Negotiating the Political Ecology of Aboriginal Resource Management: How Mi'kmaq Manage Their Moose and Lobster Harvest in Unama'ki, Nova Scotia, Canada

• Main Author: Huber, Bernard
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified; Co-management; Decolonization; Political ecology; School: School of Geography; Environment and Earth Sciences; 059999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified; Marsden: 300803 Natural Resources Management; Degree Discipline: Geography; Degree Level: Masters; Degree Name: Master of Science; Breton Island; Canada; Marsden
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.26686/wgtn.16959103.v1; https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Negotiating_the_Political_Ecology_of_Aboriginal_Resource_Management_How_Mi_kmaq_Manage_Their_Moose_and_Lobster_Harvest_in_Unama_ki_Nova_Scotia_Canada/16959103

Since the Supreme Court of Canada affirmed the fishing and hunting rights of the Mi'kmaq nation in 1985 and 1990, the government has failed to accommodate these in appropriate and effective resource management frameworks. In Unama'ki/Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, the subsistence harvest...