Co Management In A Landscape Of Resistance

Download or read book Co-management in a Landscape of Resistance written by Joseph John Spaeder and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Over the last decade, cooperative management has emerged as the dominant strategy in Northern regions for resolving resource conflicts and building partnerships in conservation and management between local users and government agencies. This dissertation examines the evolution and performance of several co-management systems governing wildlife in Western and Northwestern Alaska. The aim of this dissertation is to provide a better understanding of the evolution and performance of these joint management institutions by situating them within an analysis of social origins of resource conflict, local repertoires of resistance and contested claims to wild lands and wildlife. This research draws on political ecology as a conceptual framework which focuses attention on the linkages between local resource use patterns and micro-politics, on the one hand, and the larger economic and political institutions and forces that significantly shape those patterns, on the other. The first study, set in the Kotzebue Sound region of Northwest Alaska, examines: 1) the nature and causes of social conflict between Inupiat Eskimo hunters and government managers in the region, and 2) the potential for a nascent co-management regime both to mitigate these conflicts and to provide for more effective and equitable management of the Western Arctic Caribou Herd. In the second case study, I analyze the emergence of new joint management institutions for managing caribou and brown bear developed by agency managers and Yupík Eskimo communities in Western Alaska. After examining the historical the historical origins of resource conflicts which preceded co-management, I discuss how the emergence of new institutional arrangements alters existing power relationships and property regimes in both formal and informal arenas. The final case examines the performance of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta Goose Management Plan, established between government agencies and thirty-five Yupík Eskimo communities in Western Alaska. Analysis focuses on explicating the pattern of resistance and cooperation that emerges in response to the implementation of agency conservation programs in the region, with special attention to the responses of communities adjacent to prime waterfowl migration and nesting habitat"--Leaves ii-iii.