Environmental justice in Canada: An application to a First Nations' struggle to protect caribou from coal mining in northeast British Columbia.
In the United States of America, the field of environmental justice has become an important consideration in land use planning and natural resource management decisions regarding the protection of minorities. Within Canada, however, the field of environmental justice is not part of the legislative o...
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ftarcabc:oai:arcabc.ca:unbc_16157 2024-06-02T08:06:43+00:00 Environmental justice in Canada: An application to a First Nations' struggle to protect caribou from coal mining in northeast British Columbia. Muir, Bruce Robert (Author) Booth, Annie (Thesis advisor) University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution) 2011 electronic Number of pages in document: 259 https://arcabc.ca/islandora/object/unbc%3A16157 https://doi.org/10.24124/2011/bpgub793 English eng University of Northern British Columbia https://arcabc.ca/islandora/object/unbc%3A16157 uuid: 82027f3d-c0ec-4a4f-83d6-8744ba14076d bib-number: MR75159 isbn: 978-0-494-75159-6 https://doi.org/10.24124/2011/bpgub793 lac: TC-BPGUB-793 Copyright retained by the author. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Environmental justice -- Canada Environmental justice -- British Columbia -- Case studies West Moberly First Nation -- Land tenure Caribou -- Effect of mining on -- British Columbia Northern Coal mines and mining -- Environmental aspects -- British Columbia GE240.C3 M85 2011 Text thesis 2011 ftarcabc https://doi.org/10.24124/2011/bpgub793 2024-05-06T00:30:44Z In the United States of America, the field of environmental justice has become an important consideration in land use planning and natural resource management decisions regarding the protection of minorities. Within Canada, however, the field of environmental justice is not part of the legislative or policy regime used in environmental decision making. The focus of this study was to incorporate environmental justice into a situation in Canada involving a First Nation and a land and natural resource conflict. A phenomenology study design and a content analysis of the existing data were used to develop and apply the equality framework to a recent land use conflict between West Moberly First Nations and the Provincial Government of British Columbia. The results demonstrated that environmental justice can be incorporated into a Canadian context. When applied to the land use conflict, the equality framework demonstrated that the decisions made by the government to permit a coal mining company to destroy the critical habitat of a threatened herd of caribou were tantamount to an environmental injustice for the First Nation. The study concludes by discussing the differences of environmental justice as developed America in comparison to Canada, the challenges that associated with incorporation, and potential future applications and frameworks. --P. 2. The original print copy of this thesis may be available here: http://wizard.unbc.ca/record=b1741114 Thesis First Nations Arca (BC's Digital Treasures) Canada British Columbia ENVELOPE(-125.003,-125.003,54.000,54.000) Moberly ENVELOPE(-63.668,-63.668,-64.739,-64.739) |
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Environmental justice -- Canada Environmental justice -- British Columbia -- Case studies West Moberly First Nation -- Land tenure Caribou -- Effect of mining on -- British Columbia Northern Coal mines and mining -- Environmental aspects -- British Columbia GE240.C3 M85 2011 |
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Environmental justice -- Canada Environmental justice -- British Columbia -- Case studies West Moberly First Nation -- Land tenure Caribou -- Effect of mining on -- British Columbia Northern Coal mines and mining -- Environmental aspects -- British Columbia GE240.C3 M85 2011 Environmental justice in Canada: An application to a First Nations' struggle to protect caribou from coal mining in northeast British Columbia. |
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Environmental justice -- Canada Environmental justice -- British Columbia -- Case studies West Moberly First Nation -- Land tenure Caribou -- Effect of mining on -- British Columbia Northern Coal mines and mining -- Environmental aspects -- British Columbia GE240.C3 M85 2011 |
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In the United States of America, the field of environmental justice has become an important consideration in land use planning and natural resource management decisions regarding the protection of minorities. Within Canada, however, the field of environmental justice is not part of the legislative or policy regime used in environmental decision making. The focus of this study was to incorporate environmental justice into a situation in Canada involving a First Nation and a land and natural resource conflict. A phenomenology study design and a content analysis of the existing data were used to develop and apply the equality framework to a recent land use conflict between West Moberly First Nations and the Provincial Government of British Columbia. The results demonstrated that environmental justice can be incorporated into a Canadian context. When applied to the land use conflict, the equality framework demonstrated that the decisions made by the government to permit a coal mining company to destroy the critical habitat of a threatened herd of caribou were tantamount to an environmental injustice for the First Nation. The study concludes by discussing the differences of environmental justice as developed America in comparison to Canada, the challenges that associated with incorporation, and potential future applications and frameworks. --P. 2. The original print copy of this thesis may be available here: http://wizard.unbc.ca/record=b1741114 |
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Muir, Bruce Robert (Author) Booth, Annie (Thesis advisor) University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution) |
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Environmental justice in Canada: An application to a First Nations' struggle to protect caribou from coal mining in northeast British Columbia. |
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Environmental justice in Canada: An application to a First Nations' struggle to protect caribou from coal mining in northeast British Columbia. |
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Environmental justice in Canada: An application to a First Nations' struggle to protect caribou from coal mining in northeast British Columbia. |
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Environmental justice in Canada: An application to a First Nations' struggle to protect caribou from coal mining in northeast British Columbia. |
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Environmental justice in Canada: An application to a First Nations' struggle to protect caribou from coal mining in northeast British Columbia. |
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environmental justice in canada: an application to a first nations' struggle to protect caribou from coal mining in northeast british columbia. |
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ENVELOPE(-125.003,-125.003,54.000,54.000) ENVELOPE(-63.668,-63.668,-64.739,-64.739) |
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