The Flux of Trust: Caribou Co-Management in Northern Canada
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There is a presumption that the primary goal of creating alternative resource management systems is to increase the efficiency of the management decisions made. However, changing the rules of resource management leads to institutional uncertainty, and such instability is an integral part of developing alternative management systems. In the case of barren ground caribou management, these rule changes include adding the voices of resource users to decision-making, in particular, the marginalized voices of aboriginal caribou-hunting communities. Trust-building is an important process in the development of new management institutions in such crosscultural situations. Trust develops in conditions where the multiple perspectives of diverse stakeholders are addressed, so that the information for management decisions is clear, accountable and legitimate to all parties. The trust put in the knowledge of linked and dynamic social and ecological conditions changes through time. In this paper the fluctuating trust put in the knowledge of caribou ecology and behaviour is examined with the aid of panarchy thinking and common property theory. This analysis is grounded in the relationship between barren ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus) and people in the Dene community of Łutsël Ké on the eastern arm of Great Slave Lake, in Canadas Northwest Territories. On suppose que l'objectif premier qui sous-tend la création de systèmes alternatifs de gestion des ressources est l'amélioration de l'efficacité des décisions. Pourtant, les modifications des règles de gestion fragilisent les institutions, et cette instabilité fait partie intégrante de la création de systèmes alternatifs de gestion. Dans le cas de la gestion du caribou des toundras, on compte parmi ces changements l'ajout du point de vue des utilisateurs de la ressource dans les prises de décisions, en particulier celui des collectivités autochtones qui en font la chasse. Établir la confiance est un processus important dans la création de nouvelles institutions de gestion dans un contexte interculturel. La confiance s'établit lorsque les perspectives des divers intervenants sont prises en compte, afin que l'information menant à des décisions soit claire, responsable et légitime pour tous. La confiance dans la connaissance des conditions sociales et écologiques dynamiques et interreliées se modifie dans le temps. Cet article se sert de la pensée panarchique et des théories sur la propriété commune pour examiner les fluctuations de la confiance dans les connaissances sur l'écologie et le 44 Environments 31 (1) comportement du caribou, en particulier dans le cadre des relations entre les caribous des toundras (Rangifer tarandus) et les peuples de la communauté déné de Łutsël Ké, dans le bras est du Grand lac des Esclaves, dans les Territoires du Nord-Ouest.
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تاریخ انتشار 2003