OTTAWA, February 6, 2003 — Industry Minister Allan Rock today released a report by Professor Rodney Dobell, who was commissioned to review the process of authorization of broadcast towers on Triangle Mountain near Colwood, British Columbia. Read more »

Devolution and Discretion: Building Community-Based Resource Management into Contemporary Governance in New Players, Partners and Processes: A Public Sector without Boundaries? John Langford and Meredith Edwards (eds). Canberra: National Institute for Governance, 2002.

(with Katherine Barrett and Stuart Lee) Whose Knowledge Counts? How do we Count it?, presentation to National Policy Research Conference, October 2002.

(with Claire Abbott) Lifting the moratoria, submission to the Scientific Review Panel, BC Offshore Hydrocarbon Development, University of Victoria, January 2002.

B.C. Offshore Hydrocarbon Development: Environmental Risks and Policy Perspectives, presentation for B.C. Offshore Oil and Gas Conference, Vancouver, BC, October 2, 2001 (revised October 3).

"Implementation", in Learning to Manage Global Environmental Risks, Volume 1: A Comparativ History of Social Responses to Climate Change, Ozone Depletion and Acid Rain. Social Learning Group (Clark, W.C., Jaeger, Jill and van Eijndhoven, J. (eds)). MIT Press, 2001.

Social Capital, Social Policy and Governance, paper presented at the Queen’s International Institute on Social Policy, August, 2001.

Partnerships with Citizens, paper prepared for National Institute for Governance workshop on New Players, Partners and Processes: A Public Sector without Boundaries?, Canberra, April 5, 2001, to appear in the workshop proceedings to be edited by Meredith Edwards and John Langford.

Social Risk, Political Rationality, and Official Responsibility: Risk Management in Context, The Walkerton Inquiry, Commissioned Paper 13, 2001.

Creative Institutional Structures in Governance and Research—A Case Study in Community-based Research, invited contribution prepared for a panel under the theme Organizations and Environments, SASEM International Conference, Netherlands, July 1, 2001.

(with Martin Bunton) Sound Governance: The Recent Emergence of New Networks and Collaborative Institutions in the Clayoquot Sound Region, a monograph commissioned by the National Roundtable on Environment and Economy for the Policy Research Secretariat, for a series of workshops on Adaptive and Community-Based Management. May, 2001.

Community-Based Resource Management: Have we opened Pandora’s Box?, address to Environment Australia management, Canberra, April 9, 2001.

What’s Changed in the Last Three Decades?, notes for participation in the National Institute of Governance workshop “Policy, Players and Politics: The Policy Advice Process”, Canberra, April 9, 2001.

Who’s Minding Victoria’s Liquid Waste Management Business, invited paper for CSRS 2001 Community Seminar, April 30/May 1, 2001, to appear in the proceedings edited by Harold Coward.

Social Capital and Social Learning in a Basin Becoming Full.  Presentation (with Krista Iverson) to the Georgia Basin Futures Project Research Team (with minor revisions, 2002)

Bitsphere, Biosphere and Basic Income, invited presentation to the Walter Gordon Forum, Massey College, May 4, 2000; proceedings published August 2002. Partial draft notes (for discussion only).

Social Capital and Community-based Management in West Coast Fisheries, invited paper presented at International Institute for Fisheries Economics and Trade International Conference, Corvallis, Oregon, July 2000.

Social Learning and Social Capital in a Full World, OECD/HRDC Symposium on The Role of Human and Social Capital in Economic Growth and Sustained Well-being, March, 2000. Symposium Proceedings edited by John Helliwell, published by OECD, 2001.

Learning to Manage Environmental Risks: Canada in the Global Arena, invited presentation in a panel on Canada’s role in international environmental management, organized by Dobell for the PRS 2000 Policy Research Conference, Ottawa, December, 2000.

Partnering with Other Institutions - IFFY (IFI) Business, notes for presentation to the a workshop on International Directions in Research (University of Victoria, Dunsmuir Lodge, Sept 16, 2000).

"Implementing Principles for Sustainable Fisheries", in Randall Peterman et al (eds) Canadian Marine Fisheries in a Changing and Uncertain World. National Research Council: NRC Press, 1999.

Who holds the pen? Notes in response to the Marshall Decision.

Amending rights to nature. Draft paper.

"Compliance and Constraint: Economic Instruments in Context", in Chris Tollefson (ed) The Wealth of Forests: Markets, Regulation and Sustainable Forestry. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1998.

NAFTA, NAC and NAMI: Perspectives -- Second generation challenges and second decade agenda, notes for observations (NAMI 10th Anniversary Forum - Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 19-21, 1998).

Social capital formation and institutions for sustainability, proceedings from workshop chaired at the Sustainable Development Research Institute, University of British Columbia, November 16 - 17, 1998.

(with Luc Bernier) Citizen-centered governance: Implications for inter-governmental Canada in Alternative Service Delivery. Robin Ford and David Zussman (eds.). IPAC-KPMG, 1997.

Complexity, Connectedness and Civil Purpose: Public Administration in the Congested Global Village, Canadian Public Administration, Vol. 40, No. 2 (Summer 1997) 346-370.

(with Darcy Mitchell) Resource Management and Sustainability in British Columbia, Public Administration in Canada, Jacques Bourgault, Cynthia Williams and Maurice Demers (eds.) IIAS, Quebec City, 1997.

The public servant as God: Taking risks with the public, address to the National Conference on Management in the Public Sector, Victoria, April 22, 1986.

(with Ted Parson) Approaches to risk in public management.

(with Ted Parson) Public Policy in a Risky World.

(with Ted Parson) Collective decisions involving risk: A literature review, IRPP Working Paper, August 1986.

The Arithmetic of Risk: Analytical Problems and Political Solutions.

What's The B.C. Spirit? Recent Experience in the Management of Restraint, notes for presentation (Institute of Public Administration of Canada - National Conference, August 1983).

Consultation, Conflict Resolution and Social Adjustment, notes for presentation to the Macdonald Royal Commission (Victoria, B.C., 1983).