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Full-Text Articles in Political Science
Operationalizing Cultural Ecosystem Services For Political Decision-Making, Bessie Schwarz
Operationalizing Cultural Ecosystem Services For Political Decision-Making, Bessie Schwarz
Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference
As social scientists develop promising new ways to measure Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES) for decision-making, the question becomes if and how political decision-makers integrate this information into natural resources policy and management. My talk will dissect participatory value mapping as a method for bringing CES into the legislative processes. Value mapping uses spatially explicit surveys to reveal the density and distribution of values (both monetary and non-monetary) that stakeholders attribute to their environment. In a study conducted in 2013, I explored the use of this method to inform Shoreline Master Programs on the Olympic Peninsula. I used Conceptual Content Cognitive …
Rethinking Our Waterways - Best Practices For Collaborative Approaches To Watershed Planning, Amy Greenwood
Rethinking Our Waterways - Best Practices For Collaborative Approaches To Watershed Planning, Amy Greenwood
Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference
Water is the lifeblood of communities. We depend on it, we value it, and with growing awareness of the potential impacts of population growth, climate change and other pressures within our water resources and watersheds, we must work together to effectively manage and steward our water resources into the future. To address the complexities inherent to watershed and water resource planning at the local scale, the Fraser Basin Council has developed a comprehensive watershed-planning guide to assist organizations and individuals to:• Understand the value of water and watershed planning• Navigate the diversity of current and emerging water issues• Understand the …
Climate Risk Polycentricity And The Iad Framework, Troy D. Abel, Mark Christopher Stephan, Dorothy Daley
Climate Risk Polycentricity And The Iad Framework, Troy D. Abel, Mark Christopher Stephan, Dorothy Daley
College of the Environment on the Peninsulas Publications
Climate change is commonly cast as a significant governance challenge demanding national and international actions. Subsequently, political science research tends to focus on the policy and politics of nation-states, their domestic institutions, and/or their interplay in international venues. However, thousands of industrial facilities and hundreds of subnational US governments are active in American climate risk governance. Therefore, we argue that more research should attend to climate governance’s subnational policy and politics, their promise, and their performance. In the vacuum of national policies to mitigate and adapt to climate-change, subnational arrangements offer an ideal opportunity to study not only the spontaneity …
Climate Risk Polycentricity And The Iad Framework, Troy D. Abel, Mark Stephan, Dorothy Daley
Climate Risk Polycentricity And The Iad Framework, Troy D. Abel, Mark Stephan, Dorothy Daley
Troy D. Abel
Climate change is commonly cast as a significant governance challenge demanding national and international actions. Subsequently, political science research tends to focus on the policy and politics of nation-states, their domestic institutions, and/or their interplay in international venues. However, thousands of industrial facilities and hundreds of subnational US governments are active in American climate risk governance. Therefore, we argue that more research should attend to climate governance’s subnational policy and politics, their promise, and their performance. In the vacuum of national policies to mitigate and adapt to climate-change, subnational arrangements offer an ideal opportunity to study not only the spontaneity …
African Immigrants In South Africa, Ruta Nanivadekar
African Immigrants In South Africa, Ruta Nanivadekar
Occam's Razor
According to the South African Forced Migration Studies Programme, there are between one and three million African immigrants currently residing in South Africa ( Jolly, 2008). There were 57,899 official refugees and 219,368 registered asylum seekers as of January 2012, which is the highest number of asylum seekers out of any country in Africa and the world (UNCHR, 2012). Immigration from other African countries into South Africa has implications for the economy, politics, health and education services, South Africa’s role in the greater African continent, and ideas about human rights. As such, African immigration, both documented and undocumented, is an …
Occam's Razor Vol. 4 - Full (2014)
The Columbia River Treaty Review: A Synopsis, David L. (David Lindsay) Davidson, Jaymes Mcclain
The Columbia River Treaty Review: A Synopsis, David L. (David Lindsay) Davidson, Jaymes Mcclain
Border Policy Research Institute Publications
The Columbia River watershed comprises 258,500 square miles (about the size of Texas), with 15 percent of the watershed located in Canada. Tributaries in the upper watershed drain a substantial portion of the Canadian and American Rocky Mountains; precipitation and snowmelt from the Rockies are main flow components. The river then crosses the arid Columbia Plateau and reaches the Pacific via the Columbia River Gorge. In an average year, the river disgorges 198 million acre-feet (MAF) of water, with 25 percent of the runoff (a disproportionately large amount) originating in Canada. With snowmelt a large component of runoff, the river’s …
Comparing Us And Canadian Foreign Worker Policies, Laurie Trautman
Comparing Us And Canadian Foreign Worker Policies, Laurie Trautman
Border Policy Research Institute Publications
In both the U.S. and Canada, immigration reform is a politically, economically and emotionally contentious issue. One component of immigration policy in particular – the use of temporary foreign labor – is an important aspect of policy reform in both countries. This Border Policy Brief explores the policies used by Canada and the U.S. to import temporary foreign workers, often referred to as "guest workers,‟ particularly in lower-skilled occupations such as agriculture, hospitality and caregiving. Although both countries are increasingly relying on foreign workers to fill lower-skilled labor needs, they are doing so in very different ways.
Implications Of Trade Trends Upon Canada-Us Border Infrastructure, Border Policy Research Institute
Implications Of Trade Trends Upon Canada-Us Border Infrastructure, Border Policy Research Institute
Border Policy Research Institute Publications
The transportation and inspection agencies that build and operate border infrastructure are engaged in a constant process of facility planning, wrestling with decisions about where to invest limited resources. The existing situation at a facility is obviously influential—e.g., traffic volumes in excess of a facility’s capacity; subpar workplace conditions; excessive maintenance costs for a decrepit facility. But equally important is the need to consider future conditions, such as the traffic forecast. This article discusses the volume of trade forecasted to occur at eight major ports-of-entry (POEs) along the Canada – U.S. border.
Pilot Project: Using Rfid To Reduce Border Queues, David L. (David Lindsay) Davidson
Pilot Project: Using Rfid To Reduce Border Queues, David L. (David Lindsay) Davidson
Border Policy Research Institute Publications
Since 9/11, about $500 million has been spent on border infrastructure in the Cascade Gateway region, including new port facilities, improvements to approaching highways, and deployments of technologies such as wait-time systems. Yet there frequently are queues in excess of 60 minutes for the many travelers who are not enrolled in NEXUS (a program that provides trusted travelers with access to a dedicated highway lane). While regional stakeholders know that queues would be far worse in the absence of past investments, efforts are continually underway to improve border mobility. Greater usage of RFID-enabled documents is a proven method of bolstering …
2013/14 Imtc Passenger Vehicle Survey: Project Organization & Report Of Findings, Border Policy Research Institute
2013/14 Imtc Passenger Vehicle Survey: Project Organization & Report Of Findings, Border Policy Research Institute
Border Policy Research Institute Publications
For the IMTC passenger vehicle survey, the notion of a "cross-border trip" is not as rigid a definition of "trip" as typically used in traffic modeling. While basic origin and destination data was collected here, our purpose was not to obtain a trip diary from our respondents that would account for intermediary stops. Our interests were in the primary destination a traveler had when they left their residence and headed across the border.
Canadian Indians, Inuit, Métis, And Métis: An Exploration Of The Unparalleled Rights Enjoyed By American Indians Born In Canada To Freely Access The United States, Greg Boos, Greg Mclawsen, Heather Fathali
Canadian Indians, Inuit, Métis, And Métis: An Exploration Of The Unparalleled Rights Enjoyed By American Indians Born In Canada To Freely Access The United States, Greg Boos, Greg Mclawsen, Heather Fathali
Border Policy Research Institute Publications
Certain American Indians born in Canada (ABCs) enjoy access to the United States unrestricted by the Immigration and Nationality (INA), a right stemming from the Jay Treaty (1794). An examination of this right, reflected by codification as § 289 of the INA, reveals qualifying ABCs are entitled to privileges unparalleled by all but United States citizens to enter and remain in the U.S. “for the purpose of employment, study, retirement, investing, and/or immigration”4 or any other reason.
An Assessment Of Future Bilateral Trade Flows And Their Implications For U.S. Border Infrastructure Investment, Steven Globerman, Paul Storer
An Assessment Of Future Bilateral Trade Flows And Their Implications For U.S. Border Infrastructure Investment, Steven Globerman, Paul Storer
Border Policy Research Institute Publications
There are frequent calls for investment in border infrastructure given security-related delays and transportation bottlenecks associated with physical infrastructure described as outdated and inadequate. Given the potentially large investment expenditures needed to expand inspection and transportation infrastructure at border crossing sites, as well as the irreversibility of many of the investments that might need to be made, it is important that government decision-makers base spending choices on highly-informed forward-looking projections of capacity demands on traffic corridors through which bilateral commercial shipments are likely to travel.
Suggestions For Improving Cross-Border Mobility And North American Competitiveness, Border Policy Research Institute
Suggestions For Improving Cross-Border Mobility And North American Competitiveness, Border Policy Research Institute
Border Policy Research Institute Publications
On May 15, 2014, the BPRI hosted a conference titled “Beyond NAFTA: Streamlining the Border to Strengthen North American Competitiveness.” With two decades of NAFTA behind us, and with the U.S.-Canada “Beyond the Border” (BtB) agenda near the end of its phase-one timeline, speakers were asked to produce ideas about what should next be done in order to foster crossborder mobility
Judging Sodom: Gay Identity In Bowers, Romer & Lawrence, Logan Steele
Judging Sodom: Gay Identity In Bowers, Romer & Lawrence, Logan Steele
WWU Graduate School Collection
This paper presents a novel method for understanding how the Supreme Court constructs identities. Applying Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality to pivotal Supreme Court decisions which solidified gay identity were analyzed using Bowers v. Hardwick, Romer v. Evans, and Lawrence v. Texas. The results of this investigation show that the Court’s construction of gay identity changed with each case, sculpted by what they perceived at the time as most productive for American society. The work presented here has profound implications for the future study of the Supreme Court and contributes to our understanding of the workings of institutions in the …