Collaboratively Producing Indicators of Cultural, Social, and Economic Well-Being to Assess Resilience and Vulnerability in the North
Summary:
Indicators of vulnerability and resilience developed by scientists and government researchers are often predicated on data sets that may work in the global south but are not culturally, socially, or economically relevant in predominately Indigenous communities in the north (Himes-Cornell & Kasperski, 2015, 2016; Holen, 2017). Ideas such as sustainability and resilience are concepts sometimes difficult to convey when explaining the relevance of research to mostly remote rural northern communities. However, the concept of community well-being is a framework that provides promise. This panel will try to deconstruct the inherent juxtaposition of government and research data based on resilience, sustainability, and vulnerability indices necessary for community decision-making and local perceptions of those same indices. This panel will discuss ideas for working more closely with communities to collaboratively produce social science indices that are culturally appropriate and embody local and traditional ways of knowing through a framework focusing on community wellbeing (Brinkman et al., 2016; Cold et al., 2020; Donkersloot et al., 2020; Yua, Raymond-Yakoubian, Daniel, & Behe, 2022).
Litterature Cited
Facilitator:
Davin Holen, Associate Professor and Coastal Community Resilience Specialist, Alaska Sea Grant, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Panelists:
Grace Ellwanger, Economic Development and Environmental Programs Coordinator, Kodiak Area Native Association
Dr. Lee Huskey, Professor Emeritus, College of Business and Public Policy, University of Alaska Anchorage
Dr. Andrey Petrov, Professor, Department of Geography, Director, ARCTICenter, University of Northern Iowa
Dr. Marysia Szymkowiak, Social Scientist, NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center
Simultaneous translation in English and in French available.
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