Resourceful impacts: Harm and valuation of the sacred

• Main Author: Sari Graben
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Indigenous law; risk; environmental assessment; aboriginal rights; valuation; sacred sites; cultural loss; cost-benefit analysis; Copper Mine; Northwest Territories
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.32920/22223377.v1; https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Resourceful_impacts_Harm_and_valuation_of_the_sacred/22223377

The use of rationalized risk assessment to identify the costs and benefits of protecting Aboriginal sacred sites is ubiquitous in Canadian law. Like other contemporary critics of cost-benefit analysis, I voice concerns with its use to adjudicate moral claims and recognize that it can misidentify the...