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1 online resource (296 pages)
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9781589012806
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American Governance and Public Policy series
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Sarah B. Pralle takes an in-depth look at why some environmental conflicts expand to attract a lot of attention and participation, while others generate little interest or action. Branching Out, Digging In examines the expansion and containment of political conflict around forest policies in the United States and Canada.Late in 1993 citizens from around the world mobilized on behalf of saving old-growth forests in Clayoquot Sound. Yet, at the same time only a very few took note of an even larger reserve of public land at risk in northern California. Both cases, the Clayoquot Sound controversy in British Columbia and the Quincy Library Group case in the Sierra Nevada mountains of northern California, centered around conflicts between environmentalists seeking to preserve old-growth forests and timber companies fighting to preserve their logging privileges. Both marked important episodes in the history of forest politics in their respective countries but with dramatically different results. The Clayoquot Sound controversy spawned the largest civil disobedience in Canadian history; international demonstrations in Japan, England, Germany, Austria, and the United States; and the most significant changes in British Columbia's forest policy in decades. On the other hand, the California case, with four times as many acres at stake, became the poster child for the collaborative conservation approach, using stakeholder collaboration and negotiation to achieve a compromise that ultimately broke down and ended up in the courts.Pralle analyzes how the various political actorsùlocal and national environmental organizations, local residents, timber companies, and different levels of governmentùdefined the issues in both words and images, created and reconfigured alliances, and drew in different governmental institutions to attempt to achieve their goals. She
Inhalt:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- Introduction -- 1 The Expansion and Containment of Policy Conflict -- Part I: The Expansion of Conflict in British Columbia Forest Politics -- 2 Forest Policy in British Columbia and the Conflict over Clayoquot Sound -- 3 Constructing the Global: Issue Expansion in Clayoquot Sound, British Columbia -- 4 From Local to Global: Expanding Participation in Clayoquot Sound -- 5 Venue Shopping in an International Context -- Part II: The Containment of Conflict in Northern California -- 6 U.S. Forest Policy and the Birth of the Quincy Library Group -- 7 Retreating to the Local: Issue Containment in Northern California -- 8 Allies, Opponents, and Audiences: Containing Participation in the Quincy Library Group -- 9 Lawsuits, Libraries, and Legislatures: The Quincy Library Group and Venue Shopping -- 10 Managing Policy Conflicts -- Appendix: Sample Interview Questions -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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ISBN 9781589011236
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781589011236
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