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CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH
Volume 48, Issue 10, Pages 1241-1245Publisher
CANADIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1139/cjfr-2017-0465
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adaptation; climate change; mechanisms; mitigation; policy
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We comment on the recent comprehensive review Barriers to enhanced and integrated climate change adaptation and mitigation in Canadian forest management by Williamson and Nelson (2017, Can. J. For. Res. 47: 1567-1576, doi: 10.1139/cjfr-2017-0252). They employ the popular barriers analysis approach and present a synthesis highlighting the numerous barriers facing Canadian forest managers. The underlying functionalist assumptions of such an approach are highly problematic from both a scholarly and a practical policy perspective. We argue that social scientists engaged in climate change research who want to influence policy-making should understand and then empirically apply causal mechanisms. Methods such as process tracing and qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) are promising tools that can be employed in national-or local-level assessments.
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