TY - JOUR
T1 - Local-level criteria and indicators
T2 - An aboriginal perspective on sustainable forest management
AU - Sherry, Erin
AU - Halseth, Regine
AU - Fondahl, Gail
AU - Karjala, Melanie
AU - Leon, Beverly
N1 - Funding Information:
Research for this paper was funded by Forestry Innovation Investment Forestry Research Program (British Columbia), and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada through their Community-University Research Alliance program. The authors thank Beverly Bird, Renel Mitchell, Dwayne Martin, Ron Winser and Terry Furlong for invaluable help with the research, a forest policy advisor provided by Tl’azt’en Nation for reviewing and commenting on a draft, and Dr Peggy Smith and an anonymous reviewer for their insightful and constructive comments.
PY - 2005/12
Y1 - 2005/12
N2 - As tools for improving the sustainability of forest management, criteria and indicator (C&I) frameworks have grown in popularity over the last decade. Such frameworks have been largely derived from top-down approaches to determining critical measures of forest management success. While useful, they fail to capture many C&I of critical importance to local populations, who experience forest management strategies first hand and who have their own definitions of sustainability. Using archival materials, our research begins to identify one First Nation's forest values and compares these local-level C&I with three well-known C&I frameworks for sustainable forestry. We demonstrate that local-level definitions can provide additional C&I, as well as additional levels of detail to C&I that they share with the national and international frameworks. Both are crucial to developing strategies for sustainable management that meet local as well as broader needs and desires.
AB - As tools for improving the sustainability of forest management, criteria and indicator (C&I) frameworks have grown in popularity over the last decade. Such frameworks have been largely derived from top-down approaches to determining critical measures of forest management success. While useful, they fail to capture many C&I of critical importance to local populations, who experience forest management strategies first hand and who have their own definitions of sustainability. Using archival materials, our research begins to identify one First Nation's forest values and compares these local-level C&I with three well-known C&I frameworks for sustainable forestry. We demonstrate that local-level definitions can provide additional C&I, as well as additional levels of detail to C&I that they share with the national and international frameworks. Both are crucial to developing strategies for sustainable management that meet local as well as broader needs and desires.
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U2 - 10.1093/forestry/cpi048
DO - 10.1093/forestry/cpi048
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:28744443919
VL - 78
SP - 513
EP - 539
JO - Forestry
JF - Forestry
SN - 0015-752X
IS - 5
ER -