The development of multi-level governance for the management of polar bears in Nunavut Territory, Canada
This thesis examines the complex social ecological system involving polar bear management in Nunavut and its conversion from a top-down system to a multi-level governance system. The interactions of the governance scale with the biophysical, economic and social/cultural scales are explored, with emp...
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ftcanadathes:oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.18694 2023-05-15T16:55:00+02:00 The development of multi-level governance for the management of polar bears in Nunavut Territory, Canada Dowsley, Martha George Wenzel (Supervisor) Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Geography) 2008 application/pdf http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=18694 en eng McGill University Electronically-submitted theses. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=18694 All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. Social Sciences - Geography Electronic Thesis or Dissertation 2008 ftcanadathes 2014-02-16T01:03:11Z This thesis examines the complex social ecological system involving polar bear management in Nunavut and its conversion from a top-down system to a multi-level governance system. The interactions of the governance scale with the biophysical, economic and social/cultural scales are explored, with emphasis placed on the local levels of these scales. Co-management, as an instituted method of governance, is also examined to evaluate the incorporation of the Euro-Canadian and Inuit ideologies regarding polar bears. The hypothesis that Inuit would gain power through the authority granted to them in co-management was supported. However, the hypothesis that individual polar bear harvesters and other Inuit involved in the formal governance system would adopt the Euro-Canadian ideology due to the influences of the market economy and historic power of the top-down governance system was not well supported. Instead, Inuit used the Euro-Canadian tools of science and the market economy, but resisted top-down management views and the commoditization of polar bears in the market economy. Traditional understandings of social relationships among humans and between humans and bears based on the social economy of subsistence were used to oppose Euro-Canadian views in co-management and in structuring the use of polar bears for economic reasons. Cette thèse compare le système socio-écologique, impliquant la gestion des ours polaire du Nunavut, et la conversion d'un système de gestion directionel (« top-down ») vers un système de gouvernance multi-niveaux . Les interactions des échelles de gouvernance avec les éléments biophysiques, économiques et socio-culturelles sont abordées, en mettant l'accent sur les échelles locales. La co-gestion, comme méthode de gouvernance, est également examinée afin d'évaluer l'incorporation des idéologies Euro-Canadiennes et Inuits en ce qui concerne les ours polaires. Notre hypothèse de recherche stipule stipulant que les Inuits gagnent du pouvoir par l'acquisition d'une autorité accordée par la co-gestion. Toutefois, nos recherches n'ont pas corroboré l'hypothèse voulant que les individus chassant l'ours polaire et les autres Inuits impliqués dans le système formel de gouvernement adopteraient les idéologies Euro-Canadienne, en raison de l'influence du pouvoir du marché économique et historique présent dans le système de gestion directionnel. Au contraire, les Inuits utilisent les outils scientifiques Euro-Canadiens et l'économie de marché, mais résistent aux idées de gestion directive et la commercialisation des ours polaires dans l'économie de marché. La compréhension traditionelle des relations entre les Hommes, entre les Hommes et les ours polaires sur l'économie sociale de substistance a été utilisée afin d'opposer les idées Euro-Canadiennes de la co-gestion et pour rationaliser l'utilisation de l'ours polaire pour des raisons économiques. Thesis inuit inuits Nunavut ours polaire Theses Canada/Thèses Canada (Library and Archives Canada) Canada Nunavut |
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This thesis examines the complex social ecological system involving polar bear management in Nunavut and its conversion from a top-down system to a multi-level governance system. The interactions of the governance scale with the biophysical, economic and social/cultural scales are explored, with emphasis placed on the local levels of these scales. Co-management, as an instituted method of governance, is also examined to evaluate the incorporation of the Euro-Canadian and Inuit ideologies regarding polar bears. The hypothesis that Inuit would gain power through the authority granted to them in co-management was supported. However, the hypothesis that individual polar bear harvesters and other Inuit involved in the formal governance system would adopt the Euro-Canadian ideology due to the influences of the market economy and historic power of the top-down governance system was not well supported. Instead, Inuit used the Euro-Canadian tools of science and the market economy, but resisted top-down management views and the commoditization of polar bears in the market economy. Traditional understandings of social relationships among humans and between humans and bears based on the social economy of subsistence were used to oppose Euro-Canadian views in co-management and in structuring the use of polar bears for economic reasons. Cette thèse compare le système socio-écologique, impliquant la gestion des ours polaire du Nunavut, et la conversion d'un système de gestion directionel (« top-down ») vers un système de gouvernance multi-niveaux . Les interactions des échelles de gouvernance avec les éléments biophysiques, économiques et socio-culturelles sont abordées, en mettant l'accent sur les échelles locales. La co-gestion, comme méthode de gouvernance, est également examinée afin d'évaluer l'incorporation des idéologies Euro-Canadiennes et Inuits en ce qui concerne les ours polaires. Notre hypothèse de recherche stipule stipulant que les Inuits gagnent du pouvoir par l'acquisition d'une autorité accordée par la co-gestion. Toutefois, nos recherches n'ont pas corroboré l'hypothèse voulant que les individus chassant l'ours polaire et les autres Inuits impliqués dans le système formel de gouvernement adopteraient les idéologies Euro-Canadienne, en raison de l'influence du pouvoir du marché économique et historique présent dans le système de gestion directionnel. Au contraire, les Inuits utilisent les outils scientifiques Euro-Canadiens et l'économie de marché, mais résistent aux idées de gestion directive et la commercialisation des ours polaires dans l'économie de marché. La compréhension traditionelle des relations entre les Hommes, entre les Hommes et les ours polaires sur l'économie sociale de substistance a été utilisée afin d'opposer les idées Euro-Canadiennes de la co-gestion et pour rationaliser l'utilisation de l'ours polaire pour des raisons économiques. |
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The development of multi-level governance for the management of polar bears in Nunavut Territory, Canada |
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The development of multi-level governance for the management of polar bears in Nunavut Territory, Canada |
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