This book offers multidisciplinary perspectives on the changing relationships between indigenous peoples and industries in the Arctic. It offers insights from Nordic countries, Canada and Russia to present different systems of resource governance and practices of managing industry-indigenous peoples relations.
This book offers multidisciplinary perspectives on the changing relationships between states, indigenous peoples and industries in the Arctic and beyond. It offers insights from Nordic countries, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Russia to present different systems of resource governance and practices of managing industry-indigenous peoples relations in the mining industry, renewable resource development and aquaculture.
Chapters cover growing international interest on Arctic natural resources, globalization of extractive industries and increasing land use conflicts. It considers issues such as equity, use of knowledge, development of company practices, conflict-solving measures and the role of indigenous institutions.
- Focus on Indigenous peoples and Governance triangle
- Multidisciplinary: political science, legal studies, sociology, administrative studies, Indigenous studies
- Global approach: Nordic countries, Canada, Russia, Australia, New Zealand and Canada
- Thorough case studies, rich material and analysis
The book will be of great interest to legal scholars, political scientists, experts in administrative sciences, authorities at different levels (local, regional and nations), experts in human rights and natural resources governance, experts in corporate social governance.
1. Indigenous rights and governance theory: an introduction.
2.
International law, state compliance and wind power: Gaelpie (Kalvvatnan) and
beyond.
3. Reindeer husbandry vs. wind energy: analysis of the Pauträsk and
Norrbäck court decisions in Sweden.
4. Indigenous agency in aquaculture
development in Norway and New Zealand.
5. Indigenous agency through normative
contestation: defining the scope of free, prior and informed consent in the
Russian North.
6. The role of the Tlicho Comprehensive Agreement in shaping
the relationship between the Tlicho and the mining industry in the Mackenzie
Valley, Northwest Territories (NWT), Canada.
7. The shifting state: rolling
over Indigenous rights in Ontario, Canada.
8. Emerging governance mechanisms
in Norway: a cautionary note from the Antipodes.
9. Paradigm conflicts:
challenges to implementing Indigenous rights in Sįpmi.
10. Revisiting the
governance triangle in the Arctic and beyond. Index.
Monica Tennberg, Research Professor, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Finland, Professor II, Centre for Sami Studies, UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
Else Grete Broderstad, Professor, Centre for Sami Studies, UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
Hans-Kristian Hernes, Professor, Department of Social Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
