Disentangling Benefit-Sharing Complexities of Oil Extraction on the North Slope of Alaska
This paper analyses benefit-sharing arrangements between oil companies, native corporations, the North Slope Borough, and Indigenous Peoples in Alaska. It aims to disentangle the complexities of benefit-sharing to understand existing procedural and distributive equity. We identified benefit-sharing...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:aff4d82221ed498e946767b4c54594f0 2023-05-15T15:08:40+02:00 Disentangling Benefit-Sharing Complexities of Oil Extraction on the North Slope of Alaska Maria S. Tysiachniouk 2020-07-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.3390/su12135432 https://doaj.org/article/aff4d82221ed498e946767b4c54594f0 EN eng MDPI AG https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/13/5432 https://doaj.org/toc/2071-1050 doi:10.3390/su12135432 2071-1050 https://doaj.org/article/aff4d82221ed498e946767b4c54594f0 Sustainability, Vol 12, Iss 5432, p 5432 (2020) benefit-sharing oil production Arctic Indigenous Peoples Alaska participatory equity Environmental effects of industries and plants TD194-195 Renewable energy sources TJ807-830 Environmental sciences GE1-350 article 2020 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.3390/su12135432 2022-12-31T04:00:57Z This paper analyses benefit-sharing arrangements between oil companies, native corporations, the North Slope Borough, and Indigenous Peoples in Alaska. It aims to disentangle the complexities of benefit-sharing to understand existing procedural and distributive equity. We identified benefit-sharing regimes involving modes, principles, and mechanisms of benefit-sharing. This includes modes that reflect institutionalized interactions, such as paternalism, company centered social responsibility (CCSR), partnership, and shareholders. Principles can be based on compensation, investment and charity. Mechanisms can involve negotiated benefits and structured benefits, mandated by legislation, contracts, or regulation. Furthermore, mechanisms can involve semi-formal and trickle-down benefits. Trickle-down benefits come automatically to the community along with development. The distribution of money by the North Slope Borough represents the paternalistic mode, yet involves investment and mandated principles with top–down decision making. They are relatively high in distributional equity and low in participatory equity. Native corporations predominantly practice the shareholders’ mode, investment principle, and mandated mechanisms. The oil companies’ benefit-sharing represents a mixed type combining CCSR and partnership modess, several principles (investment, compensatory, charity) and multiple types of mechanisms, such as mandated, negotiated, semi-formal and trickle-down. These arrangements vary in terms of distributive equity, and participatory equity is limited. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic north slope Alaska Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Charity ENVELOPE(-60.333,-60.333,-62.733,-62.733) Sustainability 12 13 5432 |
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This paper analyses benefit-sharing arrangements between oil companies, native corporations, the North Slope Borough, and Indigenous Peoples in Alaska. It aims to disentangle the complexities of benefit-sharing to understand existing procedural and distributive equity. We identified benefit-sharing regimes involving modes, principles, and mechanisms of benefit-sharing. This includes modes that reflect institutionalized interactions, such as paternalism, company centered social responsibility (CCSR), partnership, and shareholders. Principles can be based on compensation, investment and charity. Mechanisms can involve negotiated benefits and structured benefits, mandated by legislation, contracts, or regulation. Furthermore, mechanisms can involve semi-formal and trickle-down benefits. Trickle-down benefits come automatically to the community along with development. The distribution of money by the North Slope Borough represents the paternalistic mode, yet involves investment and mandated principles with top–down decision making. They are relatively high in distributional equity and low in participatory equity. Native corporations predominantly practice the shareholders’ mode, investment principle, and mandated mechanisms. The oil companies’ benefit-sharing represents a mixed type combining CCSR and partnership modess, several principles (investment, compensatory, charity) and multiple types of mechanisms, such as mandated, negotiated, semi-formal and trickle-down. These arrangements vary in terms of distributive equity, and participatory equity is limited. |
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Disentangling Benefit-Sharing Complexities of Oil Extraction on the North Slope of Alaska |
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