Navigating the Tensions in Collaborative Watershed Governance : Water Governance and Indigenous Communities in British Columbia, Canada
First Nations in British Columbia (BC), Canada, have historically been—and largely continue to be—excluded from colonial governments’ decision-making and management frameworks for fresh water. However, in light of recent legal and legislative changes, and also changes in water governance and policy,...
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ftunivbritcolcir:oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/60442 2023-05-15T16:14:26+02:00 Navigating the Tensions in Collaborative Watershed Governance : Water Governance and Indigenous Communities in British Columbia, Canada Simms, Rosie Harris, Leila Joe, Nadia Bakker, Karen University of British Columbia. Program on Water Governance EDGES (University of British Columbia) British Columbia 2016-06 http://hdl.handle.net/2429/60442 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.04.005 eng eng Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ CC-BY-NC-ND collaborative water governance First Nations watersheds Text Article Postprint 2016 ftunivbritcolcir https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.04.005 2019-10-15T18:22:15Z First Nations in British Columbia (BC), Canada, have historically been—and largely continue to be—excluded from colonial governments’ decision-making and management frameworks for fresh water. However, in light of recent legal and legislative changes, and also changes in water governance and policy, there is growing emphasis in scholarship and among legal, policy and advocacy communities on shifting water governance away from a centralized single authority towards an approach that is watershed-based, collaborative, and involves First Nations as central to decisionmaking processes. Drawing on community-based research, interviews with First Nations natural resource staff and community members, and document review, the paper analyzes the tensions in collaborative water governance, by identifying First Nations’ concerns within the current water governance system and exploring how a move towards collaborative watershed governance may serve to either address, or further entrench, these concerns. This paper concludes with recommendations for collaborative water governance frameworks which are specifically focused on British Columbia, but which have relevance to broader debates over Indigenous water governance. Science, Faculty of Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES), Institute for Reviewed Faculty Graduate Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations University of British Columbia: cIRcle - UBC's Information Repository Canada British Columbia ENVELOPE(-125.003,-125.003,54.000,54.000) Geoforum 73 6 16 |
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First Nations in British Columbia (BC), Canada, have historically been—and largely continue to be—excluded from colonial governments’ decision-making and management frameworks for fresh water. However, in light of recent legal and legislative changes, and also changes in water governance and policy, there is growing emphasis in scholarship and among legal, policy and advocacy communities on shifting water governance away from a centralized single authority towards an approach that is watershed-based, collaborative, and involves First Nations as central to decisionmaking processes. Drawing on community-based research, interviews with First Nations natural resource staff and community members, and document review, the paper analyzes the tensions in collaborative water governance, by identifying First Nations’ concerns within the current water governance system and exploring how a move towards collaborative watershed governance may serve to either address, or further entrench, these concerns. This paper concludes with recommendations for collaborative water governance frameworks which are specifically focused on British Columbia, but which have relevance to broader debates over Indigenous water governance. Science, Faculty of Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES), Institute for Reviewed Faculty Graduate |
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Navigating the Tensions in Collaborative Watershed Governance : Water Governance and Indigenous Communities in British Columbia, Canada |
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Navigating the Tensions in Collaborative Watershed Governance : Water Governance and Indigenous Communities in British Columbia, Canada |
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Navigating the Tensions in Collaborative Watershed Governance : Water Governance and Indigenous Communities in British Columbia, Canada |
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Navigating the Tensions in Collaborative Watershed Governance : Water Governance and Indigenous Communities in British Columbia, Canada |
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Navigating the Tensions in Collaborative Watershed Governance : Water Governance and Indigenous Communities in British Columbia, Canada |
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navigating the tensions in collaborative watershed governance : water governance and indigenous communities in british columbia, canada |
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