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5. Community Involvement and Traditional Knowledge
Pages 59-65

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From page 59...
... Early Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council documents indicated a desire to incorporate community involvement and traditional knowledge into the new GEM program, and the Trustee Council made many efforts over the past decade to create opportunities for community involvement in the program, with varying degrees of success. However, this emphasis on community involvement and traditional knowledge appears to have receded in successive documents reviewed by the committee.
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From page 60...
... The issue of the relationship between the traditional scientific community and the communities of the Exxon Valdez oil spill region presents a second broad rationale for incorporation of community involvement and traditional knowledge into the GEM program. The second rationale rests on an equity argument, which is distinct from the utilitarian rationale above.
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From page 61...
... . The GEM program
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From page 62...
... , and on participatory research (e.g., Castellano, 1993; Chambers, 1997; Hall, 1981; Holland and Blackburn, 1998; Park 1993; Park and Williams, 1999~. A pervasive theme throughout this literature is the relationship between local people and scientific research programs that is directly relevant to the community involvement/traditional knowledge issues confronting the GEM program.
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From page 63...
... Alaskan native communities have no direct representation on the Trustee Council and this appears to be a source of tension distinct from more general questions of involvement. The Chugach Council representatives who met with the committee spoke of a desire to institute a community GEM program on a government-to-gov
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From page 64...
... The committee repeats its recommendation from its interim report: GEM should pursue an approach to community involvement based on shared power and shared opportunity between the scientific and local communities. The goal of shared power requires community representation at all organizational levels.
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... As one step in rethinking its commitment to community involvement, the Trustee Council should review community outreach programs designed by the Prince William Sound Regional Citizen's Advisory Council, which have been successfully used in communities and native villages affected by the Exxon Valdez oil spill (~. This may provide direction for designing activities that promote substantive participation and involvement of local residents in all phases of the GEM program.
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