Collaboration versus communication: The Department of Energy’s Amchitka Island and the Aleut Community

• Published in: Environmental Research
• Main Authors: Burger, Joanna, Gochfeld, Michael, Pletnikoff, Karen
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Article; Amchitka; Amchitka Island; aleut; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4300131; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19264301; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2009.01.002

Increasingly managers and scientists are recognizing that solving environmental problems requires the inclusion of a wide range of disciplines, governmental agencies, Native American tribes, and other stakeholders. Usually such inclusion involves communication at the problem-formulation phase, and a...