tailieunhanh - COMING OUT OF THE FOODSHED: CHANGE AND INNOVATION IN RURAL ALASKAN FOOD SYSTEMS

This thesis is a combined volume containing three individual research papers, each written for submission to a different peer-reviewed journal. Each to some extent investigates community resiliency and vulnerability as they manifest in the past and present of Alaska Native foodways. The first paper, ‘Outpost Gardening in Interior Alaska’ examines the historical dimensions of cropping by Athabascan peoples as a part of local food system development and innovation; the second introduces the ‘Servicesoriented Architecture’ as a framework for describing ecosystem services,. | COMING OUT OF THE FOODSHED CHANGE AND INNOVATION IN RURAL ALASKAN FOOD SYSTEMS A THESIS Presented to the Faculty of the University of Alaska Fairbanks in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTERS OF ARTS By Philip A Loring . Fairbanks Alaska May 2007 I I SOME RIGHTS RESERVED This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License See Appendix A for Information iii ABSTRACT This thesis is a combined volume containing three individual research papers each written for submission to a different peer-reviewedjournal. Each to some extent investigates community resiliency and vulnerability as they manifest in the past and present of Alaska Native foodways. The first paper Outpost Gardening in Interior Alaska examines the historical dimensions of cropping by Athabascan peoples as a part of local food system development and innovation the second introduces the Services-oriented Architecture as a framework for describing ecosystem services with the rural Alaskan model as an example the third from which the title of this thesis was taken presents the process and outcomes of contemporary food system change for the Athabascan village of Minto AK as they come out of their foodshed . The three of these papers together introduce a language and a set of frameworks for considering local food systems within a context of development and global change that are applicable throughout Alaska and indeed to cases world-wide. iv TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Signature Page__i Title Page__ii ABSTRACTiii TABLE OF CONTENTS_iv LIST OF FIGURES_viii LIST OF TABLES_ix LIST OF OTHER MATERIALS__x LIST OF .