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Environmental bargaining: Power struggles and decision-making over Tasmania and British Columbia's old-growth forests
AFFOLDERBACH, Julia
2011In Economic Geography, 87 (2), p. 181 - 206
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Keywords :
environmental bargaining; forest conflicts; ENGOs; British Columbia; Tasmania
Abstract :
[en] 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.
Disciplines :
Human geography & demography
Social & behavioral sciences, psychology: Multidisciplinary, general & others
Identifiers :
UNILU:UL-ARTICLE-2011-533
Author, co-author :
AFFOLDERBACH, Julia ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Identités, Politiques, Sociétés, Espaces (IPSE)
Language :
English
Title :
Environmental bargaining: Power struggles and decision-making over Tasmania and British Columbia's old-growth forests
Publication date :
2011
Journal title :
Economic Geography
ISSN :
0013-0095
Publisher :
Clark University, Worcester, United States - Massachusetts
Volume :
87
Issue :
2
Pages :
181 - 206
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
Funders :
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada
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