Environmental Studies Faculty and Staff Publications
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-2015
Keywords
Cross border regions, Cross border resource management, Game theory, Canada-United States border region
Abstract
Great enthusiasm is attached to the emergence of cross-border regions (CBRs) as a new institutional arrangement for dealing with local cross-border environmental resource management and other issues that remain too distant from national capitals and/or too expensive to be addressed in the traditional topocratic manner requiring instead local adhocratic methods. This study briefly discusses the perceived value of CBRs and necessary and sufficient conditions for the successful and sustainable development of such places. Then, assuming that necessary conditions can be met, the study investigates an intriguing hypothesis concerning the catalyzing of sustainable consensus for cross-border resource management based on a game theoretical approach that employs the use of dilemma of common aversion rather than the more traditional dilemma of competing common interests. Using this lens to investigate a series of events on the Pacific northwestern Canadian-American border in a part of the Fraser Lowland, we look for evidence of the emergence of an active and sustainable CBR to address local trans-border resource management issues. Although our micro-level scale fails to conclusively demonstrate such evidence, it does demonstrate the value of using this approach and suggests a number of avenues for further research.
Publication Title
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Volume
12
Issue
7
First Page
7541
Last Page
7557
DOI
10.3390/ijerph120707541
Required Publisher's Statement
Copyright by the authors
Recommended Citation
Buckley, Patrick Henry; Belec, John; and Levy, Jason. 2015. Environmental Resource Management in Borderlands: Evolution from Competing Interests to Common Aversions. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2015, vol.12, no.7 doi: 10.3390/ijerph120707541
Subjects - Topical (LCSH)
Borderlands--Environmental aspects--Canada; Borderlands--Environmental aspects--United States; Environmental management--International cooperation; Natural resources--Co-management; Natural resources--International cooperation; Game theory
Genre/Form
articles
Type
Text
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Language
English
Format
application/pdf
