Indigenous-industry partnerships and capacity building for Aboriginal economic development: The case of forest industry joint ventures in north central British Columbia.

This article discusses collaborative research with the Office of the Wet'suwet'en Nation on their traditional territories in north-central British Columbia, Canada, a forest-dependent region where contemporary and traditional forest resources management regimes overlap. In-depth personal interviews with the hereditary chiefs and concept mapping were used to identify social-ecological linkages in Wet'suwet'en culture to inform the development of culturally sensitive social criteria and indicators of sustainable forest management (SFM) in this region. The preliminary results demonstrate how the CatPac II software tool can be applied to identify key component concepts and linkages in local definitions of SFM, and translate large volumes of (oral) qualitative data into manageable information resources for forest managers and decision-makers. Key words: social criteria and indicators, sustainable forest management, qualitative research, Wet'suwet'en

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Three Decades in Shiwa: Economic Development and Social Change in a Japanese Farming Community. By Mitsuru Shimpo. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1976. xxvi, 141 pp. Maps, Figures, Tables, Appendixes, Notes, Selected Bibliography, Index. $15.00

The Journal of Asian Studies ◽

10.1017/s0021911800075380 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 37 (01) ◽

pp. 140-141

Author(s):

Erwin H. Johnson

Keyword(s):

British Columbia ◽

Economic Development ◽

Social Change ◽

University Of British Columbia ◽

Farming Community

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A Lower Jurassic heteroporid bryozoan and associated biota, Turnagain Lake, British Columbia

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences ◽

10.1139/e81-040 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 18 (3) ◽

pp. 457-468 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

C. M. Henderson ◽

D. G. Perry

Keyword(s):

British Columbia ◽

North America ◽

Green Alga ◽

Marine Environment ◽

High Energy ◽

Lower Jurassic ◽

Early Jurassic ◽

Associated Fauna ◽

North Central ◽

Commensal Relationship

Late Early Jurassic heteroporid bryozoa occur in arenaceous carbonates near Turnagain Lake, north-central British Columbia. The occurrence of Heteropora tipperi n. sp. marks the first documentation of Early Jurassic cyclostome bryozoa in North America. The associated fauna, comprising the ammonite Harpoceras, the foraminifer Reinholdella, and the pelecypod Weyla, establish the age as Early Toarcian. Other associated biota include an endolithic green alga(e), which is demonstrated to have a commensal relationship with H. tipperi n. sp. Sedimentologic and biotic data from the host strata point to a shallow, temperate, high-energy, normal marine environment.

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