Effectiveness of British Columbia's environmental assessment policy for First Nations' participation in mine development
Historically, First Nations\u2019 participation in mine development in British Columbia has been minimal. More recently, mine developments in First Nations\u2019 traditional territories have created conflict between mine corporations and First Nations\u2019 communities. The focus of this research is...
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ftunbcolumbiadc:oai:unbc.arcabc.ca:unbc_16808 2023-10-29T02:36:18+01:00 Effectiveness of British Columbia's environmental assessment policy for First Nations' participation in mine development McClelland, James N. (Author) Baker, Doug (Thesis advisor) University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution) 2000 electronic Number of pages in document: 143 https://unbc.arcabc.ca/islandora/object/unbc:16808/datastream/PDF/download https://unbc.arcabc.ca/islandora/object/unbc%3A16808 https://doi.org/10.24124/2000/bpgub119 English eng University of Northern British Columbia Copyright retained by the author. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Mines and mineral resources -- Environmental aspects -- British Columbia Environmental impact analysis -- British Columbia Mineral industries -- Environmental aspects -- British Columbia Indians of North America -- British Columbia Mining law -- British Columbia HC79.E5 M33 1999 Text thesis 2000 ftunbcolumbiadc https://doi.org/10.24124/2000/bpgub119 2023-10-01T17:46:54Z Historically, First Nations\u2019 participation in mine development in British Columbia has been minimal. More recently, mine developments in First Nations\u2019 traditional territories have created conflict between mine corporations and First Nations\u2019 communities. The focus of this research is to determine: British Columbia\u2019s environmental assessment (EA) policy effectiveness for First Nations\u2019 participation in three cases of mine development; what impact the proclamation of the Environmental Assessment Act had on EA policy effectiveness; and, provide recommendations to improve British Columbia\u2019s EA policy effectiveness for First Nations\u2019 participation in mine development. Methods used include a literature review, post-hoc analysis, community observation, and comparative analysis to answer the research questions. Policy effectiveness for each case is determined with an analysis framework that examines efficacy from a practice, performance, proficiency, and purpose perspective. When combined, the four perspectives yield a measurement of overall policy effectiveness. The results of this study indicate that of the three cases of EA, none attained overall policy effectiveness for First Nations\u2019 participation. This is due to non-achievement of principles or objectives within each of the practice, performance, and transactive perspectives examined. The impact of the proclamation of British Columbia\u2019s Environmental Assessment Act on policy effectiveness was most readily seen within the performance perspective. Legislating First Nations to sit on the Project Committee helped towards the achieving of performance objectives. The study concludes with recommendations, based on the case study results, to improve British Columbia\u2019s EA policy effectiveness for First Nations\u2019 participation in mine development. The original print copy of this thesis may be available here: http://wizard.unbc.ca/record=b1202746 Thesis First Nations UNBC's Digital Institutional Repository (University of Northern British Columbia) |
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Mines and mineral resources -- Environmental aspects -- British Columbia Environmental impact analysis -- British Columbia Mineral industries -- Environmental aspects -- British Columbia Indians of North America -- British Columbia Mining law -- British Columbia HC79.E5 M33 1999 |
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Mines and mineral resources -- Environmental aspects -- British Columbia Environmental impact analysis -- British Columbia Mineral industries -- Environmental aspects -- British Columbia Indians of North America -- British Columbia Mining law -- British Columbia HC79.E5 M33 1999 |
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Historically, First Nations\u2019 participation in mine development in British Columbia has been minimal. More recently, mine developments in First Nations\u2019 traditional territories have created conflict between mine corporations and First Nations\u2019 communities. The focus of this research is to determine: British Columbia\u2019s environmental assessment (EA) policy effectiveness for First Nations\u2019 participation in three cases of mine development; what impact the proclamation of the Environmental Assessment Act had on EA policy effectiveness; and, provide recommendations to improve British Columbia\u2019s EA policy effectiveness for First Nations\u2019 participation in mine development. Methods used include a literature review, post-hoc analysis, community observation, and comparative analysis to answer the research questions. Policy effectiveness for each case is determined with an analysis framework that examines efficacy from a practice, performance, proficiency, and purpose perspective. When combined, the four perspectives yield a measurement of overall policy effectiveness. The results of this study indicate that of the three cases of EA, none attained overall policy effectiveness for First Nations\u2019 participation. This is due to non-achievement of principles or objectives within each of the practice, performance, and transactive perspectives examined. The impact of the proclamation of British Columbia\u2019s Environmental Assessment Act on policy effectiveness was most readily seen within the performance perspective. Legislating First Nations to sit on the Project Committee helped towards the achieving of performance objectives. The study concludes with recommendations, based on the case study results, to improve British Columbia\u2019s EA policy effectiveness for First Nations\u2019 participation in mine development. The original print copy of this thesis may be available here: http://wizard.unbc.ca/record=b1202746 |
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Effectiveness of British Columbia's environmental assessment policy for First Nations' participation in mine development |
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Effectiveness of British Columbia's environmental assessment policy for First Nations' participation in mine development |
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Effectiveness of British Columbia's environmental assessment policy for First Nations' participation in mine development |
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Effectiveness of British Columbia's environmental assessment policy for First Nations' participation in mine development |
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Effectiveness of British Columbia's environmental assessment policy for First Nations' participation in mine development |
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effectiveness of british columbia's environmental assessment policy for first nations' participation in mine development |
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University of Northern British Columbia |
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