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Browsing by Subject "Stewardship"

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    Exploring American and Chinese Urban Youth's Value Orientations toward Human-Nature Relationship
    (2011) Li, Jie
    Most anthropologists agree that the relationship of a society to its environment is the first and most important challenge to a culture (Chemers & Altman, 1977). What are American and Chinese urban youths’ value orientations toward the human-nature relationship? What are potential differences and similarities among their value orientations that might be useful in future research regarding culture and value orientation toward the human-nature relationship? These two questions guided the research. A self-developed human-nature relationship instrument was administered to American (n=59) and Chinese urban youths (n=51) who live in Minneapolis, the U.S. and Guangzhou, China. The dominant value orientation was examined and the qualitative data analysis provides five typologies of how urban youths’ make sense of the human-nature relationship: 1) Submission; 2) Interdependence; 3) Stewardship; 4) Use; 5) Dominion. While a comparison of the qualitative result suggests Chinese and American youths have different value orientations toward human-nature relationship (interdependence in Chinese youth and stewardship in American youth), the quantitative findings suggest similar value orientation, harmony with nature. This, however, is consisting of qualitative findings as both stewardship and interdependence seem to fit with the “harmony with nature” value orientation. Recommendations for future research are discussed and the implications to environmental education are explored.
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    First We Must Consider Manoomin/Psiŋ: Impacts of Climate and Land Cover Change on Wild Rice
    (2023) Nyblade, Madeline
    In the upper Laurentian Great Lakes region, Indigenous communities have experienced declines of wild rice (Ojibwemowin: Manoomin; Dakodiapi: Psiŋ; Latin: Zizania palustris), a sacred aquatic plant and food central to their culture. Through tribal-university collaboration, we analyzed Manoomin/Psiŋ density and harvest data along with case studies to show Manoomin/Psiŋ available for tribal harvest has declined regionally by 6±4% to 7±2% per year, complicated by local multi-year cycles and relationships. Our analysis of this data in relation to key environmental conditions reveals both climate and land cover change as drivers of this decline. Increasing precipitation during early summer, as well as decreasing winter temperatures, snowfall, and lake ice, with the changing climate all negatively impact Manoomin/Psiŋ density. Land cover change with U.S. colonization causes harm as well: the resulting increased croplands, pastures, and urban areas, as well as the shifting forest types, all negatively impact Manoomin/Psiŋ. This decline has infringed on Indigenous lifeways by reducing off-reservation harvest by Indigenous people, a right guaranteed by treaties with the US government. Since time immemorial, Indigenous nations have been taking care of Manoomin/Psiŋ, charting a course of Manoomin/Psiŋ stewardship that can be followed to protect this important being in the face of threats from climate and land cover change.
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    In God Do We Trust? an analysis of trust reformation in a Catholic Parish
    (2013-12) Reandeau, Dawna Carling
    In my research, I examined two avenues of trust; trust in the organization and trust in God. In an effort to revitalize a Catholic parish, a model of total stewardship was introduced. The purpose was to bring parishioners to an awareness of God's generosity. This reformation consolidated financial collection efforts exclusively to the Sunday offering, including financial support for the parochial school which had previously collected tuition payments. I analyzed the response of the school parents from surveys with respect to the changes in tuition charging and the high level of trust extended to them. Network analysis was used to gauge aspects of organizational trust. The survey asked parents about whom they get information about parish matters. The process of the trust negotiation from the perspective of the administration was captured with interviews of a few key parish administrators. One of the key findings was that as ministry participation increased; trust in the school administration decreased. Since most ministries were parish based, information in parish ministries reinforced and circulated negative information about the school. The second aspect of the research was trust in God. I hypothesized that a stronger religious belief or trust in God would create a stronger behavioral response and school parents would more likely embrace the stewardship model. Questions on the survey regarding four religious belief and four religious behaviors combined together to create a scale to measure religiosity or trust in God. I worked under the assumption that a deep faith transforms our behavior, or as it is said in Roman Catholic tradition, Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi, Lex Vivendi, and this would translate to greater stewardship commitment. The indicators used to measure religiosity showed some strong levels of commitment and trust in God. This trust in God did not directly show a correspondence of trust in either the school or parish administration. Only when the parents had a trust in the parish administration did their trust in God manifest in greater giving.
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    Who Wants To Be A Woodland Steward? Understanding Barriers to Forestland Stewardship in Minnesota
    (University of Minnesota Department of Forest Resources, 2022-06) O'Connor, Molly C.; Russell, Matthew B.; Gupta, Angela S.; Blinn, Charles R.
    A third of the nation’s forestland is owned and stewarded by family forest owners (Butler et al. 2021). These private landowners (woodland stewards) value them primarily due to the beauty, natural values, and wildlife habitat they provide. In Minnesota, 102,000 woodland stewards own and manage over five million acres of forestland in the state (USDA Forest Service, 2021). While private forestland in Minnesota is diverse in terms of the composition and characteristics of the forest, the demographics of woodland stewards are not. The objectives of this project were to (1) interview Minnesota residents that have been historically excluded from owning forestland within the State to understand their motivations and barriers to stewarding, purchasing, owning, and managing land and (2) build Extension’s repertoire of woodland steward resources that are more culturally-relevant.