Abstract
Blair, B., A. L. Lovecraft, and G. P. Kofinas. 2014. Meeting institutional criteria for social resilience: a nested risk system model. Ecology and Society 19(4): 36. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06944-190436
Highlights
Alaska communities face stresses from the effects of climate change, natural resource development, competing land-use needs, and changing social and economic conditions
What avenues exist for citizens and decision makers to exchange knowledge about impacts of oil resource extraction in Alaska, and how do the successes and failures of knowledge exchange affect the resilience of the local social ecological system? We focused our research on the risk management process of Alaska North Slope oil resources, drawing on literature that has grown out of the risk society thesis and concepts of resilience science
In our study of the public process, we focused on the inclusion of indigenous knowledge in decision making because the primary stakeholders who occupy the lands of the North Slope are Alaska Natives whose culture and livelihood depend on a subsistence way of life (Weinhold 2010)
Summary
Alaska communities face stresses from the effects of climate change, natural resource development, competing land-use needs, and changing social and economic conditions (see, e.g., ACIA 2005, Chapin et al 2006, McBeath et al 2008, Kofinas et al 2010). In our study of the public process, we focused on the inclusion of indigenous knowledge in decision making because the primary stakeholders who occupy the lands of the North Slope are Alaska Natives whose culture and livelihood depend on a subsistence way of life (Weinhold 2010). We considered indigenous knowledge to be the local knowledge unique to a given culture or society (Berkes 2012) and, the knowledge unique to Alaska Iñupiat peoples
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