Session 12: Framing and Re-Framing Environmental Issues

Reading Assignments: Wimberley and Pellegrino's Ecopragmatics - Chapters 5 & 6

Video Assignment:Extremely Dangerous Jobs: Lumberjacks and Logging; Northwest Old Growth Forest Campaign; Future Forest Management in the Pacific Northwest; America's Forests; West Coast Logging Legacy; Timber Industry Turmoil; Controversy and Challenges of Conserving the Northern Spotted Owl

Homework Assignment:

1. Explain "satisficing" and how it relates to "bounded rationality" in decision making.
2. Define "decision frame" and "frame logic."
3. Explain "goal framing theory."
4. What is Haidt's contribution to framing?
5. How would mill owners "frame" their shortage of logs for cutting in their mills?
6. Similarly, how would timber companies who export logs "frame" their situation?
7. How would you expect loggers to frame the controversy regarding the shortage of logs to be milled domestically in the Pacific Northwest?
8. Who "frames" the policy debate on behalf of the northern spotted owl and how do they frame the issue?