Comment on “Barriers to enhanced and integrated climate change adaptation and mitigation in Canadian forest management”
Document Type
Response or Comment
Publication Date
4-19-2018
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.
Publication Title
Canadian Journal of Forest Research
Recommended Citation
Wellstead, A.,
Biesbroek, R.,
Cairney, P.,
Davidson, D.,
Dupuis, J.,
Howlett, M.,
Rayner, J.,
&
Stedman, R.
(2018).
Comment on “Barriers to enhanced and integrated climate change adaptation and mitigation in Canadian forest management”.
Canadian Journal of Forest Research,
48(10), 1241-1245.
http://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2017-0465
Retrieved from: https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/social-sciences-fp/141
Publisher's Statement
© 2018 the author(s). Publisher's version of record: https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2017-0465