Abstract

Much attention in recent years has been focused on the idea of replacing patchworks of public policies in specific issue areas with more coordinated or ‘integrated’ policy strategies (IS). Empirical work on such strategies, however, shows the remarkable resilience of pre-existing policy elements, often leading to policy failures and other sub-optimal outcomes in policy reform efforts. Case studies of Integrated Land Management (ILM) reform efforts in Western Canada reveal the continuing problems pre-existing clientelistic political arrangements cause for governments attempting to replace sector-specific plans with more integrated frameworks.

Notes

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This research is based largely on interviews with provincial civil servants and industry members in 2005–9, funded by a grant from the Sustainable Forest Management Network of Centres of Excellence. We would like to thank research assistants Devyn Cousineau, Barry Robinson, Andrew Phillips, Andrea Balogh, Aaron Hamilton, and Jeffrey Walters, Tim Thielmann and our colleagues Chris Tollefson, Keith Brownsey, and Adam Wellstead for their work on this project.

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Under the NDP-era Forest Practices Code's Forest Development Plans, licencees were required to conduct an array of site-specific planning and preparatory measures prior to receiving logging authorization. New Forest Stewardship Plans (‘FSPs’) only require licencees to satisfy forestry officials that their strategies are consistent with objectives in FRPA.

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