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Forestry Advance Access originally published online on September 6, 2005
Forestry 2005 78(5):513-539; doi:10.1093/forestry/cpi048
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Local-level criteria and indicators: an Aboriginal perspective on sustainable forest management

Erin Sherry1, Regine Halseth2, Gail Fondahl3,*, Melanie Karjala4 and Beverly Leon5

1 Northern Aboriginal Research and Development Alliance, University of Northern British Columbia, 3333 University Way, Prince George, BC V2N 4Z9, Canada
2 UNBC
3 Geography Program, UNBC
4 Aleza Lake Research Forest, UBC/UNBC
5 Tl'azt'en Nation, UNBC Community University Research Alliance Project

* Corresponding author. E-mail: fondahlg{at}unbc.ca

As tools for improving the sustainability of forest management, criteria and indicator (C&I) frameworks have grown in popularity over the last decade. Such frameworks have been largely derived from top-down approaches to determining critical measures of forest management success. While useful, they fail to capture many C&I of critical importance to local populations, who experience forest management strategies first hand and who have their own definitions of sustainability. Using archival materials, our research begins to identify one First Nation's forest values and compares these local-level C&I with three well-known C&I frameworks for sustainable forestry. We demonstrate that local-level definitions can provide additional C&I, as well as additional levels of detail to C&I that they share with the national and international frameworks. Both are crucial to developing strategies for sustainable management that meet local as well as broader needs and desires.

Received 17 January 2005.
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