Developing a community forest in British Columbia involves multiple stakeholder
agreements; negotiating agreement within diverse communities can be especially
complicated. In this study I use the constant comparative method from grounded theory to
compare data from two case studies and examine the conflict resolution techniques used by
community forest developers throughout their development initiatives. Data were collected
through interviews with community forest developers with a focus on the process of
development, the conflict resolution strategies used, and the successes and failures
throughout the process. The findings from this thesis indicate that community forest
developers engage in a process that I call Developing a Community Forest. This process
includes five categories of action: Building an Idea of Community Forestry, Being Aware of
the Box, Coming Toward Conflict, Using Dispute Resolution Strategies, and Practicing
Community Forestry. By articulating this process future community forest developers can
access the methods of conflict resolution described in this thesis in their attempts to
successfully develop community forestry in other local forest areas.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uvic.ca/oai:dspace.library.uvic.ca:1828/1798 |
| Date | 26 October 2009 |
| Creators | Corrigan, Joselin |
| Contributors | Lawson, James |
| Source Sets | University of Victoria |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Rights | Available to the World Wide Web |
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