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   Environmental bargaining: Power struggles and decision-making over Tasmania and British Columbia's old-growth forestsAffolderbach, Julia  in Economic Geography (2011), 87(2), 181-206 Over the past few decades, conflicts over resources have increased in scale and intensity. They are frequently dominated by environmental nongovernmental organizations (ENGOs) that fight, boycott, lobby ... [more ▼] Over the past few decades, conflicts over resources have increased in scale and intensity. They are frequently dominated by environmental nongovernmental organizations (ENGOs) that fight, boycott, lobby, and negotiate with other interest groups to privilege nonindustrial, particularly environmental, values of resources. This article proposes an environmental bargaining framework to analyze the many and varied forms of interactions and processes through which ENGOs seek to change existing practices and decision structures. Drawing on political economy and political ecology approaches, environmental bargaining recognizes the importance of multiple perspectives, strategies of actors, and the regional context. Conceptually, the article interprets environmental conflicts along two dimensions: the distribution of power between actors and forms of interaction ranging from confrontational to collaborative. Examples from British Columbia, Canada, and Tasmania, Australia, reveal the value of comparative perspectives and the importance of the regional context that determines behavior and relationships between actors. While confrontational action has brought considerable change to Tasmania's forests, the example from British Columbia suggests that collaborative forms of decision making that are based on a balance of power have more potential to protect environmental values and bring peace to the woods. [less ▲] Detailed reference viewed: 64 (0 UL)Business Power and Conflict in International Environmental PoliticsAffolderbach, Julia in Environmental Politics (2010), 19(6), 1022-1023 Detailed reference viewed: 98 (1 UL)Definition and Measurement of the Social Economy: Continuous Construct or Dichotomous Variable?; ; Affolderbach, Julia Report (2009) Detailed reference viewed: 97 (0 UL)ENGOs and environmental bargains: A comparative analysis of forest conflicts in Tasmania and British ColumbiaAffolderbach, Julia Doctoral thesis (2008) This thesis focuses on environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) and their roles in forest conflicts in Tasmania, Australia, and British Columbia (BC), Canada. ENGOs challenge vested economic ... [more ▼] This thesis focuses on environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) and their roles in forest conflicts in Tasmania, Australia, and British Columbia (BC), Canada. ENGOs challenge vested economic interests in order to give greater priority to environmental values. These challenges are often highly conflictual especially with regard to resource use. EN GOs use conflicts and more cooperative forms of behaviour to create environmental bargains with other institutions, notably business, government, labour, and Aboriginal peoples, to achieve their goals. This thesis compares and contrasts environmental bargaining in the forest economies of Tasmania and Be. Conceptually, the thesis elaborates on the theme of environmental bargaining from an institutional perspective that identifies ENGOs as central actors. Environmental bargaining is context sensitive and features the integration of multiple perspectives, dimensions, and voices. Processes and outcomes are interpreted along two dimensions, distribution of power between actors and forms of decision-making ranging from non-participatory to participatory forms. Empirically, the thesis draws upon interviews with over 80 representatives of ENGOs, companies, governmental agencies, and other NGOs in Tasmania and Be. In both places, environmental bargaining was characterized by high levels of conflict and played out on multiple spatial levels led by increasingly global ENGOs. While ENGOs in BC increased their bargaining power through international markets campaigns, Tasmanian environmental groups used national and international support to strengthen their power base. In BC environmental bargaining became more consensual and participatory over time leading to considerable changes in management practices and conservation but also changes in underlying values and perspectives. In Tasmania bargaining was dominated by non participatory forms of decision-making that did not reduce conflict potential even though the remapping of Tasmania's forests from industrial uses to protected area status has been relatively greater. In general, ENGOs are important in restructuring and remapping resource peripheries from economic to environmental imperatives as reflected in the bargaining outcomes. Moreover, environmental bargaining is contingent on place and a closer look at the cultural, economic, and political characteristics of the two regions offers explanations as to why environmental bargaining and outcomes differ. [less ▲] Detailed reference viewed: 140 (1 UL)Resolving Environmental Disputes: From Conflict to ConsensusAffolderbach, Julia in Environmental Politics (2008), 17(1), 169-170 Detailed reference viewed: 92 (1 UL)Research Decisions in Mapping the Social Economy in Alberta and British ColumbiaAffolderbach, Julia ; ; Report (2008) Detailed reference viewed: 59 (0 UL)Summary of Results: BALTA Social Economy Survey Fall 2008Affolderbach, Julia ; Report (2008) Detailed reference viewed: 52 (1 UL)Seeing the forest and the trees: Human-environment interactions in forest ecosystemsAffolderbach, Julia in Regional Studies (2007), 41(3), 417-418 Detailed reference viewed: 69 (3 UL)Private or self-regulation? A comparative study of forest certification choices in Canada, the United States and Germany; ; et al in Forest Policy and Economics (2005), 7(1), 53-69 Detailed reference viewed: 103 (0 UL)Studieren in Köln Eine Exkursion durch die Kölner Hochschullandschaft zwischen Köln und MüngersdorfAffolderbach, Julia ; in Köln und der Kölner Raum. Ein geographischer Exkursionsführer, 2 (2004) Detailed reference viewed: 72 (0 UL)
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