Co-operation Incorporated: Responding to Resource Privatization through an Indigenous Regional Development Corporation in British Columbia, Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
"In the Province of British Columbia (BC), Canada, groups of Indigenous Peoples, known as First Nations (FN), are reclaiming the right to own and govern portions of their traditional territories. Currently land treaties between the governments of BC, Canada, and various FN are nearing settlement. Therefore, BC is now considering how an approach to FN relations that maintains and encourages sustainable economic development for both parties, might operate. A strategy encouraged by the Province for the West Coast of Vancouver Island (WCVI) is the development of beach and ocean tenures for shellfish aquaculture. This move seems well-advised to some as the WCVI is known for its pristine waters and existing wild clam harvest, an activity that many coastal FN take pride in, and in recent decades, have earned seasonal income from. However, to shift from the wild harvest of clams to shellfish aquaculture requires a shift from communal to privatized use of coastline. Therefore, the paper will begin by describing how changes in harvest structure have been introduced by The Province. \n \n"Thus far shellfish aquaculture has been confronted by the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council, 14 bands that inhabit the WCVI, in two ways. One, strongly influenced by the provincial government, was to independently implement shellfish aquaculture in as many bands as possible. The second focuses on co-operation and mentoring between bands and other businesses. Through nuanced, culturally-sensitive planning, the Nuu-chah-nulth Seafood Development Corporation (NSDC) is hoping to address hurdles many FN face when "doing business in a world that often has disparate views on the environment, family, time, and distribution of wealth. To conclude, the paper will explore the evolution of the NSDC and briefly comment upon how its current configuration was somewhat unanticipated, but potentially provides greater benefits. This work stems from interviews and the analysis of public discourse/documents."
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.013 | 0.001 |
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; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".