TY - JOUR
T1 - Including aboriginal issues in forest planning
T2 - A case study in central interior British Columbia, Canada
AU - Karjala, Melanie K.
AU - Dewhurst, Stephen M.
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding for this research was provided by the Sustainable Forest Management Network. Thanks to Tl’azt’en Nation and Sue Grainger (John Prince Research Forest) for their support and co-operation; Dr. Annie Booth for her assistance in the research; and Dr. Gail Fondahl and Dr. Dan Lousier for comments on drafts of this manuscript.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - Generic criteria and indicator (C&I) frameworks have been the focus of recent work on sustainable forest management. These templates, however, may not be an appropriate approach for directing landscape-level forest management strategies. Instead, many argue that sustainable management should be determined using "bottom-up" approaches rather than standardized frameworks. This requires engaging local expertise in defining sustainability. Having a culturally distinct form of local knowledge, Aboriginal communities have an important role to play in decision-making processes. However, conventional participatory approaches, such as generic C&I frameworks and multi-stakeholder planning processes, are often inappropriate for engaging Aboriginal involvement. We suggest that landscape-level forest planning should highlight rather than assimilate cultural perspectives on sustainable forest management. Using the co-managed John Prince Research Forest in central interior British Columbia as a case study, this paper presents the results of using C&I and a scenario planning approach to describe an Aboriginal perspective of good forest stewardship. These results demonstrate that, in contrast with existing C&I frameworks, locally-based sustainability criteria provide better guidance for developing and adapting landscape-level forest plans.
AB - Generic criteria and indicator (C&I) frameworks have been the focus of recent work on sustainable forest management. These templates, however, may not be an appropriate approach for directing landscape-level forest management strategies. Instead, many argue that sustainable management should be determined using "bottom-up" approaches rather than standardized frameworks. This requires engaging local expertise in defining sustainability. Having a culturally distinct form of local knowledge, Aboriginal communities have an important role to play in decision-making processes. However, conventional participatory approaches, such as generic C&I frameworks and multi-stakeholder planning processes, are often inappropriate for engaging Aboriginal involvement. We suggest that landscape-level forest planning should highlight rather than assimilate cultural perspectives on sustainable forest management. Using the co-managed John Prince Research Forest in central interior British Columbia as a case study, this paper presents the results of using C&I and a scenario planning approach to describe an Aboriginal perspective of good forest stewardship. These results demonstrate that, in contrast with existing C&I frameworks, locally-based sustainability criteria provide better guidance for developing and adapting landscape-level forest plans.
KW - Criteria and indicators
KW - Forest planning
KW - Indigenous people
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U2 - 10.1016/S0169-2046(02)00196-2
DO - 10.1016/S0169-2046(02)00196-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0038220928
SN - 0169-2046
VL - 64
SP - 1
EP - 17
JO - Landscape and Urban Planning
JF - Landscape and Urban Planning
IS - 1-2
ER -