A table for five: Stakeholder perceptions of water governance in Alberta

Montgomery, Jenna; Xu, Wei; Bjørnlund, Henning; Edwards, Jane

doi:10.1016/j.agwat.2016.04.013

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“…However, the three watershed plan outliers (in terms of keyword frequency and thematic diversity) challenged the spatial relationship found in the other plans, increasing the strength of some relationships while reducing others; further research is necessary to understand why. Interviews with planners, committee members, and community leaders may help to identify potential factors in the significant variation in documented evidence of Indigenous engagement across, and diversity of engagement within, plan documents (Montgomery et al, 2016;Morton et al, 2012). This will provide further insight into the barriers to and opportunities for Indigenous participation and inclusion in the planning process.…”

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“…In addition to that mentioned above, prior research into the participation and inclusion of Indigenous Peoples in Canadian resource management consistently identifies social factors such as financial and capacity constraints (Lebel & Reed, 2010;Morrison, Bradford, & Bharadwaj, 2015;Rizvi, Adamowski, & Patrick, 2013;Walters, Spence, Kuikman, & Singh, 2012). It also identifies fundamental political or structural issues that lead to institutionalized inequity and injustice (Basdeo & Bharadwaj, 2013), and the differing perspectives of those involved in planning and management (Ferreyra, de Loë, & Kreutzwiser, 2008;Montgomery, Xu, Bjornlund, & Edwards, 2016;Morton, Gunton, & Day, 2012). Other research has examined the impacts of land management and property classification on drinking water outcomes for on-reserve communities (Baijius & Patrick, 2019).…”

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Planning Around Reserves: Probing the Inclusion of First Nations in Saskatchewan's Watershed Planning Framework

Baijius

Patrick

2019

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Watershed-based planning in Saskatchewan began in earnest after 2006 under the auspices of the Saskatchewan Watershed Authority. Within a decade, a dozen watershed plans were produced following a planning framework that included technical and watershed resident committees. First Nation communities, or "reserves," exist within these watershed areas. This article probes the inclusion of First Nations in those plans. Using document analysis and keyword search, our analysis explores any spatial relationship that may exist between First Nation inclusion and the amount of reserve land in a watershed. The results of this research show that First Nation inclusion is limited in watershed planning in Saskatchewan. We see opportunity for more effective watershed planning through greater collaboration with First Nations.

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Planning Around Reserves: Probing the Inclusion of First Nations in Saskatchewan's Watershed Planning Framework

Baijius

Patrick

2019

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“…Successful engagement depends on understanding who to engage with (key stakeholders), for what reason (scope, purpose, challenge), from what perspective (culture, values), and with what methods (techniques and tools) [89,90]. Including a broader set of stakeholders provides decisionmakers with different kinds of knowledge which may be vital for a full assessment of a resource governance problem and for finding innovative solutions to it [91]. It has long been recognized that although planning is often represented as rational and objective, in reality it is inherently subjective and affected by social and political dimensions, as well as prone to unavoidable conflicts, famously described planning as "the science of muddling through" [92].…”

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Water Management and Irrigation Governance in the Anthropocene: Moving from Physical Solutions to Social Involvement

Ricart

2018

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The rising water turbulence in the Anthropocene changes the water research and policy agenda, from a water-resource efficiency to a water resilience focus. Irrigation systems, as examples of complex social-ecological systems, deal with both the uncertainty of ecosystem dynamics and the interdependencies resulting from human needs. The water-agriculture nexus is context-dependent, socially constructed and technically uncertain, and it should be analysed as a hydrosocial cycle, which likewise takes into account the inseparability of social and physical aspects of water systems. Water management options have typically been categorized as either supply management or demand management, and even though physical solutions continue to dominate traditional planning approaches, these solutions are facing increasing social opposition. Focused on the Anthropocene dynamics, how to ensure stakeholders' involvement? The value of stakeholder participation is to reduce the rigid influence of the technocratic state by devolving greater decision-making power to users directly invested in, and knowledgeable of, the management of natural resources. This paper aims to review key questions about water governance in order to promote the transition from being problem-oriented to proactive and forward-thinking management tools by ensuring social learning.

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“…Prior research on Indigenous participation in water governance and management on the prairies emphasizes improvements in the development, implementation, and evaluation of watershed plans and planning [31][32][33]. As part of the socio-political aspects of water, contestation and reflexivity in public debate in water governance have been given some attention, but this is exclusively focused on state-based water institutions and Western norms of deliberation [34].…”

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“We Don’t Drink the Water Here”: The Reproduction of Undrinkable Water for First Nations in Canada

Baijius

Patrick

2019

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First Nation communities in Canada are disproportionately plagued by undrinkable water and insufficient household sanitation. In addition, water resource management in First Nation communities has long been a technocratic and scientific mission controlled by state-led authorities. There has been limited engagement of First Nations in decision-making around water management and water governance. As such, problems associated with access to drinkable water and household sanitation are commonly positioned as hydrological or environmental problems (flood or drought) to be fixed by technical and engineering solutions. This apolitical reading has been criticized for not addressing the root cause of the First Nation water problem, but instead, of reproducing it. In this paper, an approach using political ecology will tease out key factors contributing to the current water problem in many First Nation communities. Using case study research set in source water protection planning, this paper explains how persistent colonial practices of the state continue to reproduce undrinkable water and insufficient household sanitation. Solutions to this ‘water problem’ require greater attention to First Nations water governance capacity and structures.

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A table for five: Stakeholder perceptions of water governance in Alberta

Cited by 15 publications

References 36 publications

Planning Around Reserves: Probing the Inclusion of First Nations in Saskatchewan's Watershed Planning Framework

Planning Around Reserves: Probing the Inclusion of First Nations in Saskatchewan's Watershed Planning Framework

Water Management and Irrigation Governance in the Anthropocene: Moving from Physical Solutions to Social Involvement

“We Don’t Drink the Water Here”: The Reproduction of Undrinkable Water for First Nations in Canada

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