Environmental Bargaining and Boundary Organizations: Remapping British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest

Affolderbach, Julia; Clapp, Roger Alex; Hayter, Roger

doi:10.1080/00045608.2012.706567

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“…The CIT's mandate was to establish a common knowledge base on which all stakeholders agreed, to answer questions posed by negotiators and to support the bargaining process (Affolderbach et al . ). The shared knowledge base generated through this process was a GIS of the region that mapped multiple cultural, economic and ecological characteristics.…”

Section: Stakeholder Collaboration and Institutional Innovation In Thmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…() discuss the novel elements of the ecosystem‐based management governing future logging; Low and Shaw (2011/12) highlight the new features of the agreement involving aboriginal peoples, notably government‐to‐government negotiations and the Coast Opportunity Funds; while Affolderbach et al . () draw attention to the creation of a scientific boundary organisation, the Coast Information Team. The agreement featured fundamentally changed relations between environmental politics and science (Dempsey ), and is broadly influential, serving as model for the Boreal Forest Agreement of 2010 that covers 76 million hectares across Canada (Boychuk ).…”

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“…As an umbrella term, remapping refers to two closely related processes in support of new forms of sustainable and equitable resource governance: the revaluation of resources from a commodity base to incorporate environmental and non-consumptive uses, and specific changes to land use designations that derive from these revaluations (Hayter 2003;Clapp 2004;Affolderbach et al 2012; see also Brogden and Greenberg (2003) on re-territorialisation). Remapping serves as both normative metaphor for the conflicts and prescription for new regional plans and forms of governance that generate new institutions to address stakeholder interests in ways that replace conflict with cooperation.…”

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Institutional thickening and innovation: reflections on the remapping of the Great Bear Rainforest

Clapp¹,

Hayter²,

Affolderbach³

et al. 2016

Trans Inst British Geog

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As a response to forest conflict, contemporary remapping refers to re‐evaluations of resource values, new and diverse forms of governance among stakeholders, and compromises within patterns of land use that give greater emphasis to environmental and cultural priorities. This paper elaborates the processes of remapping by examining the role of institutional innovation in conflict resolution, with particular reference to the iconic Great Bear Rainforest of British Columbia. After years of conflict and protest, peace in the Great Bear Rainforest was heralded by an interim agreement in 2006, with final ratification likely in 2016. Conceptually, a four‐legged stakeholder model identifies the main institutional interests and their interactions through learning and bargaining. New forms of governance were created to bring the stakeholders together in constructive dialogue and then to reach and implement acceptable bargains. Analytically, the paper examines how this agreement has worked in practice by reflecting on the emergence of novel institutions that integrate the interests of key stakeholders. The discussion identifies six bilateral negotiations between: industrial and environmental interests; federal and provincial governments and aboriginal peoples; government and environmental interests; government and industry; industry and aboriginal peoples; and environmental groups and local communities. The remapping process has produced a thickening architecture of institutions that remain experimental even as they seek to promote sustainability, resilience and legitimacy.

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Institutional thickening and innovation: reflections on the remapping of the Great Bear Rainforest

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“…Utilizing institutional economics, they introduce an approach to study resource peripheries as contested spaces that are shaped by a set of stakeholder groups implementing wider institutional forces or values. The contested periphery approach has been further developed in other studies (e.g., Barnes and Hayter ; Hayter ; Hayter and Barnes ; Affolderbach, Clapp, and Hayter ). Their starting point has been that peripheries and their development cannot be understood with the concepts or universal economic explanations developed in and for the economic core areas.…”

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Positionality Switch: Remapping Resource Communities in Russian Borderlands

Kortelainen

Rannikko

2014

Economic Geography

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This article elaborates on the contested periphery approach and related local models. Some economic geographers argue that the peculiarities of resource peripheries cannot be understood with the help of economic theories designed in economic cores. The contested periphery approach was developed specifically for resource economies and stresses the importance of geographically variable interactions of stakeholder groups that channel broad institutional values (industrialism, regulationism, environmentalism, and aboriginalism) into peripheries. Along with local features, they create local models, and changes in relations occasionally remap the conditions for resource utilization. The contested periphery approach is based on comparisons between large territorial regions, but we argue that this does not provide sufficient tools to recognize the relationally formed heterogeneity of peripheries. Instead, this article focuses on the changing positionalities of local communities. We introduce the concept of positionality switch to highlight the ways abrupt shifts in the direction of relations alter local positionalities. Empirically, we explore two Russian forestry communities in the Finnish-Russian borderland. Cross-border trade connections and the shifting semipermeability of the boundary have greatly influenced the local model and remapped borderland communities. Reestablished timber export in the 1990s began to create a local model shaped by imported forestry technologies and work organization systems. In the 2000s, higher customs duties for wood and deteriorating transportation links cut off both the cross-border and domestic connections leaving the settlements in limbo. The article concludes by arguing that the contested periphery approach and local models should be localized and supplemented with the concepts of positionality and positionality switch as well as contextually relevant concepts because they help to better understand the particularities and specific relations of each local model. 59ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY 91(1):59-82.

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“…NGOs can have this 'bridging ability' with respect to natural resources and environment because of perceived independence (and therefore legitimacy) in transition processes (Affolderbach et al, 2012;Shah, 2011). In co-management, NGOs can thus bridge interests and perceptions of actors and create a flexible environment and space for discussions and negotiations in decision making.…”

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Administrative co-management in special use forests of Vietnam

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Environmental Bargaining and Boundary Organizations: Remapping British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest

Cited by 30 publications

References 62 publications

Institutional thickening and innovation: reflections on the remapping of the Great Bear Rainforest

Institutional thickening and innovation: reflections on the remapping of the Great Bear Rainforest

Positionality Switch: Remapping Resource Communities in Russian Borderlands

Administrative co-management in special use forests of Vietnam

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