Post on 02-Jan-2016
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Richard W. HaynesUSDA Forest Service
Pacific Northwest Research Station
Indicator 46—Viability and Adaptability of Forest and Range
Dependent Communities
Intent deals with the relation of forest or range management and the well-being of communities
Well-being reflects both jobs (economic well-being) and community attributes contributing to notions of community stability
Background
Developing a Measure Measures of economic dependency on natural
resources such as forests or rangeland Social well-being of communities.
Capacity of communities to deal with change Socioeconomic status of community members
Question of scale, National/Regional context set by the sustainable roundtable discussions
Evolution of terms Community stability Forest/range dependence Forest/range-based (or reliant) Community capacity Community resilience Community viability and adaptability
A Composite Measure Population density Proxy for lifestyle diversity
Minority status National Forest acres
Economic diversity Forestland acres Cattle inventory
Population and area by degree of adaptability and extent of forestland
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Population Area Population Area
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Low adaptability Medium and high adaptability
Counties with low variability and adaptability to changing economic conditions-forestland
Counties with low variability and adaptability to changing economic conditions-cattle
Future Work Need for refinement in the various proxies How do we assess range reliance Need to consider how to reframe the
science/policy discussion in terms of the actual spatial hierarchy.
Need to develop comparable community data bases for social and economic conditions.