Title
Dispersed capacity and weak coordination: The challenge of climate change adaptation in Canada's forest policy sector
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-9-2013
Abstract
Constitutional and institutional legacies were combined to create a very decentralized forest policy sector in Canada. Where coherent policy requires a national response—as is the case with adaptation to climate change—the critical challenge is to locate the relevant decentralized policy capacity and steer it toward meeting national objectives. While there is some evidence that significant policy capacity exists in provincial forest and resource management departments, climate change adaptation has led to an expansion of departmental mandates that is not being addressed by better coordination of the available policy capacity. The relevant federal agencies are not well represented in information networks and forest policy workers report lower levels of internal and external networking than workers in related policy subsectors.
Publication Title
Review of Policy Research
Recommended Citation
Rayner, J.,
McNutt, K.,
&
Wellstead, A.
(2013).
Dispersed capacity and weak coordination: The challenge of climate change adaptation in Canada's forest policy sector.
Review of Policy Research,
30(1), 66-90.
http://doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12003
Retrieved from: https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/social-sciences-fp/22
Publisher's Statement
© 2013 by The Policy Studies Organization. Publisher's version of record: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12003