ISBN: 9780774828451 - Where the Rivers Meet: Pipelines, Participatory Resource Management, and Aboriginal-state Relations in the Northwest Territories (nature | History | Society) (15 results)

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Hardback. Condition: New. Oil and gas companies now recognize that industrial projects in the Canadian North can only succeed if Aboriginal communities are involved in decision-making processes. Are Aboriginal concerns appropriately addressed through current consultation and participatory processes?Where the Rivers Meet is an ethnographic account of Sahtu Dene involvement in the environmental assessment of the Mackenzie Gas Project, a massive pipeline that, if completed, would have unprecedented effects on Aboriginal communities in the North.Carly A. Dokis reveals that while there has been some progress in establishing avenues for Dene participation in decision making, the structure of participatory and consultation processes fails to meet the expectations of local people by requiring them to participate in ways that are incommensurable with their experiential knowledge and understandings of the environment. Ultimately, Dokis finds that the evaluation of such projects remains rooted in non-local beliefs about the nature of the environment, the commodification of land, and the inevitability of a hydrocarbon-based economy.…

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Condition: New. An examination of Sahtu Dene participation in the assessment of the Mackenzie Gas pipeline and other resource extraction projects, this book provides an in-depth account of the workings and effects of participatory environmental assessment in the Canadian North and its implications for the legitimization of resource co-management. Series: Nature / History / Society Series. Num Pages: 480 pages, 6 b&w photos, 2 maps, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1MBF; JFSL9; RNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 825. . 2015. Hardback. . . . .…

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Condition: New. An examination of Sahtu Dene participation in the assessment of the Mackenzie Gas pipeline and other resource extraction projects, this book provides an in-depth account of the workings and effects of participatory environmental assessment in the Canadian North and its implications for the legitimization of resource co-management. Series: Nature / History / Society Series. Num Pages: 480 pages, 6 b&w photos, 2 maps, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1MBF; JFSL9; RNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 825. . 2015. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Carly A. Dokis is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Nipissing University. Her research interests include political ecology, anthropology of development, collaborative research methodologies, and the ethnology of northern Canada. She has worked with communities in northern Ontario and the Northwest Territories with a broad focus on the social, economic, and political consequences of participatory environmental management. …

Hardback. Condition: New. Oil and gas companies now recognize that industrial projects in the Canadian North can only succeed if Aboriginal communities are involved in decision-making processes. Are Aboriginal concerns appropriately addressed through current consultation and participatory processes?Where the Rivers Meet is an ethnographic account of Sahtu Dene involvement in the environmental assessment of the Mackenzie Gas Project, a massive pipeline that, if completed, would have unprecedented effects on Aboriginal communities in the North.Carly A. Dokis reveals that while there has been some progress in establishing avenues for Dene participation in decision making, the structure of participatory and consultation processes fails to meet the expectations of local people by requiring them to participate in ways that are incommensurable with their experiential knowledge and understandings of the environment. Ultimately, Dokis finds that the evaluation of such projects remains rooted in non-local beliefs about the nature of the environment, the commodification of land, and the inevitability of a hydrocarbon-based economy.…