Final report - Integrated Land Management Bureau

with indicators, rationale, data sources, and desired direction for each indicator. These
objectives include:
Sustaining First Nations cultural/traditional sustenance resources (1
indicator)
Promoting community viability (2 indicators)
Promoting resource development by local individuals, communities and
contributing to local and provincial economies (4 indicators)
Diversifying the economies of First Nations and other communities (5
indicators, with data to be collected specifically for First Nations for 3 of
them)
Improving prospects for employment (3 indicators)
Promoting growth in income (2 indicators)
For the six objectives, a total of 16 indicators (including several that prescribe data
specific for First Nations) were identified by the authors of the agreements.
Tracking changes in human conditions is not a new process. Countless studies have been
conducted by social scientists such as anthropologists, sociologists, and public health
researchers on individuals and societies for many decades. Agencies that specialize in
social data such as Statistics Canada (through the national census) and BC Stats collect
and compile data on human behaviors, social conditions, and other indicators of human
well-being and make it available on websites and reports at various scales.
1.1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF WORK
In May 2007, The EBM Working Group (EBMWG) commissioned Rubus EcoScience
Alliance, a consortium of consultants, to propose a monitoring framework. This
framework is designed to measure the impacts of land use decisions, agreements, EBM
and other strategies on HWB on the North and Central coasts of BC. The Framework is
based on the indicators outlined in Schedules C and G in the agreements. The EBMWG
desires a monitoring framework that is based on the most current available science on
human well-being, but also is practical to measure in the remote communities of the
coast.
The project has involved:
literature review of frameworks of human well-being and review of current
work on human well being measurement relevant to the North and Central
Coast area. Nine frameworks used in Canada and globally were reviewed and are
summarized in Table 1 (page 18). Five themes were common in the frameworks:
social processes, health, economics, education, and culture. These themes are
considered to define the concept of well-being and provide categories
(“components”) to frame the indicators selected.
Local indicator processes reviewed included the Statistics Canada Human Well-
Being indicators posted on the website of the Center for Community Enterprise
(CEE), the University of British Columbia Resilient Communities and Coastal
Communities Projects, the B.C. Healthy Communities which posts the Social
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