Corporate Social Responsibility and the Extractive Industries in the Ecuadorian Amazon: Indigenous Rights and the Environment

Etchart, Linda

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-81519-6_5

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“…FPIC has had a checked history elsewhere as well; a review of 68 cases of consultations between mining firms and Indigenous and local communities across Latin America found some cases of success in supporting community efforts to protect their lands and other cases of failure (Walter and Urkidi 2017 ). Indeed, FPIC can have pernicious effects, by creating the appearance of consent when such consent is neither free nor informed, as was recently documented for the Ecuadorian Amazon (Etchart 2022 ).…”

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Placing diverse knowledge systems at the core of transformative climate research

Orlove¹,

Sherpa²,

Dawson³

et al. 2023

Ambio

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We argue that solutions-based research must avoid treating climate change as a merely technical problem, recognizing instead that it is symptomatic of the history of European and North American colonialism. It must therefore be addressed by decolonizing the research process and transforming relations between scientific expertise and the knowledge systems of Indigenous Peoples and of local communities. Partnership across diverse knowledge systems can be a path to transformative change only if those systems are respected in their entirety, as indivisible cultural wholes of knowledge, practices, values, and worldviews. This argument grounds our specific recommendations for governance at the local, national, and international scales. As concrete mechanisms to guide collaboration across knowledge systems, we propose a set of instruments based on the principles of consent, intellectual and cultural autonomy, and justice. We recommend these instruments as tools to ensure that collaborations across knowledge systems embody just partnerships in support of a decolonial transformation of relations between human communities and between humanity and the more-than-human world.

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Section: Recommendationsmentioning

confidence: 98%