The Split Personality of Planning

Abstract

The international movement toward recognition of indigenous rights over the past thirty years has created a number of complex and compelling issues in planning for the use of land and natural resources. Planning should have much to say about many of these issues, given its concern for the use of land and resources, its focus on problem-solving, and its normative disposition. There is, however, only a modest literature on indigenous planning. Thus, we draw on the planning literature, but also call heavily on work from associated disciplines to introduce to planning scholars some of the problems and opportunities indigenous communities face with respect to land and resource management.

Indigenous Water Governance in Australia: Comparisons with the United States and Canada

“…Although the legal and political bases for Indigenous dispossession have varied among the post-settler states, they had the common result of creating 'reserves' and 'reservations' as diminished land bases for the remaining Indigenous population. These lands typically represent a portion of what previously constituted the custodial lands of pre-colonial Indigenous populations [9].…”

“…The trend toward negotiated agreements between Indigenous groups and other land and resource claimants resulted from the need to provide a solution to the dispute over land and resources often entrained by Indigenous claims [9]. Canada's approach-which has been influential in Australia-is to pursue negotiated agreements at a regional scale (which may include federal, provincial, local and first nation governments) that provide for shared resource control and access between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.…”

“…Canada's approach-which has been influential in Australia-is to pursue negotiated agreements at a regional scale (which may include federal, provincial, local and first nation governments) that provide for shared resource control and access between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. With limited success, this approach has been pursued in Australia under Native Title legislation [9].…”

Indigenous free prior informed consent: a case for self determination in World Heritage nomination processes

“…Transformative and participatory approaches are understood as a planning method that is reflexive to community capacity, utilising new technologies of planning and acknowledgement of difference between communities and has the potential to decentralise and afford more power to Indigenous People compared to the more common institutional approach to governance of Indigenous communities and their interests (Lane 2002, Hibbard andLane 2008). In the case of Cape York Peninsula, the general approach to planning for negotiating consent as part of the early stages of the nomination procedure for potential listing has leant towards an institutional approach as opposed to a transformative or participatory approach.…”

Indigenous peoples and collaborative forest governance in northern forests: examining changes in policies, institutions, and communities

“…Existing research on Indigenous participation in resource management provides some important insights regarding the qualities of collaboration in the field of resource management, including topics such as institutional design and power-sharing (Hibbard et al 2008;Lawler and Bullock 2017;Rodon 2018), Indigenous values and worldviews (Spak 2005;Stevenson 2006;Houde 2007;von der Porten and de Loë 2013;Beaudoin et al 2015), the integration of science and traditional knowledge (Moller et al 2004;Armitage et al 2011), social and cross-cultural learning (Castro and Nielsen 2001;Natcher et al 2005;Berkes 2009), and corporate social responsibility (Cameron and Levitan 2014;Papillon and Rodon 2017;Wyatt and Teitelbaum 2018). Research is helping to build a portrait of Indigenous participation in the resource sector; however, more work is needed to keep abreast of new initiatives and the rapidly evolving legal and policy context at both national and international levels.…”