The extractives industry: (un)likely and (un)welcome partners in regenerating Indigenous cultures in Canada?

Luijk, Nicolien van; Giles, Audrey R.; Millington, Rob; Hayhurst, Lyndsay M.C.

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“…In analyzing SDP and the environment, the issue of scale also needs to be considered to account for the ways in which sustainable development and environmental objectives of SDP are unique across different programs, organizations, and places ( 8 ). The prioritization of economic growth over environmental issues, and the lack of connection between SDP and external public policy areas, also represent major challenges ( 8 ), as do the differential impact of climate change on women in SDP programs ( 18 ) and the influence of the extractives industry who implement SDP initiatives in Indigenous communities ( 19 , 20 ).…”

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Policy vs. practice in sport and climate change: the perspectives of key actors in global sport and international development

Ali,

Millington,

Darnell

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Front. Sports Act. Living

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Despite widespread, scientifically supported recognition of the scope of the climate crisis, and policies in place connecting sport to sustainable development, there remain concerns that the environment and climate change are rarely acknowledged within SDP activity and that even when they are, it is unclear how such policies are implemented, and to what effect. This raises the question of how and why the climate crisis and the attendant relationships between sport and sustainable development are understood and operationalized (or not) by stakeholders within the SDP sector. In this paper, therefore, we explore various perspectives and tensions around the environment and climate crisis within the SDP sector. To do so, we draw on interviews with SDP policy-makers (primarily from the United Nations and the International Olympic Committee) and SDP practitioners living and working in the global South in order to gauge the place of the environment and climate change in their everyday SDP policy-making, programming and practices. Overall, the data shows that while SDP stakeholders recognize the urgency of the climate crisis, the need for action, and the policy agenda linking sport to sustainable development, significant barriers, tensions and politics are still in place that prevent consistent climate action within SDP. Policy commitments and coherence are therefore needed in order to make climate action a core feature of SDP activity and practice.

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Policy vs. practice in sport and climate change: the perspectives of key actors in global sport and international development

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Darnell

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“…Junior mining companies, typically involved with exploration and early-stage development activities, lacked the revenue and long-term operations to sustain major, multi-year commitments to Indigenous partners. In contrast, companies with multi-generational, high-quality properties, Suncor in northern Alberta (Suncor, 2022.;van Luijk et al, 2021), Vale's Voisey's Bay property (Gibson, 2006;Pain & Paddon, 2008), Cameco in northern Saskatchewan, and potentially the Baffinland iron ore project in Nunavut (Bernauer, 2019;Schwartz, 2016) have both the financial resources and the long-term planning horizon to warrant extended relationships with local communities. Industry-leading practises emerged on both the corporate (Newmont (2021), Agnico Eagle (Agnico Eagle, 2021), Victoria Gold (Victoria Gold, 2022)) and Indigenous sides (Tahltan in Northwest British Columbia (Tahltan Central Government, 2020), the Inuit of Northern Quebec (Bird & Nixon, 2004) and Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in in the Yukon).…”

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Local Communities and the Mining Industry

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2023

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This book explores the challenges and opportunities at the intersection of the global mining sector and local communities by focusing on a number of international cases drawn from various locations in Canada, the Philippines, and Scandinavia.Mining's contribution to economic development varies greatly across countries. In some, it has been a major engine of development, but in others, disputes have erupted over land use, property rights, environmental damage, and revenue sharing. Corporate social responsibility programs are increasingly relied upon to manage company-community relations, yet conflicts persist in many settings, with significant costs for companies and communities. Exploring the many factors and drivers that characterize relationships among different actors within the sector, the volume contributes towards the development of practical wisdom, collective understanding, common sense, and prudence required for the mining sector and community partners to realize the economic potential and social and environmental responsibilities of non-renewable resource development. The book examines case studies from Canada, Scandinavia, and the Philippines, three regions amongst the world's top countries of mining operations. Drawing on their extensive experience in these regions, the contributors explore distinctive mining sectors in the Global North and South, the variation surrounding different types of extractive industries, and at different scales, and the legal processes in place to protect local communities. Key themes include corporate social responsibility, impact assessment, foreign ownership, Indigenous Peoples, gender, local insurgency, and mining disasters as well as climate change. The book identifies areas of future research and pathways to achieving stronger, respectful, and mutually beneficial relationships at the nexus of global mineral extraction and local communities. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the extractive industries, natural resource management, sustainable business and corporate social responsibility, Indigenous studies, and sustainable planning and development.

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Indigenous Feminist Gikendaasowin (Knowledge): Decolonization Through Physical Activity

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2022

Sociology of Sport Journal

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The extractives industry: (un)likely and (un)welcome partners in regenerating Indigenous cultures in Canada?

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Policy vs. practice in sport and climate change: the perspectives of key actors in global sport and international development

Policy vs. practice in sport and climate change: the perspectives of key actors in global sport and international development

Local Communities and the Mining Industry

Indigenous Feminist Gikendaasowin (Knowledge): Decolonization Through Physical Activity

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