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10 - Indigenous Peoples and Water Governance in Canada
- from Part III - Exclusion and Struggles for Co-Decision
- Edited by Rutgerd Boelens, Wageningen Universiteit, The Netherlands, Tom Perreault, Syracuse University, New York, Jeroen Vos, Wageningen Universiteit, The Netherlands
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- Water Justice
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- 26 February 2018
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- 15 March 2018, pp 193-209
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Summary
High rates of resource extraction in northern and western Canada are creating intense socio- environmental pressures on indigenous peoples’ traditional territories. Fresh water systems are particularly affected by mining, oil and gas extraction, and forestry. This, in turn, has significant impacts on indigenous communities, including compromised access to safe drinking water, threats to environmental water quality, and related livelihood and health issues. This chapter documents and analyses several clear instances of regulatory injustice within Canada’s colonial water governance framework. The authors first provide an overview of the legal and regulatory architecture of environmental and water governance in Canada, with specific examples of the disjuncture between colonial (Western) law and indigenous water laws. Next, the chapter presents examples of regulatory injustice in the province of British Columbia: the FITFIR (First in Time, First in Right) water rights regime; and the hydropower development consultation regime. The authors then explore current responses, focusing on the potential for indigenous water co-governance—concluding with some concrete suggestions for reform.
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- By Tod C. Aeby, Melanie D. Altizer, Ronan A. Bakker, Meghann E. Batten, Anita K. Blanchard, Brian Bond, Megan A. Brady, Saweda A. Bright, Ellen L. Brock, Amy Brown, Ashley Carroll, Jori S. Carter, Frances Casey, Weldon Chafe, David Chelmow, Jessica M. Ciaburri, Stephen A. Cohen, Adrianne M. Colton, PonJola Coney, Jennifer A. Cross, Julie Zemaitis DeCesare, Layson L. Denney, Megan L. Evans, Nicole S. Fanning, Tanaz R. Ferzandi, Katie P. Friday, Nancy D. Gaba, Rajiv B. Gala, Andrew Galffy, Adrienne L. Gentry, Edward J. Gill, Philippe Girerd, Meredith Gray, Amy Hempel, Audra Jolyn Hill, Chris J. Hong, Kathryn A. Houston, Patricia S. Huguelet, Warner K. Huh, Jordan Hylton, Christine R. Isaacs, Alison F. Jacoby, Isaiah M. Johnson, Nicole W. Karjane, Emily E. Landers, Susan M. Lanni, Eduardo Lara-Torre, Lee A. Learman, Nikola Alexander Letham, Rachel K. Love, Richard Scott Lucidi, Elisabeth McGaw, Kimberly Woods McMorrow, Christopher A. Manipula, Kirk J. Matthews, Michelle Meglin, Megan Metcalf, Sarah H. Milton, Gaby Moawad, Christopher Morosky, Lindsay H. Morrell, Elizabeth L. Munter, Erin L. Murata, Amanda B. Murchison, Nguyet A. Nguyen, Nan G. O’Connell, Tony Ogburn, K. Nathan Parthasarathy, Thomas C. Peng, Ashley Peterson, Sarah Peterson, John G. Pierce, Amber Price, Heidi J. Purcell, Ronald M. Ramus, Nicole Calloway Rankins, Fidelma B. Rigby, Amanda H. Ritter, Barbara L. Robinson, Danielle Roncari, Lisa Rubinsak, Jennifer Salcedo, Mary T. Sale, Peter F. Schnatz, John W. Seeds, Kathryn Shaia, Karen Shelton, Megan M. Shine, Haller J. Smith, Roger P. Smith, Nancy A. Sokkary, Reni A. Soon, Aparna Sridhar, Lilja Stefansson, Laurie S. Swaim, Chemen M. Tate, Hong-Thao Thieu, Meredith S. Thomas, L. Chesney Thompson, Tiffany Tonismae, Angela M. Tran, Breanna Walker, Alan G. Waxman, C. Nathan Webb, Valerie L. Williams, Sarah B. Wilson, Elizabeth M. Yoselevsky, Amy E. Young
- Edited by David Chelmow, Virginia Commonwealth University, Christine R. Isaacs, Virginia Commonwealth University, Ashley Carroll, Virginia Commonwealth University
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- Acute Care and Emergency Gynecology
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- 05 November 2014
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- 30 October 2014, pp ix-xiv
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9 - Expert stakeholder participation in the Thames region
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- By Thomas E. Downing, Director UK Climate Impacts Programme; Chair International Geographical Union's Commission on Vulnerable Food Systems, Karen Bakker, Research Fellow Water and Environmental Management at Jesus College and Oxford Centre for Water Research at the University of Oxford, Kate Lonsdale, Works on vulnerability and stakeholder participation issues Stockholm Environment Institute (Oxford office); Active Member Local Agenda 21 team of Oxford City Council, Neil Summerton, Fellow Mansfield College; Director Oxford Centre for Water Research in the Environmental Change Institute in the School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University, Erik Swyngedouw, University Reader in Geography and Fellow St. Peter's College, Oxford University, Consuelo Giansante, Consultant Water and Natural Resources Management; Research Assistant University College London and the University of Seville
- Edited by Bernd Kasemir, Harvard University, Massachusetts, Jill Jäger, International Human Dimensions Programme, Bonn, Carlo C. Jaeger, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Matthew T. Gardner, Biogen Inc.
- Foreword by William C. Clark, Harvard University, Massachusetts, Alexander Wokaun, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland
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- Public Participation in Sustainability Science
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- 22 September 2009
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- 10 April 2003, pp 187-200
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Introduction
Social and institutional adaptation to climate change impacts must take account of present coping ability and how stakeholders and institutions are likely to evolve over the next few decades. Motivating effective adaptation requires participation; sustainability science in general, and integrated assessments in particular, must blend the formalisms of models with knowledge of institutional change. The ULYSSES project pioneered methods of public participation in integrated environmental assessment, with a focus on climate change and urban greenhouse gas emissions. Citizen Integrated Assessment (IA) Focus Groups were developed and tested in seven cities in Europe. Furthermore, a stakeholder dialogue was conducted with sub-sets of experts, concerning venture capital investment and climate policy.
This chapter relates the experiences of the Social and Institutional Responses to Climatic Change and Climatic Hazards (SIRCH) project to these earlier experiences. The SIRCH project benefited from the examples set by the ULYSSES team. The following section summarizes our stakeholder analysis, using drought management in the Thames region as an example. An outline of scenarios of future drought risk and the analytical methods being developed illustrates the relevance of the research discussed in the first two parts of the present volume to our analyses.
The SIRCH project evaluated capacity to adapt to climate change, and the adaptive processes likely to be employed by stakeholders. The project includes case studies of climatic hazards in southern England (drought and flood), The Netherlands (flood), and southern Spain (drought).