Comment on “Barriers to enhanced and integrated climate change adaptation and mitigation in Canadian forest management”

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serval:BIB_71CB7D94D29A
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Publication sub-type
Minutes: analyse of a published work.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Title
Comment on “Barriers to enhanced and integrated climate change adaptation and mitigation in Canadian forest management”
Journal
Canadian Journal of Forest Research
Author(s)
Wellstead Adam, Biesbroek Robbert, Cairney Paul, Davidson Debra, Dupuis Johann, Howlett Michael, Rayner Jeremy, Stedman Richard
ISSN
0045-5067
1208-6037
Publication state
Published
Issued date
10/2018
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
48
Number
10
Pages
1241-1245
Language
english
Abstract

We comment on the recent comprehensive review “Barriers to enhanced and integrated climate change adaptation and mitigation in Canadian forest management” by Williamson and Nelson (2017, Can. J. For. Res. 47: 1567–1576, doi:10.1139/cjfr-2017-0252). They employ the popular barriers analysis approach and present a synthesis highlighting the numerous barriers facing Canadian forest managers. The underlying functionalist assumptions of such an approach are highly problematic from both a scholarly and a practical policy perspective. We argue that social scientists engaged in climate change research who want to influence policy-making should understand and then empirically apply causal mechanisms. Methods such as process tracing and qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) are promising tools that can be employed in national- or local-level assessments.
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Open Access
Yes
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20/08/2019 14:30
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