Integrated Outreach Paper

Requests for the paper can be made at tony@seaofcompanions.org

A broad method for executing a plan of action to assimilate into a developing nation’s culture & society within the conservation agenda

Anthony James Brunn

Sea of Companions LLC

1422 Peach Ave #2

El Cajon, CA 92021

U.S.A.

Table of contents:

Overview

Thesis

Mission Statement

Equipment & Services

Research the Country:

1) Historiography 

2) Government Representation & Executive Offices

             a. Departments

             b. Government Revenue Sources 

                           i. Tax Rate Structures

             c. Immigration Policy 

                           i. Civil Rights

                           ii. Voting Rights

                           iii. Land / Business Ownership

                           iv. Work Visas

                           v. Capable Influence

3) Nonprofit Organizations

              a. Domestic

              b. International

                            i. Ownership

                            ii. Regional Programs 

               c. Managers

4) Infrastructure Projects and Their Contractors

5 ) Private Industries, Businesses and Organizations  

                a. Social Influences

                             i. Economic Influences

                             ii. Environmental Impacts

                             iii. Financial Resources Used

                             iv. Accountability and                  

b. Performance Analysis

Set Up, Resources & Methodology:

6) Residential Base

7) Communication Networks

                b. Cellular

                c. Satellite

                d. VHF Radio

                e. Combined Capabilities

8) Communication Channels

9) Medical & Health

10) Human Resources

                a. Collegiate Scholars

11) Water & Soil Data Collection

12) Geographic Access

Define Influences on Society and Identify the Economies

13) Courage & Time

                 a. Example

14) People of Regional Influence 

15) Community Integration

                          i. Examples (5)

               a. Marine Services Areas

                          i. Example

               b. Coastal Fisherman

                         ii. Example

               c. In The Back Country

               d. Cultural & Family Values

                           i. Spatial Data

               e. Social Morality Concerns

                           i. Example 

               f. Alien Land Holders

               g. Short Term Renters

               h. Social Class

                i. Religion 

                j. Power vs. Personal Empowerment 

                           i. Examples

                k. The Media

Identify Relevant Stakeholders

17) The Leaders Movers & Shakers

                 a. Spatial Data

                           i. Example

                b. Importing Governance

                c. The Economies

                d. Corruption

                e. Eco Tourism / New Businesses 

Achievement & Policy:

18) Government Sanctioned

19) Benefits, Barriers & Threats

20) Anonymity

21) Boundaries & Credibility

Post Script:

Appendix:

Overview:

Meeting today’s growing conservation challenges requires that we find new ways of thinking about and practicing conservation, rooted in solving social problems through scalable methods and prototypes that deliver results. The supposition of this paper was accurately presented in this 2016 writing from Fred Nelson and Alasdair Harris. 

We need a revitalized suite of ideas and practices for fostering innovation, scaling up solutions, enabling new ways of networking and organizing, and encouraging collaborations with transformative potential. today’s increasingly complex and crowded world, finding ways to sustain biodiversity and natural systems mostly comes down to changing human behavior—the core driver of biodiversity loss and ecological degradation, such as patterns of land or resource use, species exploitation, or discharge of pollutants—at local, national, or global scale. As a result, over the past 30 years the entire conservation field has developed under something of a false premise that it is primarily about biodiversity science, when it is really about social change. 

Today, the field is much better at diagnosing problems—understanding why species are disappearing or ecosystems are degrading (a biology question)—rather than developing solutions (a social behavioral challenge). And while today’s graduates in conservation science are typically equipped with a broader pedigree of skills that encompass new perspectives in economics and social science, the sector’s historic roots within academia perpetuates a funding and organizational culture that values scholarly analysis over practical action, and precaution over risk-taking. We cannot understate the estimable dedication and commitment of those scientists to conservation, yet it is unlikely that the revolutionary acceleration of innovation needed so urgently across the sector will arise from within the academy.

We need to develop a more integrative approach in which the centrality of humans is recognized in the conservation agenda. Conservationists need to fundamentally reframe conservation as a process of social and human behavioral change, and direct resources toward enabling conservationists to facilitate such changes. Having a clear definition of the root problem and conceptual basis for the field is a prerequisite for improving practice and impact.

By Fred Nelson & Alasdair Harris Aug 22, 2016. Maliasili Initiatives & Blue Ventures

Thesis: 

Environmental conservation sustainability requires government incentives which are influenced by internal desires rather than international outside pressures. This requires outside conservationists to assimilate into various cultures to understand social motivation.

Mission:

Establish working relationships with humanitarian aid agencies and environmental conservation organizations with developing nation’s initiatives and collect relevant regional information for long term success. Identify ground root cultural and social unknown influences that are or may become barriers of current or desired initiatives. Identify the circumstances of influence within the social and cultural heritage in regionally diverse communities. Provide community based information in an open forum of regional issues between all relevant entities and facilitate program designs or adaptations to existing projects. Assist in professional organizations implementation of regional management actions.

This outreach paper is partially an Anthropological discussion. The aim is to understand the culture and society in their association with the physical environment. Although historical references are discussed here, our goals are to identify what behaviors exist rather than determine exactly how they came to be as they are. 

This program is designed to be adaptable to various regions and cultures. It is not a large initiative based program rather a focused data collecting design to efficiently understand remote regions issues as they pertain to conservation.

Resources described in this paper are used for information gathering in accordance to our mission and the objective in the country and regions of interest. We desire credible and quantifiable data.

Requests for the paper can be made at tony@seaofcompanions.org