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This book explores how advocacy groups negotiate and strategize in increasingly competitive and complex political situations. By focusing on two cases of forest policy in the U.S. and Canada, which, given their similarities and differences, had unexpected outcomes, Pralle shows the different ways advocacy groups exploit new opportunities and overcome constraints. Both cases, the Clayoquot Sound controversy in British Columbia and the Quincy Library Group case in the Sierra Nevada mountains of northern California, centered around conflicts between environmentalists seeking to preserve old-tree forests and timber companies fighting to preserve their logging privileges. Both marked important episodes in the history of forest politics in their respective countries, but with dramatically different results. The Clayoquot Sound controversy spawned the largest civil disobedience in Canadian history, international demonstrations in Japan, England, Germany, Austria, and the United States, and the most significant changes in British Columbia's forest policy in decades. On the other hand, the California case, with four times as many acres at stake, became the poster child for the "colla

Who reads Branching Out, Digging In: Environmental Advocacy and Agenda Setting (American Governance and Public Policy)?

Author

Sarah Beth Pralle

Publisher

Georgetown University Press

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781589012806

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Management, Political Science, Economics