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Delimiting Communities in the Pacific Northwest

出版	U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 2003
主題	Nature / Ecosystems & Habitats / Forests & RainforestsScience / Life Sciences / EcologySocial Science / Human Geography
ISBN	07567385129780756738518
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ybAfzQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The paper presents an approach for delimiting communities in the Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP) region of the Pacific Northwest that responds to the need to assess impacts and issues associated with broad-scale ecosystem management. Census block groups are aggregated to provide an alternative to more commonly used geographic delimitations of communities, specifically census places. With the block group aggregation approach, census data can be applied to almost 1.5 million more people in the NWFP region than would be represented by using census places. The delimitation of community boundaries is intended to facilitate future research on understanding and characterizing conditions, structures, and change. Factors to consider in conducting social science research at the small scale are discussed. Ways in which communities have been defined for social assessments and monitoring are identified. The influence of data availability on determining the unit of analysis and research focus at the small scale is discussed.