Democracy and the Space of Energy Flows: The Practice of Bordered Transnationalism in the Pacific Northwest

Belec, John; Buckley, Patrick H.

doi:10.1080/08865655.2014.938967

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“…Such was the case in the early years of this decade in our study area. A proposal, to build SE2, a second, gas-fired, electrical generation plant in Sumas WA, approximately eight kilometers from Abbotsford BC City Hall, generated a protracted legal battle and grassroots furor over diminished air quality, which lasted from 2000 until 2006 [ 33 ]. Although the protest had bi-national elements, it was heavily weighted on the Canadian side of the border.…”

Section: The Setting: the Fraser Lowlandmentioning

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Environmental Resource Management in Borderlands: Evolution from Competing Interests to Common Aversions

Buckley

Belec

Levy

2015

IJERPH

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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.

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Section: The Setting: the Fraser Lowlandmentioning

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Environmental Resource Management in Borderlands: Evolution from Competing Interests to Common Aversions

Buckley

Belec

Levy

2015

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“…However, studies by Anaka and Jones raise cautionary notes regarding the level of success and longevity of such efforts [5,9]. In regards to airshed management, Belec and Buckley documented a battle over a merchant power plant (A merchant power plant is constructed at what is determined to be a low cost location based on inputs, environmental constraints, and the export of power that is sold onto the international grid to the highest bidder irrespective of location, bringing the benefits of jobs and tax base to the local area, but also the negative externalities of pollution) SE2 (Sumas Electric 2) that was proposed for an American site within a kilometer of the international border crossing of Sumas-Huntingdon (refer back to Map 1) with potential benefits and definite environmental impacts on each side [7,8]. This contested development resulted in the straining of local municipal ad hoc cross-border relationships and eventually in appeals to more distant topocratic institutions to step in, further alienating some of the local actors.…”

Section: North American Cross-border Regions (Cbr's) and A Models Of mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Fraser Lowland (Map 1), a sub-region of Cascadia along the western Canadian-American border, faces spillover of such resource management issues [4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. This has occurred as the old topocratic era of federally-based government has moved into what Leresche and Saez have typified as a current era of Crisis of Governability that is attempting to move into an era of Cross-Border Cooperation (CBC) and adhocratic governance based on Cross-Border Regions [11].…”

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Modeling Cross-Border Regions, Place-Making, and Resource Management: A Delphi Analysis

2017

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Along international borders, spillover of resource management issues is a growing challenge. Development of cross-border regions (CBRs) is seen as an emerging means of addressing these issues. A set of theoretical models, geo-economic mobilization and a resource-focused territorial program of place-making have been proposed as a lens for understanding why such change could occur. From this theory, we identify three C's as critical initial or necessary conditions to start the process: common territorial identity, convergence of knowledge and values, willingness for cooperation. We then utilize results of a Delphi study in the Fraser Lowland, a sub-district of the American-Canadian Cascadia borderland, to test if these three are present and actively working together. Our analysis based on both cumulative logit and mixed-effect modeling confirms the active existence of the three C's demonstrating the value of these theoretical models. However, the Delphi also shows that not all in this region are convinced of cross-border convergence and case studies provide mixed signals of successful cross-border resource management, indicating that sufficient conditions are yet to be fully met. Thus, our results confirm the value of these models as a lens to view events, but leave many questions to be researched.

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A “spatially just” transition? A critical review of regional equity in decarbonisation pathways

Garvey

Norman

Büchs

et al. 2022

Energy Research & Social Science

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Democracy and the Space of Energy Flows: The Practice of Bordered Transnationalism in the Pacific Northwest

Cited by 3 publications

References 14 publications

Environmental Resource Management in Borderlands: Evolution from Competing Interests to Common Aversions

Environmental Resource Management in Borderlands: Evolution from Competing Interests to Common Aversions

Modeling Cross-Border Regions, Place-Making, and Resource Management: A Delphi Analysis

A “spatially just” transition? A critical review of regional equity in decarbonisation pathways

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