Course Overview
This course examines the process of natural resource policy development and the relationships of law to political processes and resource management.
Prerequisite(s)
- No prerequisites are required for this course.
Credits
1.0
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Learning Outcomes
- Understand the overall, six-step, policy process model
- Discuss the roles of the democratic process, inter-group competition, and powerful elites in resource policy development.
- Discuss how the following factors affect policy: decision making processes & criteria; power and influence; competing and changing values; political strategies; multiple participants/stakeholders.
- Give examples of individuals, groups, agencies and strategies that are typically involved in the process of policy development.
- Discuss five important generalizations about policy formulation.
- Compare and contrast the applicability of the Rational Comprehensive vs. the Rational Incremental models of decision making for policy selection.
- Explain the importance of efficiency, effectiveness, equity and ethical criteria in policy development.
- Explain the relevance of actors and organisations, motives and available resources in developing fair and equitable resource related policies.
- Describe 6 important requirements for successful policy implementation.
- Describe 5 common obstacles to thorough policy evaluation.
- Give examples of 11 kinds of Evaluators who often participate in policy evaluation.
- Describe the importance of and some common obstacles to Policy Termination.
- Assess a BC natural resource or environmental policy assigned by your instructor (such as the BC forest practices code) using the six-step policy development model.
Effective as of Fall 2003
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