SACRED SUSTAINABILITY: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ONTARIO’S FIRST NATIONS’WATER VALUES IN RELATION TO THE LAW OF THE GREAT LAKES & ST. LAWRENCE RIVER BASIN & THE CURRENT PROPERTY LAW PARADIGM

• Main Author: Stepura, Matthew Joseph
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholarship@Western 2011
• Subjects: The Great Lakes Basin and St. Lawrence River; water law; Ontario First Nations; traditional knowledge; property law; property theory; public trust doctrine; sustainability theory; aboriginal rights; International law; Canada; Lawrence River; First Nations
• Online Access: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/digitizedtheses/3642; https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/context/digitizedtheses/article/7460/viewcontent/2022_03_25_Sacred_Sustainability_and_the_Law_of_the_Lakes_OCR.pdf

With the human population set to reach seven billion people and society’s awareness of its effects and demands upon the environment, there exists a general consciousness that new thinking is required to “save” the earth’s resources. This is especially true with fresh water, a limited and highly soug...