Download or read book Environmental Asssessment and Aboriginal Land Claims written by Maureen G. Reed and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Estimates written by Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Aboriginal Consultation Environmental Assessment and Regulatory Review in Canada written by Kirk N. Lambrecht and published by University of Regina Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supreme Court of Canada decisions have defined a general framework for the "duty to consult" Aboriginal peoples and accommodate their concerns over natural resource development, but anticipate the details of that framework will be expanded upon in the future. Aboriginal Consultation, Environmental Assessment, and Regulatory Review in Canada offers a paradigm that advances that discussion. It proposes an integrated and robust planning model for natural resource extraction allowing Aboriginal peoples, industry, governments, tribunals, and the Courts to all make contributions to reconciliation in the context of sustainable development and environmental protection. Kirk Lambrecht surveys the law of actual and asserted Aboriginal rights and historical and modern Treaty rights in Canada and discusses the national and international purposes of environmental assessment and regulatory review. He appraises the fundamental principles of Supreme Court of Canada jurisprudence defining aboriginal consultation and accommodation as a constitutional imperative and uses case studies involving the National Energy Board to demonstrate how integrated process has evolved over time. Finally he offers general conclusions on the practical utility, and outstanding challenges, involving an integrated planning paradigm.

Download or read book Implementing the Environmental Assessment Provisions of a Comprehensive Aboriginal Land Rights Settlement written by Gary William Wagner and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Environmental Impact Assessment Guidelines written by Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Preamble: In the late 1980s, the negotiators for the Dene/Métis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement-in-Principle wanted aboriginal people to become partners with the territorial and federal governments in managing the land and water resources of the Northwest Territories. They proposed such a partnership in the form of a network of co-management boards that would oversee and guide resource development in the Mackenzie Valley. Each aboriginal land-claim organization and the territorial and federal governments would nominate an equal number of people to serve on each co-management board. In 1990, Dene and Métis leadership rejected the Dene/Métis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement-in- Principle. Instead of one claim for the NWT, the Dene and Métis organizations decided to negotiate individual claims for each region. Despite this shift in strategy, the idea of a co-management network remained on the new regional negotiation tables. Consequently, the 1992 Gwich'in Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement, the 1994 Sahtu Dene and Métis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement, and the 2005 Tlicho Land Claim and Self Government Agreement, adhere to the co-management principle. Implementing those regional land claims and making the idea of co-management a reality required new federal legislation. In 1998, the Parliament of Canada approved the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act (MVRMA or the Act). The MVRMA applies in the Mackenzie Valley. The Act established a network of co-management boards. Each board has a specific mandate for managing resources in the Mackenzie Valley. These boards allow Mackenzie Valley residents and communities to participate in managing the region's land and water resources. Sections 1.4 to 1.7 of this document explain the roles of the co-management boards in the Mackenzie Valley. According to the Act, the Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board (Review Board) is responsible for environmental impact assessment (EIA) in the Mackenzie Valley. EIA is a process that includes preliminary screening, environmental assessment and environmental impact review. The Review Board develops guidelines to explain how the EIA process works and how people can participate. To date, the Review Board has developed and approved three sets of guidelines. ... 1.2 About this Overview Document: This "Overview of the EIA Guidelines" (Overview) is a companion to the more detailed EIA Guidelines [described in ASTIS record 61292]. The Overview is a summary of the EIA process described extensively in the EIA Guidelines. The numbering system of the Overview corresponds with the numbering system of the EIA Guidelines. If you are interested in a specific section of the Overview, you can find more information under the same heading in the EIA Guidelines. Certain environmental impact assessments may not include every step outlined in the EIA Guidelines. Further, the order of each step can change depending on the assessment. The Review Board plans and conducts each environmental assessment and environmental impact review in a manner appropriate to the scope of the proposed development, the scale of the issues, and the information required to complete an EIA in accordance with the MVRMA"--Pages 1-2.

Download or read book First Nations the Environment and Development written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Indigenous Empowerment through Co management written by Graham White and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-management boards, established under comprehensive land claims agreements with Indigenous peoples, have become key players in land-use planning, wildlife management, and environmental regulation across Canada’s North. This book provides a detailed account of the operation and effectiveness of these new forms of federalism in order to address a central question: Have co-management boards been successful in ensuring substantial Indigenous involvement in policies affecting the land and wildlife in their traditional territories? Graham White tackles this question, drawing on decades of research and writing about the politics of Northern Canada. He begins with an overview of the boards, examining their legal foundations, structure and membership, decision-making processes, and independence from government. He then presents case studies of several important boards. While White identifies constraints on the role Northern Indigenous peoples play in board processes, he finds that overall they exercise extensive decision-making influence. These findings are provocative and offer valuable insights into our understanding of the importance of land claims boards and the role they play in the evolution of treaty federalism in Canada.

Download or read book Environmental Assessment and Aboriginal Claims written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This essay explores new environmental impact screening procedures as they apply in the Northwest Territories. The research suggests that the goals of environmental protection are shared between environmental activists and native rights advocates. However, an historical review of government development policy in the North and an exploration of aboriginal claims reveals that native people have historically been excluded from direct involvement in the decision-making procedures that involve allocation of property, resource use, and land management. Native people consider their participation in land and resource-use management decisions as a cornerstone to elements of their rights'--Abstract.

Download or read book Breaking the Ice written by Barry Zellen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008-03-20 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking the Ice is a comparative study of the movement for native land claims and indigenous rights in Alaska and the Western Arctic, and the resulting transformation in domestic politics as the indigenous peoples of the North gained an increasingly prominent role in the governance of their homeland. This work is based on field research conducted by the author during his nine-year residency in the Western Arctic. Zellen discusses the major conflicts facing Alaskan Natives, from the struggle to regain control over their land claims to the Native alienation from the corporate structure and culture and the resulting resurgence in tribalism. He shows that while the forces of modernism and traditionalism continued to clash, these conflicts were mediated by the structures of co-management, corporate development, and self-government created by the region's comprehensive land claims settlements. Breaking the Ice gives testimony to the achievements of Alaskan Natives through peaceful negotiation, and argues that the age of land claims has transmuted this same tribal force into something else altogether in the North: a peaceful force to spawn the emergence of new structures of Aboriginal self-governance.

Download or read book Rethinking Resource Management written by Richard Howitt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers students and practitioners a sophisticated and convincing framework for rethinking the usual approaches to resource management. It uses case studies to argue that professional resource managers do not take responsibility for the social and environmental consequences of their decisions on the often vulnerable indigenous communities they affect. It also discusses the invisibility of indigenous people' values and knowledge within traditional resource management. It offers a new approach to social impact assessment methods which are more participatory and empowering. The book employs a range of case studies from Australia, North America and Norway.

Download or read book Disposition of Natural Resources written by Canadian Institute of Resources Law and published by Calgary : Canadian Institute of Resources Law = Institut canadien du droit des ressources. This book was released on 1997 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Aboriginal Land Planning in Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This report is the product of a partnership between GEIGER (Group of Interdisciplinary Studies in Geography and Regional Environment) and the Atikamekw Nation. It suggests implementing an environmental assessment system to foster meaningful Aboriginal participation in federal and provincial environmental assessment procedures. The system involves a preliminary planning procedure for land belonging to this Nation or other Aboriginals. This step allows them to establish themselves as well as their economic, social, cultural and environmental goals. A direct result of the planning process, the environmental assessment tools developed represent a practical solution for decision-making (with regards to a project, plan or program) when: stakeholders claim their rightful place; debating the true issues; appropriate (advisory and decision-making) mechanisms are put into place. In order to model the current federal and provincial systems after the one developed by the Aboriginal nations, adaptive co-management represents the method of choice. By establishing a relationship between stakeholders, the system aids in balancing the use of scientific and Aboriginal knowledge. Following a Strengths-Weaknesses-Opportunities-Threats analysis of the data collected in the field and those extracted from literature, we have made additional recommendations, including indigenous planning, balancing knowledge and possible linkages regarding certain legal aspects"--Page iii.

Download or read book Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic written by Chris Southcott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past thirty years we have witnessed a demand for resources such as minerals, oil, and gas, which is only set to increase. This book examines the relationship between Arctic communities and extractive resource development. With insights from leading thinkers in the field, the book examines this relationship to better understand what, if anything, can be done in order for the development of non-renewable resources to be of benefit to the long-term sustainability of these communities. The contributions synthesize circumpolar research on the topic of resource extraction in the Arctic, and highlight areas that need further investigation, such as the ability of northern communities to properly use current regulatory processes, fiscal arrangements, and benefit agreements to ensure the long-term sustainability of their culture communities and to avoid a new path dependency This book provides an insightful summary of issues surrounding resource extraction in the Arctic, and will be essential reading for anyone interested in environmental impact assessments, globalization and Indigenous communities, and the future of the Arctic region.

Download or read book Mining the Environment and Indigenous Development Conflicts written by Saleem H. Ali and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From sun-baked Black Mesa to the icy coast of Labrador, native lands for decades have endured mining ventures that have only lately been subject to environmental laws and a recognition of treaty rights. Yet conflicts surrounding mining development and indigenous peoples continue to challenge policy-makers. This book gets to the heart of resource conflicts and environmental impact assessment by asking why indigenous communities support environmental causes in some cases of mining development but not in others. Saleem Ali examines environmental conflicts between mining companies and indigenous communities and with rare objectivity offers a comparative study of the factors leading to those conflicts. Mining, the Environment, and Indigenous Development Conflicts presents four cases from the United States and Canada: the Navajos and Hopis with Peabody Coal in Arizona; the Chippewas with the Crandon Mine proposal in Wisconsin; the Chipewyan Inuits, DŽnŽ and Cree with Cameco in Saskatchewan; and the Innu and Inuits with Inco in Labrador. These cases exemplify different historical relationships with government and industry and provide an instance of high and low levels of Native resistance in each country. Through these cases, Ali analyzes why and under what circumstances tribes agree to negotiated mining agreements on their lands, and why some negotiations are successful and others not. Ali challenges conventional theories of conflict based on economic or environmental cost-benefit analysis, which do not fully capture the dynamics of resistance. He proposes that the underlying issue has less to do with environmental concerns than with sovereignty, which often complicates relationships between tribes and environmental organizations. Activist groups, he observes, fail to understand such tribal concerns and often have problems working with tribes on issues where they may presume a common environmental interest. This book goes beyond popular perceptions of environmentalism to provide a detailed picture of how and when the concerns of industry, society, and tribal governments may converge and when they conflict. As demands for domestic energy exploration increase, it offers clear guidance for such endeavors when native lands are involved.

Download or read book NWT Diamonds Project written by NWT Diamonds Project Environmental Assessment Panel (Canada) and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The NWT Diamonds Project has been organized to explore and develop claims in the Lac de Gras area, approximately 300 km northeast of Yellowknife. The joint venture partners BHP Diamonds Inc. and the Blackwater Group are establishing Canada's first diamond mine. This report is the final step in the environmental review process and provides the panel's findings, conclusions and recommendations to the Ministers of the Environment and of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.

Download or read book Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment written by Bram F. Noble and published by Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been designed as a primary teaching text in environmental impact assessment (EIA). It focuses on procedural training, with an emphasis on good principles and practice and provides a number of case studies from all over the globe.

Download or read book Indigenous Peoples the Environment and Law written by Lawrence Watters and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a rich perspective on the intersection of indigenous peoples and the law, particularly within environmental law and international environmental law, emphasizing themes that are increasingly prominent on the agenda of the international community. In the anthology, twenty-three articles are collected that address significant conflicts with an interdisciplinary vantage point, where the interests of indigenous peoples and environmental law are closely intertwined. It analyses biodiversity, traditional knowledge, the responsibility of multinational corporations, and restitution. Sixteen of the selections provide a comparative perspective on the conflicts and issues involving indigenous peoples arising in specific countries. From the fragile environment of the Arctic, to sacred sites and water in the United States, the diversity of indigenous peoples is explored within the context of governance, natural resources and conflict resolution. From native Hawaiians to the Sami of Scandinavia, selected themes parallel and contrast with one another in concert with the quest for survival in Bolivia, Guatemala, the Philippines and Russia. At the same time, the relationship of indigenous peoples to nature and the struggle for identity are common themes in virtually all of the selections. Case studies, drawing on anthropology and history, in addition to law, combined with several more conceptual contributions, provide a mosaic that places indigenous peoples in both a comparative and international context. In addition, Watters includes several articles that explore trends in convergence and globalization, which have especially important ramifications for indigenous peoples. "Each article stands on its own as a significant scholarly contribution and the diversity of authors necessarily lends a unique flavor and perspective to the subject... almost all of the selections are recent and therefore timely... [T]hey are drawn from an excellent group of journals that remain in the forefront in scholarship" -- Brian Myers, Georgetown International Environmental Law Review "Indigenous People, the Environment and Law...provides an invaluable onestop resource for seasoned scholars seeking a holistic look at this important topic and for relative newcomers to the subject seeking a broad introduction... an important contribution to the scholarly field at a crucial time" -- Sean T. McAllister, UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy Printable Quick Facts Sheet & Summary Table of Contents