scholarly journals Embedded in Nature: Challenges to Sustainability in Communities of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 1459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Bergstrom ◽  
Lisa Harrington
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Sustainable Community Development ◽  
Effective Decision ◽  
Greater Yellowstone ◽  
Effective Decision Making

Solutions to sustainability transitions tend to be applicable for specific regions but not the whole of society. Limitations on what may be sustained also exist, and preferences will vary among people in different places. Because of these differences, there is a need for better understanding of the perceptions and experiences of local community members and the challenges they face in the transition toward sustainability to promote realistic and effective decision-making. As a region with significant natural resource protections, the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem has been known to researchers for decades as an ideal location to study human-environment interactions. The objective of this study was to determine the challenges to sustainable community development and natural resource management identified by residents of communities surrounding Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. Thirty-two key informant interviews were conducted with decision-makers, with a focus on the communities of Red Lodge and West Yellowstone, Montana, and Jackson, Wyoming. Findings suggest that primary challenges include the seasonality of the tourist industry, disparities between agricultural and tourism-dependent priorities, and the implementation of stated sustainability goals. Challenges differ based on communities’ socio-economic conditions, dependence on tourism and recreation-based industries, and the influence of local and extra-local institutions.

scholarly journals Defining Sustainability in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan D. Bergstrom
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem ◽  
Community Stakeholders ◽  
Gateway Communities ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Greater Yellowstone ◽  
Effective Decision Making ◽  
Collective Resource ◽  
Time In Residence

Because of the normative and subjective nature of the terms sustainability and sustainable development, solutions tend to be applicable for specific regions but not the whole of society. Thus, it is imperative understand better how community stakeholders and decision makers define the concept of sustainability. Not only will greater understanding of such definitions add to our understanding of nature-society relations, but also in certain contexts, this understanding may help to promote realistic and effective decision-making at local levels. The objective of this study was to determine how amenity-driven gateway communities surrounding Yellowstone and Grand Teton National parks define, conceptualize, and perceive sustainability, and if those perceptions varied between time in residence, community of origin, or role within the community. Thirty-five key informant interviews were conducted with decision makers within the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem to meet the study objectives. Throughout study communities, definitions of sustainability focused on the environment, the economy, and multi-generational thinking, and it is believed that these similarities can be the starting point for communication and collaboration among gateway communities, the long-term sustainability of their individual communities, and the collective resource upon which they all depend, the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

scholarly journals Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): motivations and challenges of a Multinational Enterprise (MNE) subsidiary’s engagement with host communities in Ghana

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyon Salia Awuah ◽  
Kwame Oduro Amoako ◽  
Stephen Yeboah ◽  
Emmanuel Opoku Marfo ◽  
Peter Ansu-Mensah
Keyword(s):  
Stakeholder Engagement ◽  
Multinational Enterprise ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Mining Sector ◽  
High Expectations ◽  
Effective Decision ◽  
Effective Decision Making ◽  
Internal Stakeholders ◽  
Corporate Social

AbstractThis paper aims to explore the motivations and challenges of engaging host communities in CSR practices within the context of Newmont Ahafo Mines (NAM), a subsidiary of a Multinational Mining Enterprise (MNE) operating in Ghana’s mining sector. This paper draws insights from stakeholder theory and interviews conducted with internal stakeholders (management and employees) and stakeholders in host communities (traditional rulers and community members). The findings indicate that effective decision-making, gaining legitimacy, cost savings, management of risks, and accountability are some of the perceived motivations of NAM’s stakeholder engagement in CSR. Nonetheless, the most critical challenges to NAM in improving stakeholder engagement in CSR practices are the lack of community members’ support in CSR projects, communities’ high expectations of NAM on development projects and over-dependency on NAM on the part of host communities. Therefore, it is reasonable for MNEs in emerging economies to attune engagement practices to the host community’s context. This will enable CSR practices and policies to fully exploit the latent benefits of CSR in the mining sector.

scholarly journals A Tale of Two Kewangs: A comparative study of traditional institutions and their effect on conservation in Maluku

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Karno Batiran ◽  
Ishak Salim
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Traditional Institution ◽  
Traditional Institutions ◽  
Historically Situated

This study explains how kewang, a traditional institution that deals with social affairs and natural resource management, maintains traditional ecological knowledge and practices in Maluku. This study focuses on two comparative villages (negeri): Haruku and South Buano. The study adopts a historically situated new institutionalism approach to analyzing the dynamic developments of kewang and how it affects community members in the context of conservation and natural resource management of the petuanan customary areas of the two negeri. By examining institutional change including history, ideology, organization and authority of kewang with other institutional forms such as soa, government, church, and NGOs the study shows the path-dependence of the two respective kewangs. In Haruku, the kewang has long stayed intact because the institution is still practiced as a cultural principle, maintaining itself through the tradition-based leadership succession mechanisms and by continuing to carry out its functions, as well as pursuing innovations within kewang education for future generations. In South Buano however, due to the long absence of a kewang, efforts at revival show the strong influence of rational choice thinking principles, dependent on the formal authority of the negeri government. The study concludes that historical junctures shape the role and authority of kewangs in performing natural resource functions, and which can have longnstanding generational impacts on conservation possibilities. Meanwhile, kewang also rely on both its continued endogenous acceptance among local community members, and depend on its relations with other key institutions in society.  

scholarly journals Status, Distribution, and Management of Mountain Goats in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

1988 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 193-198
Author(s):  
John Laundre
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
National Parks ◽  
National Forests ◽  
Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem ◽  
Western North America ◽  
Oreamnos Americanus ◽  
Mountain Ranges ◽  
Mountain Goats ◽  
Greater Yellowstone

Mountain goats ( Oreamnos americanus) are indigenous to western North America but are not native to the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Recent introductions of mountain goats at several sites in National Forests surrounding Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks have brought them to the area. The introductions have been successful and goat populations are increasing. Goats are now reported to be in most mountain ranges surrounding the Parks and occasional sightings are reported within the Parks.

scholarly journals Ecology of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Field Research and Conservation

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 231-231
Author(s):  
Scott Carleton
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem ◽  
Greater Yellowstone

During June, 2010 six wildlife students from Laramie, WY traveled to Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks for a 10 day course on the Ecology of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. The course focused on the vegetation, animals, geology, and management challenges for each park. For each of the components, a student gave a brief introduction to the class on the topic we would be exploring that day.

scholarly journals Estimating the Recreation Use Values of National Parks

1996 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 303-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Bennett
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Travel Cost Method ◽  
Use Values ◽  
Effective Decision ◽  
Effective Decision Making ◽  
Recreation Use ◽  
Decision Making Tool

A comprehensive application of the travel cost method (TCM) to the estimation of the recreation use values of Dorrigo and Gibraltar Range National Parks is outlined. As well as providing value estimates that are useful for the development of park acquisition and management policy, the application also provides some important lessons for the future use of the TCM. So long as some key assumptions relating to the value of travel time and site congestion are shown to hold, then a stream-lined version of the TCM can be used. The questionnaire required to implement the abridged version is brief, thus encouraging a better response rate. Survey and analysis costs are therefore likely to be lower, making the TCM a more cost-effective decision making tool.

scholarly journals Status, Distribution, and Management of Mountain Goats in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

1990 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 139-139
Author(s):  
John Laundre
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Current Distribution ◽  
Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem ◽  
Field Surveys ◽  
Oreamnos Americanus ◽  
Resource Managers ◽  
Mountain Goats ◽  
Greater Yellowstone ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
Available Information

Mountain goats (Oreamnos americanus) are not thought to be historic natives to the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. They occurred in the area before 10,000 B.P. but all evidence indicates they were extirpated from the area by the time Europeans arrived. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game and the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks introduced goats into the area in the mid 1900's. Goats have expanded in numbers and range and are occasionally seen within Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. There is concern that their presence in the Parks might negatively impact native plants and animals. This study assessed the current distribution of mountain goats and their potential impact on fauna and flora of the Parks. The current distribution of mountain goats in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem was determined by consulting area resource managers, perusing sighting records, and conducting field surveys. The potential impact of goats on the fauna and flora of Yellowstone and Grand Teton Parks was assessed by compiling all available information on mountain goat behavior and ecology.

scholarly journals The Possibilities of Open-Cast Mining in Landscape Parks in Poland—A Case Study

Resources ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 122
Author(s):  
Alicja Kot-Niewiadomska ◽  
Agnieszka Pawłowska
Keyword(s):  
Nature Conservation ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Buffer Zones ◽  
Open Cast Mining ◽  
The Social ◽  
Effective Decision ◽  
Effective Decision Making ◽  
Social Licence To Operate

Landscape parks are one of the most important tools for nature conservation in Europe. Cultural landscape protection, coupled in particular with rural tradition of land use plays a very important role. A common feature of these popular protected areas is the fact that they are established legally, in accordance with the principle of sustainable development. Activities carried out in the landscape parks are not entirely subservient to nature conservation. This makes them different from national parks and natural reserves. In Poland, landscape parks together with their buffer zones cover more than 13% of the country’s territory, which frequently causes conflicts among mining entrepreneurs and limits their activities. Mining in landscape parks in Poland is not forbidden by domestic law; however, detailed guidelines in this respect are determined by the assembly of a given province. Additionally, the process of applying for an extraction licence could be burdened with the threat of social protests, which may result in extending it by many years, and because of which a project may fail to be completed. Optimal solutions to these obstacles are already proposed by “Czatkowice” Limestone Mine (Małopolska Province). This case study presents an efficient practice of a smooth and effective decision-making process of obtaining a new mining licence in a landscape park. It also outlines certain aspects of the social licence to operate (SLO) as well as some appropriate methods of acting in complicated environments and spatial conditions.

scholarly journals Ecology of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

2011 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 195-195
Author(s):  
Scott Carleton
Keyword(s):  
Species Composition ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Individual Tree ◽  
Successional Stages ◽  
Greater Yellowstone

During June, 2010 six wildlife students from Laramie, WY traveled to Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks for a 10 day course on the Ecology of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. The course focused on the vegetation, animals, geology, and management challenges concerning the parks. For each of the components, a student gave a brief introduction to the class on the topic we would be exploring that day. Students learned to identify trees using dichotomous keys and then spent the day in the field performing vegetation transects in recently burned to mature forests within the parks. Students then used their data sets to make inferences into species composition and the process of succession across the landscape. Students learned about individual tree life histories. including the role of serotiny in early forest successional stages following a fire.

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