Findings from the Series of Workshops “In Whose Backyard?—Exploring Toxic Legacies in Mi'kmaw and African Nova Scotian Communities”

Waldron, Ingrid

doi:10.1089/env.2014.0034

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“…However, others have noted that contemporary waste disposal practices in northern Canadian Indigenous communities have led to environmental degradation that has negatively aff ected the cultural health of peoples who maintain a strong and sacred bond with the land (Bharadwaj et al, 2006;Waldron, 2015). We believe that this is also likely to be the case in Labrador.…”

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Waste Management in Labrador and Northern Communities: Opportunities and Challenges

Keske

Mills

Tanguay

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This ar cle discusses the origin and management of waste in two Labrador communi es, Happy Valley-Goose Bay and Nain, and results from the qualita ve phase of a two-stage mixed methods research study. Results illuminate challenges and opportuni es associated with waste management in northern communi es. Like many regions across the Canadian North, the principal study area consists of a popula on centre surrounded by diff use, rural, and Indigenous communi es, mul ple land uses, and complex governance considera ons. We iden fy factors contribu ng to the accrual, management, and transport of solid waste in Labrador related to historical and ongoing colonialism. Among the considera ons are military development and mobile labour forces that generate both industrial and household waste. A combina on of remoteness and climate makes waste collec on, storage, and transport costly and slows organic waste decomposi on. Corrosion from municipally treated water generates excessive appliance waste. Limited local food produc on and remoteness from manufacturing and retail centres increases the consump on of disposable shipping materials. Despite these challenges, it is essen al to simultaneously recognize the eff orts of local grassroots ini a ves to eff ectuate sustainable waste management. We conclude that communi es may benefi t from implemen ng synergis c waste management strategies to reduce costs and public health risks, and to concurrently recognize the prac cali es of waste management in the North. Results of the qualita ve research phase led to the selec on of a priority waste stream, black spruce biomass cleared for the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric dam project, for an economic study in the project's quan ta ve research phase.h ps://doi

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Waste Management in Labrador and Northern Communities: Opportunities and Challenges

Keske

Mills

Tanguay

et al. 2018

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“…Evidence shows this is currently the case in Canada where climate policy and resilience-building strategies have focused predominantly on mainstream Western Canadian worldviews (Ford et al, 2005;Ford et al, 2010;Simmons, 2020;Waldron, 2021aWaldron, , 2021bWalker, 2021).…”

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“…This has resulted in the introduction of resilience-building strategies or capacity-building initiatives mostly based on the Western worldviews of mainstream Canadians that do not meet the specific needs of BIPOC populations. Waldron's (2021aWaldron's ( , 2021b study on climate change adaptation policies in Canada revealed that climate resilience-building policies generally fail to acknowledge that climate change impacts are inequitable. Given their unique socio-cultural backgrounds and experiences, most BIPOC populations, including sub-Saharan African immigrants, face climate challenges differently from mainstream Canadians.…”

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Enhancing community resilience to climate change disasters: Learning experience within and from sub‐Saharan black immigrant communities in western Canada

Acharibasam

Datta

2023

Sustainable Development

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Enhancing community capacity towards resilience is key to reducing climate disaster risk, especially in Black immigrant communities in Canada. While there are many extreme climate change events occurring, such as hailstorms, floods, snowstorms, forest fires, droughts, and heat waves in western Canada, there is no known study that has explored resilience within sub‐Saharan African immigrant communities to climate disaster risks in western Canada. All these extreme climate change events have devastated Black populations threatening their ability to cope with disaster risks. Following a decolonial phenomenology methodological framework research approach; our study explores sub‐Saharan African immigrant communities' adaptation strategies to address climate disaster risk in western Canada. In this research, our main purpose was to investigate whether community resilience strategies implemented by the two provinces (Saskatchewan and Alberta) meet the unique needs of sub‐Saharan African Immigrants. By exploring local communities' perspectives on climate change, we highlighted the relevance of inclusivity in climate capacity building to reduce disaster risk and cope with climate change‐related disasters in the localities. Our findings revealed that personal experiences with climate change risks significantly influenced communities' strength and resilience and contributed to their resilience strategies. We view this paper as a first step in developing a community‐led climate change resilience research agenda that will have a practical application for the community in the face of climate change in Canada.

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“…Certainly, institutional and systemic racism continue to have observably damaging consequences upon African Nova Scotians. These consequences are related to, for example, environmental health inequities (Kisley et al 2008), proximity to toxic facilities and environmental hazards (Waldron 2015), and housing tenure, access, and affordability (Clairmont and Magill 1999), among others. The twentieth century witnessed Viola Desmond's spirit of resistance when she famously defied a civic ordinance by sitting in the whites-only section of a small-town movie theatre.…”

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Purposeful Programming for Priority Populations as a Social Justice Initiative

Robinson¹,

Young²,

Orr³

2020

Handbook of Social Justice Interventions in Education

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A concern for social justice has been a cornerstone of St. Francis Xavier University, located in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada, since its founding in 1853. Within the university's School of Education (SOE), social justice is a strong and constituent feature of educational members' daily work. This chapter focuses specific attention on how social justice continues to be enacted within the two departments that comprise the SOE: Teacher Education and Curriculum and Leadership. Written from a first-hand account by the administrative team (dean and two department chairs), this chapter explores the purposeful programming initiatives that have been introduced to address the exclusion and marginalization

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Findings from the Series of Workshops “In Whose Backyard?—Exploring Toxic Legacies in Mi'kmaw and African Nova Scotian Communities”

Cited by 8 publications

References 8 publications

Waste Management in Labrador and Northern Communities: Opportunities and Challenges

Waste Management in Labrador and Northern Communities: Opportunities and Challenges

Enhancing community resilience to climate change disasters: Learning experience within and from sub‐Saharan black immigrant communities in western Canada

Purposeful Programming for Priority Populations as a Social Justice Initiative

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