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A major challenge in achieving sustainability is resolving conflicts between competing stakeholders over the use of natural resources. Recent literature on land use planning proposes the use of innovative shared decision-making (SDM) or collaborative planning models to resolve planning disputes. British Columbia (B.C.) is the only jurisdiction that has applied SDM approaches in a systematic way for land and resource use planning on Crown land. This program provides a unique opportunity to evaluate these new approaches. The purpose of this research is to assess the effectiveness of the SDM approach used to develop the B.C. Land and Resource Management Plans (LRMPs). Based on a literature review of dispute resolution,...
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Natural resource planning and management in British Columbia is increasingly a challenging task. Community, First Nation, and non-traditional resource user groups are now demanding a much greater role in decision making. Simultaneously, growing awareness of the interrelated nature of environmental problems highlights the need for a more integrated analytical perspective. In this context, the ability to cope with diverse values and high levels of uncertainty is an essential attribute of effective approaches to natural resource planning and management. Traditional analysis techniques, procedures and institutions are hampered by an inability to address conflicting and multiple value judgments, a failure to acknowledge...
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To accurately represent subsurface flow in a hydrologic model of permafrost terrain during spring thaw, an understanding of soil thaw and soil thaw rates is required. Research was conducted on an organic-covered hillslope in Granger Basin, Yukon Territory, to quantify relationships between net radiation, snowmelt and soil thaw energy. The infiltration and freezing of meltwater into the soil may contribute to pre-thaw warming. When this energy (1.82 MJ·m -2 ·d-1 ) is taken into account, the daily mean contribution to soil thaw from net radiation is approximately 9%. Measured and estimated soil thaw depths compared well (R2 = 0.75) when energy was distributed across the hillslope. This research contributes to the...
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To accurately represent subsurface flow in a hydrologic model of permafrost terrain during spring thaw, an understanding of soil thaw and soil thaw rates is required. Research was conducted on an organic-covered hillslope in Granger Basin, Yukon Territory, to quantify relationships between net radiation, snowmelt and soil thaw energy. The infiltration and freezing of meltwater into the soil may contribute to pre-thaw warming. When this energy (1.82 MJ·m -2 ·d-1 ) is taken into account, the daily mean contribution to soil thaw from net radiation is approximately 9%. Measured and estimated soil thaw depths compared well (R2 = 0.75) when energy was distributed across the hillslope. This research contributes to the...
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To accurately represent subsurface flow in a hydrologic model of permafrost terrain during spring thaw, an understanding of soil thaw and soil thaw rates is required. Research was conducted on an organic-covered hillslope in Granger Basin, Yukon Territory, to quantify relationships between net radiation, snowmelt and soil thaw energy. The infiltration and freezing of meltwater into the soil may contribute to pre-thaw warming. When this energy (1.82 MJ·m -2 ·d-1 ) is taken into account, the daily mean contribution to soil thaw from net radiation is approximately 9%. Measured and estimated soil thaw depths compared well (R2 = 0.75) when energy was distributed across the hillslope. This research contributes to the...
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