Counter-institutionalizing First Nation–Crown relations in British Columbia

Persaud, Anthony W.; Satterfield, Terre; Macdonald, Eliana

doi:10.1177/0308518x20924027

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“…However, their assistance and size are usually substantially smaller than settler municipalities. As a result, these processes result in Indigenous communities that are under-resourced and overburdened [54]. The need for Indigenous communities to conform to settler bureaucracy becomes a route by which the settler state continues to enforce and accelerate institutional power asymmetries, eroding Indigenous selfdetermination [44], and reinforcing colonial structures.…”

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Unsettling NbS: A pathway towards shifting colonial power relations in nature-based solutions research and practice

Rees,

Doyon

2023

PLOS Clim

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This article presents a synthesis and analysis drawing from NbS Justice, NBS Indigenous and NbS more-than-human literature, Indigenous governance, Indigenous planning and coexistence planning literature. The aim of this paper is to contribute to understandings of NbS and colonialism through critical reflection, as well as provide tools for action to for researchers and practitioners. In settler-colonial contexts, NbS are colonizing by default. Colonialism operates through producing and growing power asymmetries, which exist in NbS research and practice. These power asymmetries are perpetuated and accelerated by settler NbS practitioners and researchers. However, knowledge co-production that embodies ethical space principles with Indigenous partners in NbS may support power redistribution. To support settler NbS practitioners and researchers, we present a potential process to support mutually beneficial knowledge co-production consisting of three stages; pre-engagement, internal engagement and external/collective engagement.

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Section: Institutional Power Asymmetries and Nbsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unsettling NbS: A pathway towards shifting colonial power relations in nature-based solutions research and practice

Rees,

Doyon

2023

PLOS Clim

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Supplementing Environmental Assessments with Cumulative Effects Scenario Modeling for Grizzly Bear Connectivity in the Bow Valley, Alberta, Canada

Carlson¹,

Young²,

Linnard³

et al. 2022

Environmental Management

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Persistence of sensitive wildlife in populated regions requires conservation strategies that address gradual expansion of development footprint and human activity. The project-based environmental assessment regime for municipal development is poorly suited to provide necessary strategic perspective, given its focus on local and short-term impacts. We used the ALCES cumulative effects model to strategically assess impacts to grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) in the Bow Valley of Alberta, Canada. Landscape simulation mapped expansion of past and potential future development footprint in the region over multiple decades. Consequences to movement connectivity for grizzly bears were estimated by applying a least cost path analysis to the landscape simulation. An index of recreational activity was derived from fitness tracking data and integrated with the landscape simulation to model change in recreational activity through time. Maps of grizzly bear connectivity and recreational activity were combined to calculate human-bear conflict risk. The analysis suggests that connectivity has been altered through displacement to upslope areas by settlement expansion, such that surrounding natural areas have become important for grizzly bear connectivity. These areas are also popular for outdoor recreation, resulting in elevated human-bear conflict risk which can be expected to increase if development and human activity continue to expand in high connectivity areas. Conservation of wildlife in populated regions will be supported by broadening the scope of environmental assessment to address cumulative effects of development footprint and human activity over large spatial and temporal scales.

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Land governance for agroecology

Wittman

James

2022

Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene

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Agroecological transitions aim to redesign the structure of contemporary global food systems to improve food security, ecosystem health, community development, worker livelihoods, and social and ecological justice. A fundamental principle of agroecology is the responsible governance of land. Yet land—as a concept, resource, and territory—is heavily contested through processes of colonization, enclosure, commodification, and financialization. The governance of land and natural resources is also intimately tied to questions of power and privilege—Who governs land? Who benefits, and who is excluded? These questions presuppose an ontological understanding of land that can also be contested: What is land, what purpose(s) does it serve, and for whom? In this article, we review key concepts at the intersection of land governance and agroecology. We take a case study approach to highlight how tensions around ontologies of land mediate agroecological futures in 2 settler-colonial contexts: Brazil and Canada. We then explore how land governance for agroecology might be experienced and understood across different land governance institutions—including relational and community commons, private property regimes, and new forms of hybrid land relations that challenge land privatization. We discuss how these land regimes influence people, landscapes, and agroecological outcomes and conclude with a consideration of the access, equity, and justice implications of different land governance approaches for sustainable food systems.

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Counter-institutionalizing First Nation–Crown relations in British Columbia

Cited by 4 publications

References 54 publications

Unsettling NbS: A pathway towards shifting colonial power relations in nature-based solutions research and practice

Unsettling NbS: A pathway towards shifting colonial power relations in nature-based solutions research and practice

Supplementing Environmental Assessments with Cumulative Effects Scenario Modeling for Grizzly Bear Connectivity in the Bow Valley, Alberta, Canada

Land governance for agroecology

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