Extractive industry and the sustainability of Canada's Arctic communities / edited by Chris Southcott [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Southcott, Chris, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecology.

Economic history.

Indigenous peoples--Social conditions.

Indigenous peoples.

Sustainable development.

Canada, Northern--Economic conditions.

Canada, Northern.

Canada, Northern--Environmental conditions.

Canada, Northern--Social conditions.

Northern Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (383 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022]

Summary:

This collection delves into the final research findings of the SSHRC-sponsored MCRI project "Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic," which attempted to determine what was required for extractive industry to benefit northern communities, and advocates for a more authentic participation from the Indigenous peoples of Canada's Arctic.

Contents:

Cover

EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRY AND THE SUSTAINABILITY OF CANADA'S ARCTIC COMMUNITIES

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Contents

Tables and Figures

1 Extractive Industry and the Sustainability of Canada's Arctic Communities: An Introduction

2 Resource Revenue Allocation Strategies and Indigenous Community Sustainable Development

3 Mining Economies, Mining Families: The Impacts of Extractive Industries on Economic and Human Development in the Eastern Sub-Arctic

4 Local Benefits of Education, Training, and Employment with Resource Industries

5 Finding Space for Subsistence and Extractive Resource Development in Northern Canada

6 The FIFO Social Overlap: Success and Pitfalls of Long-Distance Commuting in the Mining Sector

7 Reframing Benefits: Indigenous Women and Resource Governance in Northern Canada

8 "It's a precarious situation": Situating Housing First Within the Resource Dependent Economy in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

9 Environmental Legacies: Mine Remediation Policy and Practice in Northern Canada

10 Facilitating Sustainable Waste Management in a Northern Community and Resource Development Context at Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador

11 The Social Economy and Resource Governance in Nunavut

12 Impacts of Mining on Well-Being : A Disconnect between Theory and Practice

13 Measuring the Social and Economic Impacts of Extractive Industry in the Arctic: Developing Baseline Social Indicators for the Inuvialuit Settlement Region

14 Measuring Social Impacts: Building Tools for Understanding Community Well-Being

15 What Must Happen for Extractive Industry to Help the Sustainability of Northern Communities?

Contributors.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-2280-1347-X

OCLC:

1298288189