Environmental Justice and Indigenous Environmental Justice

Parsons, Meg; Fisher, Karen; Crease, Roa Petra

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-61071-5_2

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“…Instead, the Foundation's power to influence governing norms and institutions is an indirect means of steering that involved filling monetary gaps that mobilized and galvanized other local governance actors and networks, a process sometimes referred to as “orchestration” (Abbott et al, 2016). Other environmental governance literatures on field‐building (Bartley, 2007; Phillips, 2018), agency (Betsill & Milkoreit, 2020), meta‐governance (Hooge et al, 2021), polycentricity (Carlisle & Gruby, 2019a) and environmental justice (Bennett, 2018; Bennett et al, 2021; Parsons et al, 2021) are ripe for engaging important questions of rights, sovereignty, and power in conservation philanthropy.…”

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More than funders: The roles of philanthropic foundations in marine conservation governance

Blackwatters

Betsill

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et al. 2022

Conservat Sci and Prac

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Environmental governance scholars have overlooked philanthropic foundations as influential non-state actors. This omission, along with the continued growth in funding from private foundations for conservation issues, presents important questions about what foundations do in governance spaces. To address this gap, we examine The David and Lucile Packard Foundation's involvement in Fiji and Palau in the context of the Foundation's "Western Pacific Program"-a series of coastal and marine-related investments made from 1998 to 2020. We describe and analyze six governance roles that the Packard Foundation contributed to: funding, influencing agendas, capacity-building, convening and coordinating, facilitating knowledge, and rule-making and regulation. In documenting the Packard Foundation's governance roles, we provide scholars and practitioners a conceptual framework to more systematically and strategically think about foundations as more than funders. This research helps move the conversation around conservation philanthropy beyond binary conceptions of "good" versus "bad," and, instead, toward deeper considerations about what foundations currently do within governance systems, how they engage with diverse practitioners, as well as what they can and should do to advance conservation goals.

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confidence: 99%

More than funders: The roles of philanthropic foundations in marine conservation governance

Blackwatters

Betsill

Enrici

et al. 2022

Conservat Sci and Prac

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“…While our review notes that industry, government, and the scientific community acknowledge the importance of Indigenous inclusion (Arquette et al, 2002; Ellison, 2012; Gover, 2007; Holifield, 2012; Michelsen, 2010; Nolan, 2009; Sistili et al, 2006), we found minimal evidence of Indigenous leadership in the management of contaminated sites. Recent literature from Indigenous scholars on natural resource management describes that the inclusion of and collaboration with Indigenous peoples in environmental management is often tokenistic (Parsons et al, 2021). The contribution of Indigenous voices in contaminated site management often occurs too late in the federal process, which perpetuates the “downstream” approach to site management discussed earlier.…”

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confidence: 99%

Contaminated Sites and Indigenous Peoples in Canada and the United States: A Scoping Review

Chong

Basu

2022

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Background: Indigenous communities in Canada and the US are disproportionately exposed to contaminated sites, often arising from industrial and waste disposal activities. For instance, ~34% of US EPA Superfund sites are of Native American interest, and ~29% of Canadian federal contaminated sites are on Indigenous reserve land. Contaminated sites pose unique challenges to many Indigenous peoples who consider the land as an integral part of food systems, culture, and the economy. Federal management of contaminated sites is challenged by epistemological differences, regulatory barriers, and minimal scientific research. Objectives: This scoping review aimed to identify and map information on contaminated sites and Indigenous peoples in Canada and the US, namely: 1) the relationship between contaminated sites and Indigenous people, and their land and food systems; 2) strategies, challenges, and successes for contaminated sites assessment and management on Indigenous land; and 3) Indigenous leadership and inclusion in contaminated site assessment and management. Methods: Three streams of data were retrieved from January to March 2022: a systematic literature search (key word groups: Indigenous people and contaminated sites); a grey literature search; and an analysis of federal contaminated site data (Canadian Federal Contaminated Sites Inventory and US EPA Superfund Database). Results: Our search yielded 49 peer-reviewed articles, 20 pieces of grey literature, and 8114 federal site records (1236 Superfund, 6878 FCSI), evidencing the contamination of the lands of 815 distinct Indigenous tribes and nations and the presence of 440 different contaminants or contaminant groups. Minimal information is available on the potential health and ecological effects, assessment and management of risks, and collaboration on contaminated site processes relative to the number of sites on or adjacent to Indigenous lands. Discussion: By integrating three diverse data streams we discovered a multi-disciplinary yet disparate body of information. The results point to a need to prioritize holism, efficiency, and Indigenous leadership in contaminated site assessment, management, and research. This should include a focus on community-specific approaches to site assessment and management; a re-conceptualization of risks related to sites that privileges Indigenous epistemologies; greater collaboration between networks such as the scientific community, Indigenous communities, and federal governments; and a re-evaluation of current management frameworks with Indigenous leadership at the forefront.

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“…The writer further maintains that the term incorporates 'environmental racism' and 'environmental classism,' which captures the idea that different racial and socioeconomic groups experience differential access to environmental quality. Scholars also argue that racism plays a critical factor in environmental planning and decision-making processes in the US and other settler nations (Parsons et al, 2021).…”

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Environmental justice in South Africa: the dilemma of informal settlement residents

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The concept of environmental justice is well established in the literature; however, scholars still battle to agree on what it really means. This concept has become more relevant to the studies of informal settlements amongst others. The location and environmental variables in informal settlements suggests a variety of injustices that comes with location, limited access to water, poor or lack of sanitation, challenges with transport availability, accessibility, affordability, and lack of other social amenities. These and many other socio-economic needs forms part of the value chain of environmental justice debates across the world. This paper deals with environmental justice in the informal settlements of Kosmos, in the Madibeng Local Municipality, Bojanala Region in the North-West Province of South Africa. The paper highlights some of the environmental challenges faced by the informal settlement residents such as pollution, waste management (landfill sites, waste collection) sanitation and water provision. The paper explores how the Kosmos informal settlement community has been excluded from decision making processes regarding their own environment and considers the levels of environmental injustices commonly associated with this kind of practice.

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Environmental Justice and Indigenous Environmental Justice

Cited by 27 publications

References 113 publications

More than funders: The roles of philanthropic foundations in marine conservation governance

More than funders: The roles of philanthropic foundations in marine conservation governance

Contaminated Sites and Indigenous Peoples in Canada and the United States: A Scoping Review

Environmental justice in South Africa: the dilemma of informal settlement residents

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