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Item Aboriginal and local perspectives on the community benefits of conservation: A case study of a proposed Canadian National Park and the Lutsel K’e Dene First Nation(Geography Research Forum, 2010) Bennett, Nathan; Lemelin, Raynard; Ellis, StephenLutsel K’e, Northwest Territories, is a rural Aboriginal (Dene) community with a population of 400 that could soon become the gateway to the third largest national park in Canada. The Thaidene Nene Working Group of the Lutsel K’e Dene First Nation is interested in the potential of the park in contributing to local socio-economic development. A collaborative research project with researchers from Lakehead University in Canada, examined various perspectives on how to maximize local development potentials in the community, with the purpose of providing information to the community and Parks Canada for direct use in park and community planning and development. This descriptive paper focuses on local and Aboriginal community member perspectives on the perceived and desired benefits of the creation of a national park in the traditional territory of the Lutsel K’e Dene First Nation.Item Address to COOP Seminar - University of Victoria March 5, 1980(2015-08-14) Dobell, RodItem Appraising the Nisga'a Final Agreement(2015-09-03) Dobell, RodItem Approaches to risk in public management(2015-11-04) Dobell, Rod; Parson, Edward A.Item The Arithmetic of Risk: Analytical Problems and Political Solutions(The Institute for Research on Public Policy, 1980) Dobell, RodItem B.C. offshore hydrocarbon development: Environmental risks and policy perspectives(2015-12-01) Dobell, RodItem The Behaviour of the Canadian Foreign Exchange Market: A Preliminary Time Series Analysis(Unknown, 1967-08) Dobell, Rod; Officer, Lawrence H.From the INTRODUCTION: The Canadian foreign exchange market has often been studies a s a part of various "complete" econometric models of the Canadian economy.(1) So far as we know, however, there has not been extensive study of the behaviour of the time series of price and quantity data generated in the foreign exchange market by trading among the large Canadian banks (the chartered banks, the Montreal City and District Savings Bank, and the Bank of Canada). In contrast to estimation of macro-economic models, such a study can exploit the advantage of very long and precise time series, and may therefore make effective use of tools of time series analysis which are usually difficult to apply to economic data. (2)Item BOOM-BOOM: The Geoffrion Solution for IM: Bounded Objectives-Oriented Management (Iterated)(2015-10-01) Dobell, RodItem The British Columbia case: Natural resource management and sustainable development(2015-11-04) Dobell, Rod; Mitchell, DarcyItem Building capital: The social dimension of sustainable development(2015-08-25) Maxwell, Judith; Barbolet, Herb; MacLeod, Greg; Robinson, Peter; Tansey, JamesItem The capacity to adapt?: communities in a changing climate, environment, and economy on the northern Andaman coast of Thailand(Ecology and Society, 2014) Bennett, Nathan; Dearden, Philip; Murray, Grant; Kadfak, AlinThe health and productivity of marine ecosystems, habitats, and fisheries are deteriorating on the Andaman coast of Thailand. Because of their high dependence on natural resources and proximity to the ocean, coastal communities are particularly vulnerable to climate-induced changes in the marine environment. These communities must also adapt to the impacts of management interventions and conservation initiatives, including marine protected areas, which have livelihood implications. Further, communities on the Andaman coast are also experiencing a range of new economic opportunities associated in particular with tourism and agriculture. These complex and ongoing changes require integrated assessment of, and deliberate planning to increase, the adaptive capacity of communities so that they may respond to: (1) environmental degradation and fisheries declines through effective management interventions or conservation initiatives, (2) new economic opportunities to reduce dependence on fisheries, and (3) the increasing impacts of climate change. Our results are from a mixed methods study, which used surveys and interviews to examine multiple dimensions of the adaptive capacity of seven island communities near marine protected areas on the Andaman coast of Thailand. Results show that communities had low adaptive capacity with respect to environmental degradation and fisheries declines, and to management and conservation interventions, as well as uneven levels of adaptive capacity to economic opportunities. Though communities and households were experiencing the impacts of climate change, especially storm events, changing seasons and weather patterns, and erosion, they were reacting to these changes with limited knowledge of climate change per se. We recommend interventions, in the form of policies, programs, and actions, at multiple scales for increasing the adaptive capacity of Thailand’s coastal communities to change. The analytical and methodological approach used for examining adaptive capacity could be easily modified and applied to other contexts and locales.Item A capital assets framework for appraising and building capacity for tourism development in aboriginal protected area gateway communities(Elsevier Ltd., 2012) Bennett, Nathan; Lemelin, Raynald H.; Koster, Rhonda; Budke, IsabelTourism may constitute an important livelihood option and conservation incentive for communities located near protected areas (PAs). Gateway communities can benefit significantly from the development of tourism through increased employment, financial gains, infrastructure creation, cultural revitalization, and environmental protection. Yet, tourism is not a panacea for PA communities and the development of a local tourism industry often fails to deliver significant economic, social, cultural, and environmental benefits. Clearly defined frameworks for maximizing the benefits from tourism development for PA communities are needed so that tourism can more directly support community development and conservation efforts. This paper presents a framework for appraising and building community capacity for tourism development in aboriginal protected area gateway communities. The framework was developed through the analysis of qualitative results from five different research projects around seven capital assets (i.e., natural, physical and built, financial, political and institutional, social, cultural, and human capitals). Preliminary results from application and testing of the framework are also explored. The framework presented herein has significant potential for broader application in non-aboriginal, international, and non-protected area communities.Item Citizen Agency and Social Capital: Embracing the Bright Shadows of the Future in Public Administration(Law Commission of Canada, 1999) Dobell, Rod; Slaco, Debra; Longo, JustinItem Clayoquot Alliance for Research, Education and Training: Exploring borderlands, bridging boundaries(2015-07-21) Bannister, Kelly; Behr, Towagh; Boychuk, Stan; Crookes, Nadine; Dobell, Rod; Harron, Sylvia; LeRoy, Sean; Morgan, Anne; Schreiber, Gerry; Yakimishyn, JenniferItem Collective decisions involving risk: A literature review(2015-11-14) Dobell, Rod; Parson, Edward A.This working paper was developed in response to a request for an address on the responsibilities of public servants in dealing with risks to the public. It surveys a portion of the growing literature relevant to collective decisions involving risk. It is intended primarily to provide some helpful introductory background to public servants and students of public administration coming to this topic without substantial expertise. Its purpose is therefore expository, and the style descriptive. This review simply attempts to organize some elements of a large and disparate literature, without developing any one analytical approach or institutional process in detail, and with no pretense of being complete or exhaustive.Item Coming Up to 1984: Notes and Readings on Access to Information: A Matter of Securtiy, A Matter of Privacy(University of Victoria, 1982) Dobell, RodIntroduction Technological change generates many old problems posed in new ways. These notes and readings are designed to encourage some reflection on two fundamental problems rendered sharper by the revolution in information handling, itself made possible by new developments in computers and communications. The first problem is that of mechanisms for accountability and control to prevent crime, fraud, or other abuse of systems for handling financial transactions and financial records. How secure are present computer-bases systems against sophisticated forms of theft or conspiracy?Item A Comment on A. Y. C. Koo's "An Empirical Test of Revealed Preference Theory"(The Econometric Society, 1965-04) Dobell, RodFocuses on the objection and modification of Koo's paper on standard results in graph theory. Development of the theory of revealed preference from a binary relation; Definition of binary relation; Demonstration on the axiom of individual demand functions.Item Conservation Guidelines for Modernist Architecture in the Victoria Region(2020-01-10) Segger, MartinGuidelines provides a framework for articulating the significance of project authorship and “design intent” in the process of developing strategies for preserving the Modernist architectural heritage in Victoria, British Columbia (1935-1975). It outlines an aesthetic historical context, presents a summary of the unique design vocabulary of regional Modernism, and provides a series of case studies that illustrate how the intentions of designers and builders can be respected and preserved within differing building types.