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Extractive industry and the sustainability of Canada's Arctic communities / edited by Chris Southcott, Frances Abele, David Natcher, and Brenda Parlee.

Southcott, Chris, (editor.). Abele, Frances, (editor.). Natcher, David C., 1967- (editor.). Parlee, Brenda, 1970- (editor.).

Summary:

"Modern treaties, increased self-government, new environmental assessment rules, co-management bodies, and increased recognition and respect of Indigenous rights make it possible for northern communities to exert some control over extractive industries. Whether these industries can increase the well-being and sustainability of Canada's Arctic communities, however, is still open to question. Extractive Industry and the Sustainability of Canada's Arctic Communities delves into the final research findings of the SSHRC-sponsored MCRI project "Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic," which attempted to determine what was required for extractive industry to benefit northern communities. Drawing on case studies, this book explores how Northern communities can capture and distribute a fairer share of financial benefits, how they can use extractive activities for business development, the problems and possibilities of employment and training opportunities, and the impacts on gender relations. It also considers fly-in fly-out work patterns, subsistence activities, housing, post-mine clean-up activities, waste management, and ways of monitoring positive and negative impacts. While extractive industries could potentially help improve the sustainability of Canada's Arctic, many issues remain in the way, most notably power imbalances that limit the ability of the Indigenous people to equitably participate in the governance of extractive industries. Extractive Industry and the Sustainability of Canada's Arctic Communities emphasizes the general need to determine how new institutions and processes, which are largely imported from the south, can be more effectively adapted to allow for a more authentic participation from the Indigenous peoples of Canada's Arctic."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780228011552
ISBN: 0228011558
Physical Description: ix, 372 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Publisher: Montreal ; McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022]
Copyright: ©2022

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Extractive industry and the sustainability of Canada's arctic communities: an introduction / Chris Southcott, Frances Abele, David Natcher, and Brenda Parlee -- Resource revenue allocation strategies and Indigenous community sustainable development / Thierry Rodon, Isabel Lemus-Lauzon, Jean-Marc Séguin, and Stephan Schott -- Mining economies, mining families: the impacts of extractive industries on economic and human development in the eastern sub-arctic / Stephan Schott, Anteneh Belayneh, Jean-Sébastien Boutet, Thierry Rodon, and Jean-Marc Séguin -- Local benefits of education, training, and employment with resource industries / Andrew Hodgkins -- Finding space for subsistence and extractive resource development in northern Canada / Rebecca Rooke, Harvey Lemelin, and David Natcher -- The FIFO social overlap: success and pitfalls of long-distance commuting in the mining sector / Gertrude Saxinger -- Reframing benefits: Indigenous women and resource governance in northern Canada / Suzanne Mills, Deborah Simmons, Leon Andrew, and Johanna Tuglavina -- "It's a precarious situation": situating housing first within the resource dependent economy in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories / Lisa Freeman and Julia Christensen -- Environmental legacies: mine remediation policy and practice in northern Canada / Anne Dance, Miranda Monosky, Arn Keeling, and John Sandlos -- Facilitating sustainable waste management in a northern community and resource development context at Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador / Catherine Keske -- The social economy and resource governance in Nunavut / Joshua Gladstone and Sheena Kennedy Dalseg -- Impacts of mining on well-being: a disconnect between theory and practice / Brenda Parlee -- Measuring the social and economic impacts of extractive industry in the arctic: developing baseline social indicators for the Inuvialuit settlement region / Andrey N. Petrov, Chris Southcott, Philip Cavin, and Bob Simpson -- Measuring social impacts: building tools for understanding community well-being / Todd Godfrey and Bruno Wichmann -- What must happen for extractive industry to help the sustainability of northern communities? / Chris Southcott, Frances Abele, David Natcher, and Brenda Parlee.