| Summary: | In accordance with international law and custom, Canada declared an exclusive economic zone of 2.9 million km² when it passed the Oceans Act in 1997. Extensive resource management responsibilities were associated with this declaration. An early effort to engage a northern coastal community in the first stages of an integrated management planning process focused on the small northern community of Churchill, Manitoba, and a 150 km stretch of the Hudson Bay coastline. The steps taken included communicating the importance of management planning for the town's coastal region; conducting personal interviews on coastal activities and concerns with a representative sample of the community; consolidating, tabulating, and mapping the results of these interviews; verifying results with the community; and evaluating the effectiveness of the process used. The approach taken, as well as the weeks spent living in the community, were important factors in developing a relationship of trust between the researcher and the community. Those interviewed were more comfortable participating once they had had a number of opportunities to become familiar with the context of the study, its relevance to them, and the researcher. En adoptant la Loi sur les océans en 1997, le Canada a déclaré une zone économique exclusive de 2,9 millions de km², en vertu du droit international. D'importantes responsabilités de gestion des ressources étaient rattachées à cette déclaration. Une première tentative visant à amener une communauté côtière du Nord à participer aux étapes préliminaires d'un processus de planification de gestion intégrée a porté sur la petite collectivité nordique de Churchill, au Manitoba, et sur un tronçon de 150 km du rivage de la baie d'Hudson. Les démarches entreprises comprenaient: la communication de l'importance de la planification de la gestion pour la région côtière de la ville; la réalisation d'entrevues personnelles sur les activités et les enjeux reliés à la côte avec un échantillon représentatif de la communauté; le ...
|
|---|