Monitoring Nûtimesânân Following the Diversion of Our River: A Community-led Registry in Eeyou Istchee, Northern Québec

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (01) ◽  
pp. 1650001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Edward Strangway ◽  
Marc Dunn ◽  
Ryan Erless
Keyword(s):  
Local Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
River Diversion ◽  
Hydroelectric Project ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Management Decision Making ◽  
Scientific Results ◽  
Aboriginal Subsistence

The Waskaganish Voluntary Anadromous Cisco Catch Registry is a community-led ex post monitoring programme carried out within the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Follow-up Phase of the Rupert River Diversion Hydroelectric Project. The Registry monitors an aboriginal subsistence fishery in the Cree community of Waskaganish. Due to the complexity of the socio-ecological system, predicting the project’s impacts on the fishery at the ex ante stage proved difficult. The programme has allowed the community to monitor changes in the cisco fishery, while also providing a forum for communication and collaboration with the proponent, Hydro-Québec. The programme recognises and incorporates both local ecological knowledge and scientific results from site-specific biological monitoring studies. Overall, the Registry has enhanced stakeholder understanding of project impacts, improved mitigation management decision-making and led to the development of an effective consultation framework. Most importantly, the Registry has helped the fishery to continue into the future despite project impacts.

scholarly journals The Role of Traditional Knowledge in Coastal Adaptation Priorities: The Pamunkey Indian Reservation

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 3548
Author(s):  
Nicole S. Hutton ◽  
Thomas R. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Management Decision ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Indian Reservation ◽  
Screening Process ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Indigenous Groups ◽  
Management Decision Making ◽  
Federal Assistance ◽  
Tribal Council

Coastal reservations are increasingly vulnerable to hazards exacerbated by climate change. Resources for restoration projects are limited. Storm surge, storms, tidal flooding, and erosion endanger artifacts and limit livelihoods of tribes in coastal Virginia. GIS offers a platform to increase communication between scientists, planners, and indigenous groups. The Pamunkey Indian Tribe engaged in a participatory mapping exercise to assess the role of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) in coastal management decision-making and its capacity to address flooding. Priorities and strategies were spatially referenced using maps of potential sea level rise for 2040, 2060, and 2080, input into a resilience matrix to identify benchmarks for each phase of disaster resilience building, and contextualized with oral histories. Results highlight increased immediacy to protect housing and heritage sites along the shoreline as well as maintain access to the Reservation. Preferences toward structural solutions guided by and facilitating TEK options were expressed. Additional community capacities, tribal council support, federal assistance, impact assessments, and coordination would facilitate risk reduction project implementation. The screening process integrates TEK with planning and is transferable to neighboring tribes.

scholarly journals Arctic Borderlands Ecological Knowledge Cooperative: can local knowledge inform caribou management?

Rangifer ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don E. Russell ◽  
Michael Y. Svoboda ◽  
Jadah Arokium ◽  
Dorothy Cooley
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Information Source ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Harvest Management ◽  
Herd Health ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Management Decision Making

While quantitative analyses have traditionally been used to measure overall caribou herd health, qualitative observational data can also provide timely information that reflects what people on the land are observing. The Arctic Borderlands Ecological Knowledge Co-op (ABEKC) monitors ecological change in the range of the Porcupine Caribou Herd (PCH). The community-based monitoring component of the Co-op’s mandate involves the gathering of local knowledge through interviews with local experts in a number of communities.We analyzed the responses to interviews collected during 2000–2007 related to caribou availability, harvest success, meeting needs and caribou health during fall and spring. Interviews revealed 1) caribou greater availability during the survey period, 2) an increasing trend in the proportion of harvesters that met their needs 3) no trend in animals harvested or proportion of successful hunters and 4) improving overall caribou health throughout the period.There was no population estimate for the herd between 2001 and 2010. In 2001, 123,000 caribou were estimated in the herd. Based on an estimated 178,000 in 1989, a declining trend of ~ 3% annually occurred at least until 2001. In the interim agencies and boards feared the herd continued to decline and worked towards and finalized a Harvest Management Plan for the herd. In contrast, from the Co-op interviews all indications suggested improving herd conditions throughout most of the decade. A successful survey in 2010 determined the herd had grown to 169,000 animals. We conclude that the community-based interviews provided a valid, unique information source to better understand caribou ecology and express community perceptions of overall herd status and could provide a valuable contribution to management decision making.  We recommend that ABEKC results become standard input into Porcupine Caribou harvest management decisions and serve as a model of integrating community based monitoring data into resource management decision making throughout the north.

Fishburne sequences for decision making in Economics

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anatoliy Sigal ◽  
Elena Remesnik
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Modeling ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Risk Theory ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Entropy Theory ◽  
Management Decision Making ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Scientific Results ◽  
Statistical Solutions

The monograph is devoted to the application of the Fishburne formula and their generalizations, Fishburne sequences, in Economics, primarily for correct modeling of management decision-making processes in the field of various information situations. In addition, the monograph summarizes the necessary information about classical sequences of natural numbers, information from entropy theory, economic risk theory, game theory, and statistical solutions. The monograph completes the authors ' research on the application of Fishburne sequences in Economics and management, and contains a number of provisions and scientific results that have not been published before. It will be useful for practitioners, managers, specialists in economic and mathematical modeling, scientists, teachers, graduate students, and students.

Centralization and Effectiveness of Reward Management in Multinational Enterprises

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Tekieli ◽  
Marion Festing ◽  
Xavier Baeten
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Multinational Enterprises ◽  
Role Identity ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Role Identities ◽  
Management Decision Making ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Subsidiary Managers ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. Based on responses from 158 reward managers located at the headquarters or subsidiaries of multinational enterprises, the present study examines the relationship between the centralization of reward management decision making and its perceived effectiveness in multinational enterprises. Our results show that headquarters managers perceive a centralized approach as being more effective, while for subsidiary managers this relationship is moderated by the manager’s role identity. Referring to social identity theory, the present study enriches the standardization versus localization debate through a new perspective focusing on psychological processes, thereby indicating the importance of in-group favoritism in headquarters and the influence of subsidiary managers’ role identities on reward management decision making.

Emergency management decision-making during severe weather

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leigh A. Baumgart ◽  
Ellen J. Bass ◽  
Brenda Philips ◽  
Kevin Kloesel
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Severe Weather ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Management Decision Making

Providing additional education services for children: Challenges and solutions

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 675-687
Author(s):  
Yu.I. Brodovskaya ◽  
T.A. Smirnova
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Preferences ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Education Services ◽  
Supplementary Education ◽  
Management Decision Making ◽  
Additional Education ◽  
Sociological Studies ◽  
Municipal Level

Subject. This article considers the issues of provision of supplementary education services for children and methodological tools for the formation of educational environment. Objectives. The article aims to assess the level of development of the system of supplementary education of children in Krasnoyarsk and offer a methodological approach to improving the management decision-making procedure in the formation of a portfolio of supplementary education services at the municipal level. Methods. For the study, we used the methods of theoretical, empirical, and logistic analyses, and sociological studies. Results. The article offers concrete solutions to the lack of a methodological approach to providing supplementary education services, considering one of the micro-districts of Krasnoyarsk as a case in point. It also offers tools that can be used by public authorities to organize educational space at the municipal level. Conclusions. A unified methodological approach should be used to provide a system of supplementary education, taking into account financial means, as well as differentiation in the distribution of educational facilities throughout the area. The relevance of the set of supplementary education services and consumer preferences should be taken into account, as well.

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