exploring the potential for achieving self-determined community economic development in nunavut: an examination of the government of nunavut’s economic development strategies
abstract
self-determined political and economic structures can nurture local capacity for
adaptive response to a rapidly changing climate and economy. what level of potential
for creating such structures is contained within nunavut’s economic development
strategies? in order to explore this topic, this investigation aimed to 1) identify the goals
of nunavut’s economic development strategies, 2) determine whether the goals are
currently achievable, and 3) describe how the contents of the economic development
strategies compare to what the literature says will produce community wellbeing. the
five economic development strategy documents produced by the government of
nunavut’s department of economic development and transportation were chosen for
analysis. this investigation focused on the challenge of attaining sustainable community
economic development within the context of a neo-colonial economic and political
regime. a directed content analysis was conducted. this analysis utilized the harvard
project’s nation-building framework as a foundation and then expanded upon it to
represent new themes that emerged from the documents. a second level analysis was
undertaken to examine the implementation plans in each strategy. this research
produces valuable baseline information regarding current territorial level economic goals
and plans, which will influence local capacity for adaptation and self-determination.
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