Governance and Territorial Development in an Insular Environment: The Case of Isle-Aux-Coudres (Quebec-Canada)/Gouvernance et Developpement Territorial En Milieu Insulaire: Le Cas De l'Isle-Aux-Coudres (Quebec-Canada)
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Abstract
Abstract In this paper, we study governance practices in Isle-aux-Coudres, an island in the St-Lawrence Estuary, from a territorial development perspective. Various factors can influence the territorial development of insular environments, such as the confinement of activities in a limited space, the limited nature of resources, the sense of identity and an insular identity. We identify the processes by which various actors (from public, private, and civil society spheres) participate, and describe the strategies used in reaction to four local challenges: demographic changes, the ferry, riparian zone management and tourism development. We also study an integrated management project started in 2001, in order to better understand the impact of the introduction of new governance practices on the development of the island. We note the importance of the municipality in the modes of governance analyzed and its integration into the regional system. The data analysis also highlights the difficulties of bringing the various actors together around diverse challenges, without trying to arrive at a consensus. Nevertheless, the relatively small number of actors and the intensity of the linkages maintained between them allows for a better sharing of information, gives a better social control that respects the rules and, in the final analysis, favours solidarity and a common understanding of the challenges. Resume Dans le cadre de cet article nous etudions les modes de gouvernance a l'Isle-aux-Coudres, une ile de l'estuaire du Saint-Laurent (Quebec), dans une optique de developpement territorial. Le continement des activites dans un espace defini (ile), l'isolement (accessibilite), le caractere limite des ressources, le sentiment d'appartenance et l'identite insulaire sont des aspects qui peuvent influencer le developpement territorial des milieux insulaires. Nous identifions les processus de participation des acteurs (public, prive et societe civile) et les strategies deployees pour reagir a quatre enjeux locaux : les changements demographiques, le traversier, la gestion de la bande riveraine et le developpement du secteur touristique. Nous etudions un projet de gestion integree amorce en 2001 pour mieux comprendre les effets de l'introduction d'un nouveau mode de gouvernance sur le developpement de l'ile. Nous constatons l'importance de la municipalite dans les modes de gouvemance analyses et son integration dans le systeme regional. L'analyse des donnees met aussi en relief les difficultes a reunir les differents acteurs autour de divers enjeux, sans se cantonner au consensuel. Neanmoins, le nombre relativement petit des acteurs et l'intensite des liens qu'ils entretiennent entre eux permet un meilleur partage de l'information, assure un controle social garantissant le respect des regles et enfin, favorise la solidarite et la comprehension commune des enjeux. ********** Cet article traite des modes de gouvernance a l'Isle-aux-Coudres, une ile de l'estuaire du Saint-Laurent (Quebec), dans une optique de developpement territorial. Nous identifions les processus de participation des acteurs (public, prive et societe civile) et les strategies deployees pour reagir a divers enjeux locaux. Ce faisant nous ferons egalement le suivi du projet de gestion integree amorce en 2001 qui nous fournira des elements historiques pour analyser l'impact de l'introduction de nouveaux modes de gouvernance pour favoriser le developpement de l'ile. Les insulaires rencontrent des defis sociaux, economiques et environnementaux similaires a de nombreux milieux ruraux et cotiers quebecois : migration des jeunes, vieillissement de la population, faible diversification de l'economie, erosion des berges ou augmentation de la valeur fonciere. Cependant, le confinement des actives dans un espace defini (ile), l'isolement (accessibilite), le caractere limite des ressources, le sentiment d'appartenance et l'identite insulaire sont des aspects qui peuvent influencer le developpement territorial des milieux insulaires. …
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".