• Login
    View Item 
    •   Home
    • University of Alaska Fairbanks
    • UAF Graduate School
    • Natural Resources
    • View Item
    •   Home
    • University of Alaska Fairbanks
    • UAF Graduate School
    • Natural Resources
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Browse

    All of Scholarworks@UACommunitiesPublication DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsTypeThis CollectionPublication DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsType

    My Account

    Login

    First Time Submitters, Register Here

    Register

    Statistics

    Display statistics

    Learning from the local scale: identifying and addressing local blind spots in Arctic environmental governance

    • CSV
    • RefMan
    • EndNote
    • BibTex
    • RefWorks
    Thumbnail
    Name:
    Curry_T_2019.pdf
    Size:
    11.22Mb
    Format:
    PDF
    Description:
    Thesis
    Download
    Thumbnail
    Name:
    IRB Approval_767319-1.pdf
    Size:
    109.1Kb
    Format:
    PDF
    Description:
    IRB Approval
    Download
    Thumbnail
    Name:
    IRB Exemption_1343902-1.pdf
    Size:
    125.5Kb
    Format:
    PDF
    Description:
    IRB Exemption
    Download
    Thumbnail
    Name:
    Knowledge Communication Survey ...
    Size:
    2.621Mb
    Format:
    PDF
    Description:
    Knowledge Communication Survey
    Download
    Thumbnail
    Name:
    Report A - Baseline.pdf
    Size:
    328.2Kb
    Format:
    PDF
    Description:
    Report A Baseline
    Download
    Thumbnail
    Name:
    Report B - Baseline_quotes.pdf
    Size:
    338.0Kb
    Format:
    PDF
    Description:
    Report B
    Download
    Thumbnail
    Name:
    Report C - Baseline_quotes_ima ...
    Size:
    809.1Kb
    Format:
    PDF
    Description:
    Report C
    Download
    Thumbnail
    Name:
    Resolution 2015-11 UAF Adaptation ...
    Size:
    2.466Mb
    Format:
    PDF
    Description:
    Resolution
    Download
    View more filesView fewer files
    Author
    Curry, Tracie
    Chair
    Meek, Chanda
    Trainor, Sarah
    Committee
    Berman, Matthew
    Lopez, Ellen
    Streever, Bill
    Keyword
    environmental policy
    Arctic regions
    environmental law
    environmental management
    traditional ecological knowledge
    indigenous peoples
    ecology
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/11122/10614
    Abstract
    Environmental governance in the context of climate change adaptation brings together diverse actors and stakeholders to develop and enact policies across a broad range of scales. However, local needs and priorities are often mismatched with those pursued by entities at different levels of decision-making. This mismatch is perpetuated, in part, by the dominating influence of the Western worldview in knowledge processes involving the creation, sharing, and use of environmental knowledge. Persistent biases that favor Western science and technical information while marginalizing other important sources like local and Indigenous knowledge create blind spots that may adversely affect adaptation outcomes. In this research, a case study of the Native Village of Wainwright, Alaska is used to explore the topic of information blind spots in environmental governance resulting from 1) low resolution tools employed within broad scale adaptation initiatives; 2) preferences for easily quantifiable information; and 3) the challenge of communicating context-rich details to outside decision makers, given disciplinary biases and organizational conventions. This dissertation comprises manuscripts based on three studies undertaken to address the above blind spots in specific areas of adaptation planning. The first manuscript furthers conventional methods of adaptation classification through a place-based approach that uses directed content analysis to identify aspects of local adaptation not readily captured by low resolution frameworks. The second manuscript employs contextual analysis and extends Ostrom's Institutional Analysis and Development framework to characterize the role of local informal institutions in adaptation and provide insights into how difficult-to-quantify social and cultural norms might be leveraged in planned adaptation initiatives. The third manuscript reports on a formative endeavor that looked practically at conventions for communicating environmental change to public sector decision-makers, and tested a survey that explored the potential for context-rich visuals and other reporting strategies to effectively convey information about local observations and experiences of change.
    Description
    Dissertation (Ph.D.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2019
    Date
    2019-08
    Type
    Dissertation
    Collections
    Natural Resources

    entitlement

     
    ABOUT US|HELP|BROWSE|ADVANCED SEARCH

    The University of Alaska Fairbanks is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and educational institution and is a part of the University of Alaska system.

    ©UAF 2013 - 2023 | Questions? ua-scholarworks@alaska.edu | Last modified: September 25, 2019

    Open Repository is a service operated by 
    Atmire NV
     

    Export search results

    The export option will allow you to export the current search results of the entered query to a file. Different formats are available for download. To export the items, click on the button corresponding with the preferred download format.

    By default, clicking on the export buttons will result in a download of the allowed maximum amount of items.

    To select a subset of the search results, click "Selective Export" button and make a selection of the items you want to export. The amount of items that can be exported at once is similarly restricted as the full export.

    After making a selection, click one of the export format buttons. The amount of items that will be exported is indicated in the bubble next to export format.