Title Extractive industry and the sustainability of Canada's Arctic communities / edited by Chris Southcott, Frances Abele, Dave Natcher, and Brenda Parlee

Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover -- EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRY AND THE SUSTAINABILITY OF CANADA'S ARCTIC COMMUNITIES -- Title -- Copyright -- 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 Summary "Modern treaties, increased self-government, new environmental assessment rules, co-management bodies, and increased recognition and respect of Indigenous rights make it possible for northern communities to exert some control over extractive industries. Whether these industries can increase the well-being and sustainability of Canada's Arctic communities, however, is still open to question. Extractive Industry and the Sustainability of Canada's Arctic Communities 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. Drawing on case studies, this book explores how Northern communities can capture and distribute a fairer share of financial benefits, how they can use extractive activities for business development, the problems and possibilities of employment and training opportunities, and the impacts on gender relations. It also considers fly-in fly-out work patterns, subsistence activities, housing, post-mine clean-up activities, waste management, and ways of monitoring positive and negative impacts. While extractive industries could potentially help improve the sustainability of Canada's Arctic, many issues remain in the way, most notably power imbalances that limit the ability of the Indigenous people to equitably participate in the governance of extractive industries. Extractive Industry and the Sustainability of Canada's Arctic Communities emphasizes the general need to determine how new institutions and processes, which are largely imported from the south, can be more effectively adapted to allow for a more authentic participation from the Indigenous peoples of Canada's Arctic."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 25, 2022) Subject Mineral industries -- Canada, Northern Mineral industries -- Economic aspects -- Canada, Northern Mineral industries -- Social aspects -- Canada, Northern Mineral industries -- Environmental aspects -- Canada, Northern Sustainable development -- Canada, Northern Indigenous peoples -- Canada, Northern -- Social conditions Indians -- Social conditions -- Canada, Northern SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography. Ecology Economic history Indigenous peoples -- Social conditions Mineral industries Mineral industries -- Economic aspects Mineral industries -- Environmental aspects Mineral industries -- Social aspects Social conditions Sustainable development Canada, Northern -- Economic conditions Canada, Northern -- Social conditions Canada, Northern -- Environmental conditions Northern Canada Form Electronic book Author Southcott, Chris, editor. Abele, Frances, editor. Natcher, David C., 1967- editor. Parlee, Brenda, 1970- editor. ISBN 022801347X 9780228013471

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