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Book Synopsis Community-based Ecosystem Monitoring in British Columbia by : Patrick Yarnell
Download or read book Community-based Ecosystem Monitoring in British Columbia written by Patrick Yarnell and published by Kamloops, B.C. : FORREX. This book was released on 2003 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick Yarnell, an environmental planning and management consultant from Vancouver, had the right combination of knowledge and expertise for the project, and was contracted in the fall of 2001 to research and write a preliminary report to submit to the Board. [...] To successfully engage the public, a government must understand the motivations of volunteers; to provide quality data, volunteers must understand the requirements of a structured monitoring program; and, to facilitate the sharing of knowledge, an extension organization must understand the relationships and gaps between the needs of decision makers, NGOs, and volunteers. [...] In their study of the participation of public stewardship and advocacy groups in the protection of fish habitat, Rosenau and Angelo (2001) profiled three groups: the Alouette River Management Society (ARMS), the Pitt River and Area Watershed Network (PRAWN), and the Burnaby Lake System Project (BLSP). [...] The Ecosystem Monitoring and Assessment Network and the Canadian Nature Federation have similar partnerships and programs for WormWatch (with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada) and IceWatch (with the Meteorological Service of Canada and Laval University). [...] The CDC maintains a Biological and Conservation Data System of occurrence records, and produces reports of the occurrence and rarity (global and provincial) of species.
Book Synopsis Two Approaches to Ecosystem-based Management in British Columbia, Canada by : Dionne Bunsha
Download or read book Two Approaches to Ecosystem-based Management in British Columbia, Canada written by Dionne Bunsha and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My research examines two approaches to ecosystem-based management (EBM) in coastal British Columbia (B.C.) -- Clayoquot Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island and the Great Bear Rainforest (GBR) in the central and north coast of B.C. The first paper is an evaluation of the implementation of the Clayoquot Sound Scientific Panel's (CSSP) recommendations, which introduced EBM in Clayoquot Sound. The second paper focuses on community-based monitoring by the Coastal Guardian Watchmen Network (CGWN) in the GBR and how they could incorporate lessons from other case studies around the world. The CGWN is a network of stewards from ten First Nations communities in the GBR, who monitor their natural and cultural resources. Together, these two papers provide insights into new approaches to conservation that are collaborative and holistic, incorporating local knowledge and concerns.
Book Synopsis Improving Local Decision-making Through Community Based Monitoring by : Canada. Environment Canada
Download or read book Improving Local Decision-making Through Community Based Monitoring written by Canada. Environment Canada and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report describes a pilot project to determine the best approaches for engaging communities in ecosystem monitoring activities that contribute to local sustainability. It first reviews the traditional use of environmental information in communities and the concept of community based monitoring (CBM). It then describes the initiation of the Canadian Community Monitoring Network, lists the communities participating in the pilot project, and presents results & case studies from the project related to community mapping, participation, capacity building, and information gathering & delivery. Lessons learned & critical success factors are outlined along with key outcomes from the pilot project. The final section discusses the future of the Network.
Download or read book Ground Work written by Don Gayton and published by Kamloops, B.C. : Southern Interior Forest Extension and Research Partnership. This book was released on 2001 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings RMRS. written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Monitoring Animal Populations and Their Habitats by : Brenda McComb
Download or read book Monitoring Animal Populations and Their Habitats written by Brenda McComb and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2010-03-11 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the face of so many unprecedented changes in our environment, the pressure is on scientists to lead the way toward a more sustainable future. Written by a team of ecologists, Monitoring Animal Populations and Their Habitats: A Practitioner’s Guide provides a framework that natural resource managers and researchers can use to design monitoring programs that will benefit future generations by distilling the information needed to make informed decisions. In addition, this text is valuable for undergraduate- and graduate-level courses that are focused on monitoring animal populations. With the aid of more than 90 illustrations and a four-page color insert, this book offers practical guidance for the entire monitoring process, from incorporating stakeholder input and data collection, to data management, analysis, and reporting. It establishes the basis for why, what, how, where, and when monitoring should be conducted; describes how to analyze and interpret the data; explains how to budget for monitoring efforts; and discusses how to assemble reports of use in decision-making. The book takes a multi-scaled and multi-taxa approach, focusing on monitoring vertebrate populations and upland habitats, but the recommendations and suggestions presented are applicable to a variety of monitoring programs. Lastly, the book explores the future of monitoring techniques, enabling researchers to better plan for the future of wildlife populations and their habitats. Monitoring Animal Populations and Their Habitats: A Practitioner’s Guide furthers the goal of achieving a world in which biodiversity is allowed to evolve and flourish in the face of such uncertainties as climate change, invasive species proliferation, land use expansion, and population growth.
Book Synopsis Evolving Co-management Practice by : Deanna K. Y. Yim
Download or read book Evolving Co-management Practice written by Deanna K. Y. Yim and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This thesis describes a community-based research project that was conducted in partnership with Tl'azt'en Nation and the co-managed John Prince Research Forest. The purpose of the research was to identify, develop, and verify Tl'azt'en environmental measures for five traditional use activities: talo ha'hut'en - fishing salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.), huda ha'hut'en - hunting moose (Alces alces), tsa ha tsayilh sula - trapping beaver (Castor canadensis), duje hoonayin - picking huckleberries (Vaccinium membranaceum), and yoo ba ningwus hunult'o - gathering soapberries (Shepherdia canadensis) for medicinal use. The process of developing Aboriginal environmental measures was participatory and iterative. I worked in partnership with two teams of Tl'azt'en community members, including Elders and traditional land users. The central methods used in our framework included: focus groups, workshops, one-on-one interviews and Photovoice. Our participatory research approach was evaluated throughout the course of the project and comprehensively at the end of the project by Tl'azt'en team members, researchers, and research assistants. This iterative evaluation process fostered an adaptive outlook and ensured that our methodology was culturally appropriate and meaningful. Evaluation results revealed how participant satisfaction, personal development, independence, and the building of relationships contributed to sustained participation and the achievement of project objectives. Overall, 252 Tl'azt'en environmental measures were developed in this project for our five focal traditional use activities and two inductively identified environmental monitoring themes: monitoring environmental change across Tl'azt'en Nation traditional territory and monitoring community adherence to Tl'azt'enne traditional environmental land use methods and principles. A prioritized subset of these measures will be applied in the future through a Tl'azt'en community-based environmental monitoring initiative on the John Prince Research Forest. Applying these Aboriginal environmental measures through community-based environmental monitoring can strengthen the co-management partnership between Tl'azt'en Nation and the University of Northern British Columbia; community-based environmental monitoring builds the community into management and decision-making processes - ultimately contributing to co-management success."--P.ii-iii.
Book Synopsis Evolving Co-management Practice by : Deanna Yim
Download or read book Evolving Co-management Practice written by Deanna Yim and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis describes a community-based research project that was conducted in partnership with Tl'azt'en Nation and the co-managed John Prince Research Forest. The purpose of the research was to identify, develop, and verify Tl'azt'en environmental measures for five traditional use activities: talo ha'hut'en - fishing salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.), huda ha'hut'en - hunting moose (Alces alces), tsa ha tsayilh sula - trapping beaver (Castor canadensis), duje hoonayin - picking huckleberries (Vaccinium membranaceum), and yoo ba ningwus hunult'o - gathering soapberries (Shepherdia canadensis) for medicinal use. The process of developing Aboriginal environmental measures was participatory and iterative. I worked in partnership with two teams of Tl'azt'en community members, including Elders and traditional land users. The central methods used in our framework included: focus groups, workshops, one-on-one interviews and Photovoice. Our participatory research approach was evaluated throughout the course of the project and comprehensively at the end of the project by Tl'azt'en team members, researchers, and research assistants. This iterative evaluation process fostered an adaptive outlook and ensured that our methodology was culturally appropriate and meaningful. Evaluation results revealed how participant satisfaction, personal development, independence, and the building of relationships contributed to sustained participation and the achievement of project objectives. Overall, 252 Tl'azt'en environmental measures were developed in this project for our five focal traditional use activities and two inductively identified environmental monitoring themes: monitoring environmental change across Tl'azt'en Nation traditional territory and monitoring community adherence to Tl'azt'enne traditional environmental land use methods and principles. A prioritized subset of these measures will be applied in the future through a Tl'azt'en community-based environmental monitoring initiative on the John Prince Research Forest. Applying th.
Book Synopsis Identifying Effective Measures for Environmental Monitoring by Aboriginal Communities by : Ariana Janelle McKay
Download or read book Identifying Effective Measures for Environmental Monitoring by Aboriginal Communities written by Ariana Janelle McKay and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Canadian resource developments typically result in monitoring programs that fail to fully include surrounding communities. In addition, monitoring protocols for single environmental values can be insufficient for addressing cumulative impacts of resource development. Community-based environmental monitoring (CBEM) is emerging as a way to include local citizens in the decision-making process. My research produced a set of criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of CBEM with a focus on Aboriginal communities. In 2013, I interviewed staff from fifteen CBEM programs from across Canada. Considering the challenges facing individual communities, I interviewed seventeen natural resource practitioners from northern British Columbia and twenty Takla Lake First Nation members. Results demonstrate that CBEM offers a locally adapted and culturally applicable approach to facilitate community participation in resource management. This research validates the use of CBEM for improving resource management through: locally guided monitoring protocols; addressing cumulative impacts; informing decision-making; and increasing awareness, communication, and knowledge amongst community and partners."--Leaf ii.
Book Synopsis Monitoring Expertise by : Christine Twerdoclib
Download or read book Monitoring Expertise written by Christine Twerdoclib and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shale gas industry in northeast British Columbia is rapidly expanding and is promoted by the provincial government as a promising economic venture for the entire province. However, the industry is having impacts on the traditional territory of the Fort Nelson First Nation, although they have constitutionally recognized treaty rights to continue to use the land to meet their subsistence needs. I conducted this research in partnership with the Fort Nelson First Nation Department of Lands and Resources, with a focus on critically assessing the challenges they face. This research focuses on determining how the Fort Nelson First Nation can protect their treaty rights by taking control of, or inserting themselves into the data collection and monitoring activities of the shale gas industry. Utilizing a theory of knowledge politics, this research analyzes two strategies that challenge what knowledge should count, and on what terms: (1) the Fort Nelson First Nation's participation and appropriation of the professionalized science regime and (2) the development of the Fort Nelson First Nation's community-based monitoring program and its ability to impact decision-making. Drawing on primary research, participant observation, literature reviews and document analyses, I argue that these strategies are crucial and can create--but do not guarantee--links to affecting natural resource management decisions.
Download or read book Sacred Ecology written by Fikret Berkes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Ecology examines bodies of knowledge held by indigenous and other rural peoples around the world, and asks how we can learn from this knowledge and ways of knowing. Berkes explores the importance of local and indigenous knowledge as a complement to scientific ecology, and its cultural and political significance for indigenous groups themselves. With updates of relevant links for further learning and over 180 new references, the fourth edition gives increased voice to indigenous authors, and reflects the remarkable increase in published local observations of climate change.
Download or read book Arctic Ecology written by David N. Thomas and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arctic is often portrayed as being isolated, but the reality is that the connectivity with the rest of the planet is huge, be it through weather patterns, global ocean circulation, and large-scale migration patterns to name but a few. There is a huge amount of public interest in the ‘changing Arctic’, especially in terms of the rapid changes taking place in ecosystems and exploitation of resources. There can be no doubt that the Arctic is at the forefront of the international environmental science agenda, both from a scientific aspect, and also from a policy/environmental management perspective. This book aims to stimulate a wide audience to think about the Arctic by highlighting the remarkable breadth of what it means to study its ecology. Arctic Ecology seeks to systematically introduce the diverse array of ecologies within the Arctic region. As the Arctic rapidly changes, understanding the fundamental ecology underpinning the Arctic is paramount to understanding the consequences of what such change will inevitably bring about. Arctic Ecology is designed to provide graduate students of environmental science, ecology and climate change with a source where Arctic ecology is addressed specifically, with issues due to climate change clearly discussed. It will also be of use to policy-makers, researchers and international agencies who are focusing on ecological issues and effects of global climate change in the Arctic. About the Editor David N. Thomas is Professor of Arctic Ecosystem Research in the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki. Previously he spent 24 years in the School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University, Wales. He studies marine systems, with a particular emphasis on sea ice and land-coast interactions in the Arctic and Southern Oceans as well as the Baltic Sea. He also edited a related book: Sea Ice, 3rd Edition (2017), which is also published by Wiley-Blackwell.
Book Synopsis Vegetation Monitoring by : Caryl L. Elzinga
Download or read book Vegetation Monitoring written by Caryl L. Elzinga and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annotated bibliography documents literature addressing the design and implementation of vegetation monitoring. It provides resources managers, ecologists, and scientists access to the great volume of literature addressing many aspects of vegetation monitoring: planning and objective setting, choosing vegetation attributes to measure, sampling design, sampling methods, statistical and graphical analysis, and communication of results. Over half of the 1400 references have been annotated. Keywords pertaining to the type of monitoring or method are included with each bibliographic entry. Keyword index.
Book Synopsis Pluralism in Ecosystem Governance by :
Download or read book Pluralism in Ecosystem Governance written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2022-06-24 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pluralism in Ecosystem Governance, Volume 66 in the Advances in Ecological Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this release including chapters on An exploration of the effects of political pluralism on decision making for sustainability: Implications for membership on public sector boards, Transdisciplinary agroecological research on biodiversity and ecosystem services for sustainable and climate resilient farming systems in Malawi, Pluralistic approaches in research advance farming and freshwater sustainability efforts in the Great Lakes Basin, Pluralism to manage the complexity of ecosystem services co-production, Of green spaces and gray areas: An Ethnography of Ecosystem Governance in Peri-Urban Bangaluru, India, and more. Additional chapters include Charting Evidence-based Biodiversity Pathways for Sustainable Development in Canada, Community-scientist collaboration in the creation, management and research for two new National Wildlife Areas in Arctic Canada, Rigid social-ecological governance: how discourse inertia has limited pluralism in Doñana, and a variety of other topics. Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of authors Presents the latest release in the Advances in Ecological Research series Updated release includes the latest information on Pluralism in Economic Governance
Book Synopsis Connecting Mountain Islands and Desert Seas by :
Download or read book Connecting Mountain Islands and Desert Seas written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Monitoring Ecosystem Restoration of Montane Forests in Southeastern British Columbia by : Hillary N. Page
Download or read book Monitoring Ecosystem Restoration of Montane Forests in Southeastern British Columbia written by Hillary N. Page and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sustaining Rocky Mountain Landscapes by : Tony Prato
Download or read book Sustaining Rocky Mountain Landscapes written by Tony Prato and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prato and Fagre offer the first systematic, multi-disciplinary assessment of the challenges involved in managing the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem (CCE), an area of the Rocky Mountains that includes northwestern Montana, southwestern Alberta, and southeastern British Columbia. The spectacular landscapes, extensive recreational options, and broad employment opportunities of the CCE have made it one of the fastest growing regions in the United States and Canada, and have lead to a shift in its economic base from extractive resources to service-oriented recreation and tourism industries. In the process, however, the amenities and attributes that draw people to this 'New West' are under threat. Pastoral scenes are disappearing as agricultural lands and other open spaces are converted to residential uses, biodiversity is endangered by the fragmentation of fish and wildlife habitats, and many areas are experiencing a decline in air and water quality. Sustaining Rocky Mountain Landscapes provides a scientific basis for communities to develop policies for managing the growth and economic transformation of the CCE without sacrificing the quality of life and environment for which the land is renowned. The book begins with a natural and economic history of the CCE. It follows with an assessment of current physical and biological conditions in the CCE. The contributors then explore how social, economic, demographic, and environmental forces are transforming ecosystem structure and function. They consider ecosystem change in response to changing patterns of land use, pollution, and drought; the increasing risk of wildfire to wildlife and to human life and property; and the implications of global climate change on the CCE. A final, policy-focused section of the book looks at transboundary issues in ecosystem management and evaluates the potential of community-based and adaptive approaches in ecosystem management.
