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Barriers and opportunities for wildfire risk reduction treatments in the Cariboo region of British Columbia Melton, Judah Chaim
Abstract
The state of wildfire risk and occurrence in Canada poses challenges for forests in British Columbia. These challenges are especially exigent for dry-belt forests in the province. In the Interior, Douglas-fir stands have long been neglected, with licensees across the region focused on salvage logging of lodgepole pine stands affected by mountain pine beetle. With the end of salvage logging in sight, Interior Douglas-fir stands will become an increasingly important source of timber supply in the area. But these stands have stagnated. They are over-dense and at risk for catastrophic losses from wildfire or another insect or disease outbreak. This exploratory research focuses on identifying policies or economic factors that are the most constraining on forest managers in the region. To do so, qualitative case study research methods involving semi-structured interviews are used. These interviews were administered to forest professionals in decision-making positions for various actors in the region. Understanding the views of these decision-makers is one of the fundamental pieces of making sense of the on-the-ground effects of forest or environmental policies or regulations. Then, using a framework of barriers to climate change adaptation developed by Ekstrom, Moser, and Torn (2011), potential barriers to solutions are discovered. Finally, the potential adaptation of a US tool called “stewardship contracting” to address issues, constraints, or barriers is analyzed.
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Barriers and opportunities for wildfire risk reduction treatments in the Cariboo region of British Columbia
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University of British Columbia
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2020
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The state of wildfire risk and occurrence in Canada poses challenges for forests in
British Columbia. These challenges are especially exigent for dry-belt forests in the province.
In the Interior, Douglas-fir stands have long been neglected, with licensees across the region
focused on salvage logging of lodgepole pine stands affected by mountain pine beetle. With
the end of salvage logging in sight, Interior Douglas-fir stands will become an increasingly
important source of timber supply in the area. But these stands have stagnated. They are
over-dense and at risk for catastrophic losses from wildfire or another insect or disease
outbreak.
This exploratory research focuses on identifying policies or economic factors that are
the most constraining on forest managers in the region. To do so, qualitative case study
research methods involving semi-structured interviews are used. These interviews were
administered to forest professionals in decision-making positions for various actors in the
region. Understanding the views of these decision-makers is one of the fundamental pieces of
making sense of the on-the-ground effects of forest or environmental policies or regulations.
Then, using a framework of barriers to climate change adaptation developed by
Ekstrom, Moser, and Torn (2011), potential barriers to solutions are discovered. Finally, the
potential adaptation of a US tool called “stewardship contracting” to address issues,
constraints, or barriers is analyzed.
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eng
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2020-06-10
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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10.14288/1.0391865
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University of British Columbia
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2020-11
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Graduate
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