Morice Land and Resource Management Plan
Opportunity Identification
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Opportunity IdentificationMembers of the Working Group categorized opportunities into seven economic sectors; agriculture, commercial fishery, forestry, land development and infrastructure, non-timber forest products, tourism and minerals, oil, gas and energy. Within each sector the Working Group identified a number of economic development opportunities. A number of opportunities could have been identified in more than one sector. For example, cogeneration, while categorized in the forest sector, could have also been categorized in the minerals, oil, gas and energy sector. The rationale used to decide where an opportunity would be categorized was based on the resources required to make that opportunity viable. In the case of this example wood waste was the resource required to operate a cogeneration facility. As such it was categorized in the forestry sector. Each opportunity was then explored for its relationship to the LMRP process. Specifically, could the LMRP influence the development of an opportunity through land use zoning or management direction? If an opportunity passed this screening it was ranked against the rest of the opportunities in that sector. Ranking of Sector OpportunitiesEvery opportunity was ranked according to the criteria. Members of the Working Group independently assigned values to each opportunity for all categories/sub-categories. The maximum total value an opportunity could receive was 36. The summed ratings for each opportunity were averaged and rounded to the nearest whole number. The results of the rankings for each sector are presented at the beginning of the opportunity analysis sections further on in this report. Following the ranking exercise a couple of observations were made. First, the use of a static set of income (amount earned) criteria was found not to be useful for ranking opportunities within certain sectors. It was, however, useful for differentiating the average income levels between sectors. Second, employment ranges were dramatically different between a number of sectors. In order to provide a useful indicator of priority an employment chart was used. Table 3 identifies low, medium and high levels of employment within each sector. These estimates were very useful during the ranking process. Table 3. Rating system for number of employees by sector
Source: BCSTATS, Infoline Report October 4, 2002 Download 1.06 Mb. Share with your friends:
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