest Sector ◽  
Forest Certification ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Forest Practices ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Relationship

Supporters of sustainable forest management and forest certification are seeking to improve worldwide forest practices. Groups involved in the forest sector will have to adapt themselves to respect new environmental regulations, standards, and agreements linked to these two new concepts. Some forest stakeholders will lose several of their long-time privileges under the pressure of new actors involved in sustainable forest management. Forest managers will have to consider more social values in their planning than they used before. Sustainable forest management and forest certification thus have the potential to resolve, through public participation processes, old conflicts between stakeholders involved in forest management. However, these same processes could be the source of new conflicts. This article analyzes the ways in which relationships between forest stakeholders could be affected by new sustainable forest management rules. Key words: sustainable forest management, certification, forest stakeholder, public participation

The Mandate: Policies and Planning

1985 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-130
Author(s):  
K. A. Armson
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Large Degree ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Objective Knowledge ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
The Subject

Policies are general plans of action. Yet they are incomplete if only partially implemented or not implemented at all. When so-called policies exist merely as statements of intent they are not policies.The development of policies respecting forests and wildlife in Canada reflects many factors. To a very large degree such development represents the perceptions by a society or segments of it concerning the subject matter of the policy. These perceptions are derived from a broad background—cultural, social, economic, political, historical and institutional. The degree to which these perceptions reflect an objective knowledge and understanding of the resources in question or a consensus as to the objectives of the policy are critical.Of particular concern to this meeting are the institutional and professional factors that impinge on the development of policies for forests and wildlife. It is argued that the major impediments to more effective management of forests and wildlife in Canadian jurisdictions are institutional and educational in origin and therefore capable of much greater correction by the professional and scientific community than heretofore acknowledged. Key words: land use planning, forest management policy.

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