Download or read book Environmental Impact Assessment Under the Western Arctic Inuvialuit land Claim written by Nelson Green and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Impact Assessment Under the Western Arctic Inuvialuit Land Claim written by Nelson Green and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effects of Native Land Claims on Public Participation in Environmental Impact Assessment in the Canadian North written by Trevor M. Swerdfager and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper identifies and evaluates the effects of the Western Arctic Inuvialuit Final Agreement on public participation in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in the Mackenzie Delta/Beaufort Sea region. Following a literature review, 11 recurring themes in EIA were identified. Information was gathered on the historical background of these themes, the current status of northern EIA and land claims, and specifically on the Agreement and various corporate entities that set it up. The report discusses the scope, purpose, objectives, and methods of public participation in EIA; public participation in northern EIA to date, particularly the federal Environmental Assessment and Review Process and the National Energy Board certificate issuance process; native land claims, particularly the legal and historical antecedents of the land claims movement; and public participation in the Inuvialuit EIA process.
Download or read book EFFECTS OF NATIVE LAND CLAIMS ON PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT IN THE CANADIAN NORTH microfiche written by Canadian Environmental Assessment Research Council and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment in the European Union written by Simon Marsden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines 'The Espoo Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context', which celebrates the twentieth anniversary of its adoption in 2011, and its 'Kiev Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment' which came into force in July 2010. In addition to contributing to international environmental law, the Convention has prompted significant changes to European environmental law. The chapters in this collection explain the role of transboundary environmental impact assessment in international and European law, and explore the relationship between international and European law in the context of potential application of the Convention. They also examine examples of the Convention in practice, and consider the potential application of the Protocol. While the focus of the book is on the situation in the European Union, reference is made to the relationship between EU and non-EU member states, notably in connection with important cases in the Arctic, the Danube Delta and the Baltic Sea.
Download or read book Environmental Impact Assessment written by Kevin Stuart Hanna and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through twenty-one chapters that examine current debates, recent cases, and ongoing developments in Canadian EIA, Environmental Impact Assessment reflects the diversity of issues EIA processes now address.
Download or read book Environmental Impact Assessment in the Arctic written by Timo Koivurova and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-27 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Significant growth in economic activity in the Arctic has added weight to the argument that projects must be developed responsibly and sustainably. Addressing growing concerns regarding the exploitation of the Arctic's natural resources, this timely book presents and evaluates examples of best practice in Arctic environmental impact assessment. Timo Koivurova and Pamela Lesser succinctly synthesise primary data gathered from interviews with local communities, indigenous peoples, NGOs, government officials and businesses in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Greenland, Iceland, Canada, Russia and the USA. Considering all stakeholder perspectives, they present the regulatory processes of all eight Arctic countries, and also provide helpful flowcharts that depict the process graphically for each country. Measuring these practices against the 1997 Guidelines for Environmental Impact Assessment in the Arctic, the only Arctic environmental impact assessment guidance document that has been officially approved by the ministers of all eight Arctic countries, this book identifies key areas where adherence to best practice is high, such as stakeholder outreach and development, as well as those areas that fall short. Thorough and accessible, Environmental Impact Assessment in the Arctic will provide an excellent reference for academics in the fields of law and environmental studies as well as for government officials and stakeholders who stand to benefit from best practice.
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 Challenge of Arctic Shipping written by David L. Vander-Zwaag and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1990-03-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Challenge of Arctic Shipping presents a collection of candid essays on the future of Arctic waters. A number of distinguished contributors address critical issues in Arctic development examining the implications for both policy-making in the North and the impact of that policy on native people. The intricacies of decision-making in an atmosphere of uncertainty are explored in detail, as is the impact of access to information, influence, and power. The Challenge of Arctic Shipping also examines activities and events associated with commercial proposals to develop and transport hydrocarbons through environmentally sensitive waters. The editors observe that the resulting political maneuvering is evidence that new approaches to this and other problems of the North are needed.
Download or read book Arctic Climate Impact Assessment Scientific Report written by Arctic Climate Impact Assessment and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-07 with total page 1053 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arctic is now experiencing some of the most rapid and severe climate change on earth. Over the next 100 years, climate change is expected to accelerate, contributing to major physical, ecological, social, and economic changes, many of which have already begun. Changes in arctic climate will also affect the rest of the world through increased global warming and rising sea levels. Arctic Climate Impact Assessment was prepared by an international team of over 300 scientists, experts, and knowledgeable members of indigenous communities. The report has been thoroughly researched, is fully referenced, and provides the first comprehensive evaluation of arctic climate change, changes in ultraviolet radiation and their impacts for the region and for the world. It is illustrated in full color throughout. The results provided the scientific foundations for the ACIA synthesis report - Impacts of a Warming Arctic - published by Cambridge University Press in 2004.
Download or read book Breaking the Ice written by Barry Scott Zellen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 454 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 The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development written by Sumudu A. Atapattu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 825 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the global endorsement of the Sustainable Development Goals, environmental justice struggles are growing all over the world. These struggles are not isolated injustices, but symptoms of interlocking forms of oppression that privilege the few while inflicting misery on the many and threatening ecological collapse. This handbook offers critical perspectives on the multi-dimensional, intersectional nature of environmental injustice and the cross-cutting forms of oppression that unite and divide these struggles, including gender, race, poverty, and indigeneity. The work sheds new light on the often-neglected social dimension of sustainability and its relationship to human rights and environmental justice. Using a variety of legal frameworks and case studies from around the world, this volume illustrates the importance of overcoming the fragmentation of these legal frameworks and social movements in order to develop holistic solutions that promote justice and protect the planet's ecosystems at a time of intensifying economic and ecological crisis.
Download or read book Unfreezing the Arctic written by Andrew Stuhl and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of a region transformed—and threatened—offers “a timely historical reflection on the important social role of science and scientists.”—Historical Geography In recent years, environmentalists have pointed urgently to the melting Arctic as a leading indicator of climate change. While climate change has unleashed profound transformations in the region, many commentators mislabel them as unprecedented. In reality, the landscapes of the North American Arctic—as well as relations among scientists, Inuit, and federal governments— are products of the region’s colonial past. And even as policy analysts, activists, and scholars clamor about the future of our world’s northern rim, few truly understand its past. In Unfreezing the Arctic, Andrew Stuhl brings a fresh perspective to this defining challenge of our time. Stuhl weaves together a wealth of episodes into a transnational history of the North American Arctic, providing a richer understanding of its social and environmental transformation. Drawing on historical records and extensive ethnographic fieldwork, as well as time spent living in the Northwest Territories, he examines the long-running interplay of scientific exploration, colonial control, the experiences of Inuit residents, and multinational investments in natural resources. With a comprehensive look at a century of scientific activity, he covers the political, economic, environmental, and social history of this transboundary region. “A worthy addition to the recent wave of work on northern history…Bridging the histories of colonialism, resource management, military activity, and Indigenous self-determination, Stuhl focuses on Alaska and northwest Canada, including the Beaufort Sea, Mackenzie Delta, and surrounding region.”—Canadian Journal of History The author intends to donate all royalties from this book to the Alaska Youth for Environmental Action (AYEA) and East Three School's On the Land Program.
Download or read book Environmental Impact Assessment in the Arctic written by Timo Koivurova and published by Dartmouth Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the norms of international law that apply to the planning stage of large-scale activities such as hydrocarbon exploitation, mineral extraction and forestry. These stationary activities (those that remain at a single location for a period of time), pose grave risks to the Arctic environment, since the development of technology has made it profitable to exploit natural resources even in such harsh regions.
Download or read book Shipping in Inuit Nunangat written by Kristin Bartenstein and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shipping in Inuit Nunangat is a timely multidisciplinary volume offering novel insights into key maritime governance issues in Canadian Arctic waters that are Inuit homeland (Inuit Nunangat) in the contemporary context of climate change, growing accessibility of Arctic waters to shipping, the need to protect a highly sensitive environment, and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The volume includes policy, legal and institutional findings and recommendations intended to inform scholars and policymakers on managing the interface between shipping, the marine environment, and Indigenous rights in Arctic waters.
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 Traditional Knowledge Guide for the Inuvialuit Settlement Region Northwest Territories Literature review and evaluation written by Sherri Labour and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
