Understanding Vulnerability in Alaska Fishing Communities: A Validation Methodology for Rapid Assessment of Well-Being Indices

Social well-being indices measure how fishing communities are likely to be affected by social-ecological perturbations, and are a significant tool to identify the primary issues influencing communities’ sustained participation in fishing activities. In an attempt to further our understanding of how communities are affected by such perturbations, we have developed a rapid assessment methodology to test the external validity of a set of well-being indices that measure community vulnerability. This methodology informs how well such indices reflect the communities they represent by measuring elements of well-being through field observations, and comparing them to corresponding index components created from secondary data sources. This process helps us understand how well predetermined components of the well-being indices represent real-world conditions observed by researchers.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (MS)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Resource Management

Year dc:date.available

2015

Author dc:creator

• Maguire, Conor M.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Steven Hackenberger
• Amber Himes-Cornell
• James Huckabay

• Well-being
• Vulnerability
• Mixed-Methods
• Alaska fisheries
• Resilience
• Community-Based Research
• Demography, Population, and Ecology
• Environmental Indicators and Impact Assessment
• Environmental Studies
• Human Ecology
• Natural Resources Management and Policy
• Policy Design, Analysis, and Evaluation
• Public Policy
• Quantitative, Qualitative, Comparative, and Historical Methodologies
• Social Statistics
• Social Welfare
• Statistical Methodology

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/etd/251

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.cwu.edu:etd-1242