The Effect of Communication on Individual Preferences for Common Property Resources : A Case Study of Two Canadian First Nations ...
Increasingly, Indigenous Peoples are being re-empowered to make decisions about whether to approve development on their lands. But how these decisions are made has received little attention in the literature. Oftentimes, referenda or the solicitation of individual preferences through surveys may be...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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The University of British Columbia
2019
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0340041 https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0340041 |
| Summary: | Increasingly, Indigenous Peoples are being re-empowered to make decisions about whether to approve development on their lands. But how these decisions are made has received little attention in the literature. Oftentimes, referenda or the solicitation of individual preferences through surveys may be used as input into the acceptability of proposed development. However, the focus on individuals does not necessarily incorporate how community members perceive the collective benefits associated with these land use decisions, nor recognize the collective deliberation procedures employed by many of these cultures. Drawing on the results from a choice experiment with two Canadian First Nations groups, this paper examines whether communication in a group-setting influences individual preferences for three land use alternatives: Industrial Development, Tourism Promotion, and Conservation & Restoration. These alternatives had different economic and environmental attributes, expressed at more individual and ... |
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