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Colonialism in Community-Based Monitoring: Knowledge Systems, Finance, and Power in Canada

Community-based monitoring (CBM) programs are increasingly popular models of environmental governance around the world. Accordingly, a handful of review papers have highlighted the various benefits, challenges, and governance models associated with their uptake.

Shifting the Framework of Canadian Water Governance through Indigenous Research Methods: Acknowledging the Past with an Eye on the Future

First Nations communities in Canada are disproportionately affected by poor water quality. As one example, many communities have been living under boil water advisories for decades, but government interventions to date have had limited impact.

Reciprocal Research and Learning with Indigenous Communities

Within Indigenous communities, concerns regarding water quality from inadequate infrastructure and upstream industrial development, as well as ecosystem and human health effects from toxin release into the environment have increased significantly (Grinde 1995).

Articles in Popular Media

1.) Wong, R., & Goto, H. (2017, November 30). Opinion: A letter from the future on Site C. Vancouver Observer. Retrieved from https://www.vancouverobserver.com/opinion/opinion-letter-future-site-c 2.) Hendriks, R., Raphals, P., Bakker, K., & Christie, G. (2017, November 21). First Nations and Hydropower: The Case of British Columbia’s Site C Dam Project.” Items: Insights from the Social Sciences. […]

Navigating the tensions in collaborative watershed governance: Water governance and Indigenous communities in British Columbia, Canada

First Nations in British Columbia (BC), Canada, have historically been—and largely continue to be—excluded from colonial governments’ decision-making and management frameworks for fresh water.

De-colonizing water. Dispossession, water insecurity, and Indigenous claims for resources, authority, and territory

Set against the background of struggles for territory, livelihood, and dignified existence in Latin America’s neoliberal conjuncture, this paper examines contemporary Andean Indigenous claims for water access and control rights based on historical arguments.

Multiple ontologies of water: Politics, conflict and implications for governance

We ask what it would mean to take seriously the possibility of multiple water ontologies, and what the implications of this would be for water governance in theory and practice. We contribute to a growing body of literature that is reformulating understanding of human–water relations and refocusing on the fundamental question of what water ‘is’.

Whose input counts? Evaluating the process and outcomes of public consultation through the BC Water Act Modernization

Public consultation has become an increasingly common form of democratic engagement. While critics have challenged the potential for public consultation to democratize policy-making due to existing power structures, few studies have undertaken a systematic evaluation of the policy outcomes of consultation.

Standing Up for Inherent Rights: The Role of Indigenous-led Activism in Protecting Sacred Waters and Ways of Life

Time and time again, Indigenous people throughout the world are faced with the need to reassert their way of life, and to “buck” political and social systems that continually marginalize their treaty rights.

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