First nations sovereignty, environmental justice, and degrowth in Northwest BC, Canada

• Published in: Ecological Economics
• Main Author: Frost, K.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: British Columbia; Canada; First Nations
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0004-3B09-1

Environmental Injustice has been intrinsic to Canadian extractivism, with First Nations displaced from their traditional territories and their cultural identity suppressed through an explicit policy of cultural genocide to make way for colonial extractivist practices. Likewise, this extractivism has...