Accounting for natural capital in BC : forestry and conflict in the Slocan Valley
| dc.contributor.author | Green, Thomas Leslie | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-08-13T22:56:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-08-13T22:56:20Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 1998 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 1998 | |
| dc.degree.department | School of Public Administration | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Arts M.A. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | BC's timber industry appears to be unsustainable. Government has drawn on economic analysis applied in a Multiple Accounts framework to reduce social conflict and arrive at more rational forest management decisions. Such studies report income in a way inconsistent with its Hicksian definition reinterpreted in a "full" world. This inconsistency and related deficiencies favour industrial forestry over ecosystem-based approaches. Building on Hicksian income and a societal commitment to sustainable development, I propose that economic analysis of renewable resource extraction be required to account for natural capital through an "interest/depletion" approach, whereby scenarios are evaluated against an ecosystem-based baseline. Applying these proposals to BC's Slocan Valley, where a struggle to protect ecosystems from industrial forestry culminated in civil disobedience, I illustrate how economic consequences are recast in a way relevant to sustainability. Political economy considerations temper the prognosis: values, perspectives, and interests are diverse and contested; power is concentrated; reform unlikely. | |
| dc.format.extent | 326 pages | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1828/17961 | |
| dc.rights | Available to the World Wide Web | en_US |
| dc.title | Accounting for natural capital in BC : forestry and conflict in the Slocan Valley | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
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