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Protecting Cultural Environments in Northern Wisconsin: Anthropology’s Contribution to a Tribal Initiative
In 2012, the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians engaged research specialists working in several different fields, including anthropology, the physical sciences, and law. Our assignment was to assemble a report to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) about air quality on the tribe’s reservation in northern Wisconsin. With this report, the tribe aims to redesignate its reservation’s air quality from Class II to Class I under the “Prevention of Significant Deterioration” provisions of the federal Clean Air Act. Continue reading
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Tagged air quality, conservation, consultancy, engagement, EPA, food, indigenous people, mining, United States, wisconsin
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Cloaking, not Bleaching: the Back Story from Inside Bureaucracy
…good bureaucracies do not bleach out local context. Instead, they create big, simplified umbrellas that cloak the complex, dynamic range of local circumstances and thereby give the staff of government bureaucracies the space to address local circumstances despite changes in political direction. I base this assertion on twenty-five years’ experience working with USAID, and on the literature on good governance. Continue reading
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Tagged biodiversity, bureaucracy, conservation, consultancy, development, engagement, United States, USAID
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