Community Goals – Policy Interactions
- Through a review of published documents and group discussions at community meetings, we (scientists and community experts) agreed that the major elements of community sustainability are:
- Use of, and respect for, the land and animals in their homelands.
- A cash economy that is compatible with, and supports, continued local use of the land and animals.
- Local control and responsibility for what is done in village homelands and what happens to resources used by the community.
- Education of younger people in both traditional knowledge and western science, and education of the outside world about community goals and ways of living.
- A thriving culture that has a clear identity, is based on time on the land and language, which honors and respects elders.
- We developed a written framework for policy analysis. The analysis will have three major components:
- The role of non-local policies as factors affecting the nature of the "forces for change";
- The role of non-local policies as factors affecting the impact of "forces for change" on communities; and,
- The role of non-local policies as they affect the results of local policies adopted in response to the "forces for change."
- We have initiated background research into community tourism development objectives and community tourism case-studies for use in building of a tourism scenario model. This work involves a collaboration of community experts and two scientists, an economist and an anthropologist.
- We are incorporating jurisdictional boundaries into our GIS database.
- In year three of the project, we will develop scenarios for alternative types of tourism and non-local hunting as well as more detailed scenarios for oil development. We will then work with communities to identify local policy options for each scenario.
- In year three we will also examine the relationships between non-local policies and community goals. We expect to focus on resource management regimes (i.e. land and caribou) and on oil development planning, design, and management.
- In year four we will work with community experts, using the synthesis model to examine alternative futures.
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This page revised June 24, 1997.
