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George Hoberg specializes in environmental and natural resource policy and governance. He received a BS from UC Berkeley, and his PhD from MIT. A political scientist by training, Dr Hoberg taught public policy and American politics at UBC for 13 years before joining the Faculty of Forestry full time in 2001. His research interests include energy policy, forest policy, and more generally the design of policies and institutions to promote sustainability. His current research is focused on BC electricity policy and environmental governance of the oil sands. He has also published on the role of science in policy-making and international constraints on domestic policy autonomy. He is co-author of the forthcoming book Canadian Tenure Policies and Sustainable Forest Management. He has also written books on BC forest policy, environmental policy in the US, toxic substances regulation, and edited two books on comparative Canada-US policies and the US influence on Canada. From 2001-2006, he was head of the Department of Forest Resources Management at UBC. He blogs at http://greenpolicyprof.org/wordpress |
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Sustainable Energy Policy: Alberta's Oil Sands and BC Electricity
BC Electricity Export Policy (Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions)
The Politics of Climate Change Mitigation
Evolving Governance of Forest Resources in British Columbia
The Science-Politics Dilemma in Environmental Policy |
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- Laura Bird, MSc - Making the New Relationship Work: Crown-First Nations Shared Decision-making in the "Great Bear Rainforest"
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- Jennifer Romero Valpreda, MSc, Resource Management and Environmental Studies
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UBC Killam Memorial Faculty Research Fellowship, 1992-93
John Vanderkamp Prize for 1994 for best article published in Canadian Public Policy, for George Hoberg and Kathryn Harrison, “It’s Not Easy Being Green: The Politics of Canada’s Green Plan”
UBC Killam Research Prize, 1996
Canada-US Fulbright Scholar, 1999-2000 |
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FRST 415 Sustainable Forest Policy
CONS 425/POLI 351 Sustainable Energy – Policy and Governance
CONS 449C sec 102 - Social Mobilization and Advocacy for Climate Sustainability
FRST 523 - Forest and Environmental Policy
CEEN 590 - Energy Policy |
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blog: http://greenpolicyprof.org/wordpress
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| Mabee, Holly, D.B. Tindall, George Hoberg, and J.P. Gladu. (2013) Co-Management of Forest Lands. The Cases of Clayoquot Sound, and Gwaii Haanas. Pp. 242-259 in Aboriginal Peoples and Forest Lands in Canada, edited by D.B. Tindall, Ronald L. Trosper and Pamela Perreault., Vancouver, B.C.: University of British Columbia Press. |
| Jason Forsyth, George Hoberg, and Laura Bird (2013) In Search of Certainty: A Decade of Shifting Strategies for Accommodating First Nations in Forest Policy, 2001-2011 pp. 299-312 in Aboriginal Peoples and Forest Lands in Canada, edited by D.B. Tindall, Ronald L. Trosper and Pamela Perreault., UBC Press |
| Hoberg, G and L. Malkinson (2012) Challenges in the Design of Performance-Based Forestry Regulations: Lessons from British Columbia Forest Policy and Economics |
| Lisa Ambua and George Hoberg (2011) The Evolution of Devolution: A Critical Analysis of the Community Forest Agreement in British Columbia Vol 24, no. 9, pp 933-950, Society & Natural Resources |
| M.K. (Marty) Luckert, David Haley, George Hoberg (2011) Policies for Sustainably Managing Canada's Forests: Tenure, Stumpage Fees, and Forest Practices UBC Press, 2011, 214 pp |
| George Hoberg and Amy Sopinka (2011) The Export Question: Designing Policy for British Columbia Electricity Trade Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions |
| George Hoberg (2011) The Gordon Campbell legacy for Super, Natural British Columbia commentary in Vancouver Sun March 14, 2011, Vancouver Sun |
| George Hoberg (2011) B.C. Natural Resource Super Ministry II B.C. Business January 04, 2011, B.C. Business |
| George Hoberg and Jeffrey Phillips (2011) Playing Defence: Early Responses to Conflict Expansion in the Oil Sands Policy Subsystem Canadian Journal of Political Science 44: pp 507-527 |
| George Hoberg and Andrea Rivers (2011) Should Canada Approve the Construction of a Pipeline from the Oil Sands to the West Coast of Canada? The Enbridge Northern Gateway Case http://www.studentenergy.org/images/downloads/ISES%202011%20Northern%20Gateway%20Pipeline%20Case.pdf, International Student Energy Summit, Vancouver, BC |
| George Hoberg (2010) Bringing the Market Back In: BC Natural Resource Policies During the Campbell Years British Columbia Politics and Government, Micheal Howlett, Dennis Pilon, and Tracy Sommerville, eds, (Toronto: Edmond Montgomery, 2010) |
| Forsyth J., R. Trosper, G. Hoberg and G. Bull (2010) Who’s got the Power: Analysis of Aboriginal Decision-Making Authority in Canadian Forest Management Arrangements Submitted, Society & Natural Resources |
| George Hoberg with Gerard MacDonald (2010) The Export Question: Under what conditions should BC become a major exporter of electricity? Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions |
| Trosper, R. L., H. Nelson, G. Hoberg, P. Smith and W. Nikolakis (2008) Institutional Determinants of Profitable Commercial Forestry Enterprises Among First Nations in Canada -Canadian Journal of Forest Research 38(2): 226-238, -NRC Research Press |
| George Hoberg (2008) Geopolitics Forest Futures Project, Sustainable Forest Management Network |
| George Hoberg (2008) Governance Forest Futures Project, Sustainable Forest Management Network |
| Jordan Best and George Hoberg (2008) Alberta’s Oil Sands: Key Issues and Impacts |
| George Hoberg (2007) EBM and the Politics of Compromise http://www.abcfp.ca/publications_forms/BCFORmagazine/pdf/BCFORPRO-2007-2.pdf, BC Forest Professional, March-April 2007, p. 12. |
| Mabee, H.N.S and Hoberg, G (2006) Equal Partners? Assessing co-management of forest resources in Clayoquot Sound 19 Number 10/November-December, pp. 875-888., Society and Natural Resources |
| Kim McGarrity and George Hoberg (2005) The Beetle Challenge: An Overview of the Mountain Pine Beetle Epidemic and its Implications Issue Brief, Forest Policy Resources website. |
| Hoberg, G. (2004) Science, Politics, and U.S. Forest Law: The Battle over the Forest Service Planning Rule vol 44, no 1 (2004): 1-27, Natural Resources Journal |
| Clogg, J., G. Hoberg, A. O''Carroll (2004) Policy and Institutional Analysis for Implementation of the Ecosystem-Based Management Framework February 2004. 162 pp. to be published on CIT website April 5, 2004., Coast Information Team |
| Mabee, H.N.S. and G. Hoberg (2004) Protecting culturally significant areas through watershed planning in Clayoquot Sound vol 80, no. 2, March/April 2004, 229-240, Forestry Chronicle |
| McDermott, C and G. Hoberg (2003) From State to Market: Forestry Certification in the United States and Canada Pp. 229-250 in Schindler, B, T.M. Beckley, and M.C. Finley, eds., Two Paths Towards Sustainable Forests., Oregon State University Press |
| George Hoberg (2003) The Optimal Choice of Regulatory Approach: Concepts and Case Studies from Forestry Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, June 5-8, 2003, Pittsburgh. |
| Forest Practices Board, Terje Vold, George Hoberg, Rod Beaumont (2003) The Experience of Forest Management Practices in British Columbia: Vision, Challenges, and Approaches Joint submission by Forest Practices Board, Terje Vold, George Hoberg, Rod Beaumont to the 12th United Nations World Forestry Conference in Quebec City Sept. 23 |
| Hoberg, G. (2003) Greater professional reliance challenges foresters’ credibility July/August 2003, vol 10, no. 4, p. 21, Forum |
| Hoberg, G, R Guy, S Hinch, RA Kozak, P McFarlane and SB Watts (2003) Image and Enrolments. Forum 10(6):22-23. |
| Hoberg, George, Keith Banting and Richard Simeon. (2002) "The Scope for Domestic Choice: Policy Autonomy in a Globalized World," George Hoberg, (ed.) Capacity for Choice: Canada in a New North America, pp. 252-299., Toronto: University of Toronto Press |
| Hoberg, George (2002) Capacity for Choice: Canada in a New North America. 346 pp. (sole author of introduction and conclusion) Toronto: University of Toronto Press. |
| George Hoberg (2002) Finding the Right Balance Report of Stakeholder Consultations on A Results-Based Forest and Range Practices Regime for British Columbia July 25, 2002. |
| George Hoberg (2002) Integrated Executive Summary: Report of Consultations on A Results-Based Forest and Range Practices Regime for British Columbia, July 25, 2002 www.resultsbasedcode.ca |
| George Hoberg (2002) Finding the Right Balance: Designing Policies for Sustainable Forestry in the New Era Jubilee Lecture Series, Faculty of Forestry, UBC, September 12, 2002. |
| Rayner, J., M. Howlett, J. Wilson, B. Cashore, and G. Hoberg. (2001) Privileging the sub-sector: Critical sub-sectors and sectoral relationships in forest policy-making. Forest Policy and Economics 2(3-4):319-332. |
| Hoberg, George. (2001) The emerging triumph of ecosystem management: The transformation of federal forest policy. Pp. 55-86 in Charles Davis (ed.), Environmental Politics and Western Public Lands. 2nd edition., Westview Press, Boulder. |
| Amos, William, Kathryn Harrison and George Hoberg. (2001) In search of a minimum winning coalition: The politics of species at risk legislation in Canada. : Canada and Endangered Species. Pp. 137-166 in Karen Beazley and Robert Boardman (eds.), Politics of the Wild, Oxford University Press, Toronto. |
| Hoberg, George. (2001) The British Columbia Forest Practices Code: Formalization and its Effects. Michael Howlett (ed.), Canadian Forest Policy: Adapting to Change, Toronto: University of Toronto Press. pp 348-377 |
| Cashore, Benjamin, George Hoberg, Michael Howlett, Jeremy Rayner, and Jeremy Wilson (eds.). (2001) In Search of Sustainability: Forest Policy in British Columbia in the 1990s. UBC Press, Vancouver, B.C. 329 pp. |
| Hoberg, George. (2001) Trade, Harmonization, and Domestic Autonomy in Environmental Policy Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis 3: 191-217. |
| Hoberg, George. (2001) Globalization and Policy Convergence: Symposium Overview Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis 3: 127-132. |
| Hoberg, George. (2001) Canadian-American Environmental Regulations: A Strategic Framework Robert Boardman and Debora Van Nijnatten (eds.), Canadian Environmental Policy, 2nd ed. Toronto,pp. 171-189., Oxford University Press |
| Hoberg, George and Paul Howe. (2000) Law knowledge, and national interests in trade disputes: The softwood lumber case. Journal of World Trade 34(2):109-130. |
| Hoberg, George. (2000) Canada and North American Integration. Canadian Public Policy – analyse de Politiques 26(2):S35-S50. |
| Hoberg, George. (2000) How the way we make policy governs the policy we choose. Pp. 26-53 in Donald Alper and Debra Salazar (eds.), Forging Truces in the War in the Woods: Sustaining the Forests of the Pacific Northwest., UBC Press, Vancouver, B.C. |
| Hoberg, George and Detmar Schwitchenberg. (1999) "Getting More Benefits From BC Forest Lands: The Intensive Zoning Option," Discussion Paper for the BC Forest Policy Review. |
| Hoberg, George. (1999) Can Canada still make distinctive policy choices. Horizons 2(6):8-9. |
| Hoberg, George. (1999) The Coming Revolution in Regulating our Forests Policy Options/Options Politiques, (December 1999): 53-56. |
| Hoberg, George. (1998) Foresters, trust and civic science: a new role for the profession? RPF Forum 5(1):25. |
| Hoberg, George. (1998) North American environmental regulations. pp. 305-327 in Doern, G.B. and S. Wilks (eds.), British and North American Regulatory Institutions., University of Toronto Press, Toronto, ON. |
| Hoberg, George. (1998) Distinguishing Learning from Other Sources of Policy Change: The Case of Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Prepared for Delivery at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, September 3-6, 1998.- |
| Banting, Keith, George Hoberg and Richard Simeon (1997) "Introduction" Degrees of Freedom, pp 13 - 22. |
| Banting, Keith, George Hoberg and Richard Simeon (1997) Degrees of Freedom: Canada and the United States in a Changing Global Context(493 pp). Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press |
| Harrison, Kathryn and George Hoberg (1997) Setting the environmental agenda in Canada and the United States: The cases of dioxin and radon. pp. 463-487 in Sheila Jasanoff (ed.), Comparative Science and Technology Policy., Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK. |
| Hoberg, George. (1997) The war of words in the woods. Vancouver Sun, July 12. |
| Hoberg, George. (1997) From Localism to Legalism: The Transformation of US Forest Policy. Charles Davis, (ed.), Western Public Lands and Environmental Politics,, Boulder: Westview Press. |
| Hoberg, George and Edward Morawski (1997) Policy change through sector intersection: forest and aboriginal policy in Clayoquot Sound. Can. Public Admin. 40(3):387-414. |
| Hoberg, George. (1997) "Governing the Environment: Environmental Policy in Canada and the United States" Degrees of Freedom, pp 341 - 88. |
| Simeon, Richard, George Hoberg and Keith Banting (1997) Globalization, Fragmentation, and the Social Contract in Degrees of Freedom. |
| Harrison, Kathryn and George Hoberg. (1996) In Defense of Regulation: A Rejoinder to Benoit Laplant. Canadian Public Policy - Analyse de Politiques, XXII (June 1996). |
| Hoberg, George. (1996) Putting Ideas in Their Place: A Response to Learning and Change in the British Columbia Forest Policy Sector. Canadian Journal of Political Science, XXIX (March 1996):135-144. |
| George HOBERG (1996) The Politics of Sustainability: Forest Policy in British Columbia. In: Ken Carty (ed.), Politicsm Policy and Government in British Columbia, Vancouver: ., UBC Press |
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George Hoberg
Environmental and Natural Resource Policy and Governance
Forest Policy
Energy Policy
B.S. (1980) University of California, Berkeley Ph.D (1987) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Faculty of Forestry
The University of British Columbia
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#2045 - 2424 Main Mall
Vancouver, British Columbia
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