Delimiting Communities in the Pacific Northwest

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Year: 2003
Pages: 51
Binding Paperback

Product Code: 0756738512

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Ellen M. Donoghue (au). Presents an approach for delimiting communities in the Pacific NW that responds to the need to asses impacts & issues assoc. with broad-scale ecosystem mgmt. Census block groups are aggregated to provide an alternative to more commonly used geog. delimitations of communities, specifically census places. With the block group aggregation approach, census data can be applied to almost 1.5 mill. more people than would be represented by using census places. Discusses factors to consider in conducting social science res. at the small scale (SC). Ways in which communities have been defined for social assessments & monitoring are identified. Discusses the influence of data avail. on determining the unit of analysis & res. focus at the SC. Illus.

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