Natural Resources

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Ottawa, 1994.

Cutting up seal meat for dogs. Northeast Devon Island, N.W.T. [NU].

Photograph of a wolf skin draped over boxes of field provisions. [Devon Island, NU]

Essay situates the #NoDAPL movement to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), within the historical context and the longer histories of Oceti Sakowin resistance against the trespass of settlers, dams, and pipelines across the Mni Sose, the Missouri River, and into Sioux territory.

Paper's information based on: literature review, interviews, case studies and a workshop. Primary focus is First Nations groups but also includes information on the North (Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut), offshore and national parks.

Looks at the issue in the context of gender-based violence as a human rights violation which is rooted in deep, structural discrimination and intersects with socio-economic and cultural rights violations. Outlines essential elements of a human-rights based response and identifies three keys to effectiveness.

Describes the financial performance of the regional corporations from their 1973 beginnings through to 1990.

Examines current provincial policies and identifies changes needed to improve relations between municipalities and Aboriginal communities.

Master of Urban and Regional Planning Thesis (M.Pl.)--Queen's University, 2001.

Explores the question "what ecological and social (institutional) factors affect how, when, and to what extent Traditional Knowledge holders have in decisions about key resource management issues?"

Developed to give practical information on being proactive about environmental issues. Accompanying material Facilitator's Guide

Replaces the Government of Saskatchewan Interim Guide for Consultation with First Nations and Métis People.

Study determines there is a 20-year supply of valuable underwater logs that could create employment for 12 people.

National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations discusses Saskatchewan's current resource-based boom, necessity for collaboration, and impact and benefit agreements with governments and companies. Duration: 2:00:34.

Focuses on the effects that logging, overfishing, and urbanization have on industrial salmon farming. Also discusses how consultation may be a repressive tactic, rather than a means of protecting title and rights.

Paper contains the main points raised by workshop participants.

Seven characteristics of economic development are identified, current development theories considered and the partnership of the Meadow Lake Tribal Council and Millar Western is described.

Discusses whether the relationship is one of positive collaboration or a potential source of conflict and confrontation.

Comments on treaties concerning resource rights, resource revenue and duty to consult.

Describes an act to provide First Nations with the option of managing and regulating oil and gas exploration and exploitation.

Discusses proposed changes to the law covering oil and gas activity on First Nations reserves which will enable more bands to get involved in the petroleum industry.

Discusses Aboriginal rights and working in partnership with First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities to equitably share in the benefits of resource development. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 12.

Argues Elders in Saskatchewan have been arguing for sustainability ever since the time of the Treaties.

Topics include the implications of the Tsilhqot’in and Grassy Narrows decisions, duty to consult, provincial treaty obligations, and proposed federal land claims policy.

Focuses on duty to consult and Indigenous rights.

Topics include Aboriginal title, treaties, the Métis, duty to consult, and land claims. 3rd edition.

Financial analysis of the risks to investors and shareholders when companies fail to honour Indigenous rights.

Examines how Canada investigated and distorted Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence's band finances as a way to discredit her demands that governments respect her community's treaty rights.

Studies fish weirs at Kitwancool Lake which dated from 770 years ago until the time of contact.

An Inuk man fishing in the traditional style; location unknown. Part of the "Inuit of Keewatin" series (#22).

Resource Management and Environmental Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2003.

Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University, 1971.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 1999.

Resources and Environmental Program Thesis (M.A.)--University of Calgary, 2002.

Author examines text and video about the Honor the Earth environmental organization's campaign against Enbridge pipeline projects to understand how the organization represents itself to the public, and how it’s represented by other media outlets. Finds a cultural and a procedural narrative are both present in the discourse.

Renewable Resources Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Alberta, 2000.

Advocates a more collaborative, inclusive approach to natural resources management research.

Book review of: Forging the Prairie West by John Herd Thompson.

Book review of: Formidable Heritage: Manitoba's North and the Cost of Development 1870 to 1930 by Jim Mochoruk.

Natural Resources Management Thesis (M.N.R.M.)--The University of Manitoba, 1998.

Provides links to extension program clusters, annual work plans and reports, business activities and other client services.

Looks at the Aboriginal capacity in natural resources management involving issues that encompass governance, institutional arrangements with other levels of government, and human resource development and that promote forest sustainability, contribute to social and cultural well-being, and respond to major environmental matters such as climate change mitigation.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2004.