Food security in environmental assessment in the Northwest Territories' Mackenzie Valley ...
Environmental assessment (EA) is an approvals process to determine whether large-scale resource development projects will have significant adverse impacts, and to mitigate these. Many Northwest Territories (NWT) communities and Dene and Métis Indigenous groups rely on traditional subsistence harvest...
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University of British Columbia
2024
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0438372 https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0438372 |
| Summary: | Environmental assessment (EA) is an approvals process to determine whether large-scale resource development projects will have significant adverse impacts, and to mitigate these. Many Northwest Territories (NWT) communities and Dene and Métis Indigenous groups rely on traditional subsistence harvesting to offset high costs of store-bought foods in the north. Food security can be affected through direct environmental impacts such as contaminants, impacts to wildlife and fish habitat, and climate change. While resource development projects can have economic benefits, they can affect access to these land-based foods, and can also have cultural, social, economic and health effects, such as changed perception of the land, reduced traditional knowledge and language transmission, and a shift from traditional economy towards a wage-based economy. The research questions are: 1) how is food security currently addressed in EA processes in the NWT’s Mackenzie Valley, and 2) should food security be more explicitly ... |
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