Indigenous Processes of Consent: Repoliticizing Water Governance through Legal Pluralism

• Published in: Water
• Main Author: Curran, Deborah
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Water 2019
• Subjects: water governance; politics; law; decision-making processes; governmentalities; UNDRIP; free; prior and informed consent; FPIC; groundwater; environmental flows; environmental assessment; Canada; British Columbia; First Nations
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1828/10673; https://doi.org/10.3390/w11030571

While international instruments and a few state governments endorse the “free, prior and informed consent” of Indigenous peoples in decision-making about the water in their traditional territories, most state water governance regimes do not recognize Indigenous water rights and responsibilities. App...