Regions: North Slave Region
Tags: environmental assessment, health, social sciences, mining impacts, landscape disturbance, agreement negotiation, industrial development, community engagement, environmental compensation, socio-cultural, cooperative governance
| Principal Investigator: | Galbraith, Lindsay (1) |
| Licence Number: | 13632 |
| Organization: | Simon Fraser University |
| Licensed Year(s): |
2004
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| Issued: | May 20, 2004 |
| Project Team: | N/A |
Objective(s): This research is concerned with increasingly fractious relations between mining firms and local communities in Canada's hinterlands, and the systems of governance that aim to mediate these relations. More specifically, this research seeks to understand the rationale of indigenous communities in the Northwest Territories for establishing Impact and Benefit Agreements (IBAs) with a number of diamond mine developers north of Yellowknife. This research will attempt to understand the rise of IBAs as an innovative form of environmental governance from the perspective of First Nation decision makers and regulators. In doing so, this research attempts to make a positive contribution to the practice of environmental assessment, especially in the Northwest Territories.
