Module 3: Objectives

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Module 3 Objectives

• You will be able to
• Define your community
• Describe the benefits that FWS brings to the
  community
• Mod 3.1

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Module 3 Objectives

• Describe the benefits to FWS and your vision that
  the community can offer
• Identify the steps in conducting a community
  assessment.
• Mod 3.2

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Defining Community

• As geographical regions come to be viewed as
  diversified biological and socio-economic
  systems, it is becoming increasingly difficult to
  constrain them within unnaturally imposed
  boundaries.
• Eco-Mapping Planning and Management of
  Bio-Social Ecosystems
• Dan Baharav, James A Kent and Eva Baharav
• Mod 3.3

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Defining Community

• Historically, the places where people lived,
  worked and played in...communities overlapped
  strongly. Contemporary... communities have
  become less insulated, with residents involved in
  networks extending far beyond the traditional
  community boundaries. This disjuncture of the
  physical and functional challenges a communitys
  sense of itself, but can also provide important
  links to outside visions and resources.
• Sustaining the Rural Landscape by Building
  Community Social Capital
• Community Development Reports
• Cornell Community and Rural Development Institute
• Mod 3.4

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Defining Community

• Today, in ecosystem management...management
  boundaries are being redrawn to coincide more
  with watersheds, natural ecosystems, and geologic
  provinces. From mapping informal cultural
  systems over the years, we have found that the
  human geographic units often correspond at a
  certain scale to these ecological units.
  Differences occur when technological intrusions
  or economic changes affect boundaries...
• Social Ecology A New Pathway to Watershed
  Restoration
• Kevin Preister and James A Kent
• Mod 3.5

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Criteria for Identifying Stakeholders

• Those individuals and groups
• who are impacted, directly or indirectly
• who support, directly or indirectly
• whose support is needed, directly or indirectly
• Mod 3.6

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Criteria for Identifying Stakeholders

• with the potential to support, directly or
  indirectly, including non-traditional allies
• who are responsible for or to the mission or
  vision
• who have a legal, social/cultural and/or moral
  interest.
• Mod 3.7

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• Benefit
• A benefit is a positive outcome or result
• something that is gained because of...

• Serve or in service to
• To help or aid helpful or friendly action.
• To provide with the act of providing people with
  the use of
• To be of assistance to or promote the interests
  of Mod 3. 8

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Results of a Community Assessment

• A description of the community or planning area.
• An identification of community values.
• An inventory of natural and human-made features.
• Mod 3.9

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Results of a Community Assessment

• An evaluation of economic conditions.
• An evaluation of public facility and
  infrastructure capacity and effectiveness.
• Linkages among social, economic and environmental
  issues.
• Mod 3.10

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Steps in Conducting aCommunity Assessment

• Get the right people involved.
• Determine the Planning Area Boundary.
• Gather information.
• Get personal.
• Review and organize information.
• Mod 3.11

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Community Assessment

• Areas of Focus
• Environmental/natural resources
• Economic resources
• Public policies, regulations and practices
• Public facilities and infrastructure
• Health and health resources
• Social capital/cultural resources
• Mod 3.12