The costs of power sharing : community involvement in Canadian porcupine caribou co-management ...

• Main Author: Kofinas, Gary Peter
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: University of British Columbia 2009
• Subjects: Aklavik; Fort McPherson
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0088701; https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0088701

Co-management arrangements are commonly framed with the theoretical assumption that community management systems function with a minimum of transaction costs and government-community power sharing lowers overall costs of management. Commonly overlooked both practically and theoretically are costs to communities. This dissertation investigates the involvement of three northern indigenous communities in a wildlife co-management arrangement to delineate community costs of power sharing. The subject of the study is the internationally migratory Porcupine Caribou Herd, Canada's three primary Porcupine Caribou user communities (Old Crow, YT, Aklavik, NT, and Fort McPherson, NT), and the resource regime established by the Canadian Porcupine Caribou Management Agreement and The Agreement between the Governments of Canada and the United States for the Conservation of Porcupine Caribou. Using multiple sources of evidence and drawing on the ethnographic method, the study documents emergent communication linkages ...