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Navigating the Tensions in Collaborative Watershed Governance : Water Governance and Indigenous Communities in British Columbia, Canada Simms, Rosie; Harris, Leila; Joe, Nadia; Bakker, Karen
Abstract
First Nations in British Columbia (BC), Canada, have historically been—and largely continue to be—excluded from colonial governments’ decision-making and management frameworks for fresh water. However, in light of recent legal and legislative changes, and also changes in water governance and policy, there is growing emphasis in scholarship and among legal, policy and advocacy communities on shifting water governance away from a centralized single authority towards an approach that is watershed-based, collaborative, and involves First Nations as central to decisionmaking processes. Drawing on community-based research, interviews with First Nations natural resource staff and community members, and document review, the paper analyzes the tensions in collaborative water governance, by identifying First Nations’ concerns within the current water governance system and exploring how a move towards collaborative watershed governance may serve to either address, or further entrench, these concerns. This paper concludes with recommendations for collaborative water governance frameworks which are specifically focused on British Columbia, but which have relevance to broader debates over Indigenous water governance.
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Navigating the Tensions in Collaborative Watershed Governance : Water Governance and Indigenous Communities in British Columbia, Canada
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2016-06
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First Nations in British Columbia (BC), Canada, have historically been—and largely
continue to be—excluded from colonial governments’ decision-making and
management frameworks for fresh water. However, in light of recent legal and
legislative changes, and also changes in water governance and policy, there is growing
emphasis in scholarship and among legal, policy and advocacy communities on shifting
water governance away from a centralized single authority towards an approach that is
watershed-based, collaborative, and involves First Nations as central to decisionmaking
processes. Drawing on community-based research, interviews with First Nations
natural resource staff and community members, and document review, the paper
analyzes the tensions in collaborative water governance, by identifying First Nations’
concerns within the current water governance system and exploring how a move
towards collaborative watershed governance may serve to either address, or further
entrench, these concerns. This paper concludes with recommendations for collaborative
water governance frameworks which are specifically focused on British Columbia, but
which have relevance to broader debates over Indigenous water governance.
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eng
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2018-07-01
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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10.14288/1.0340930
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Simms, R., Harris, L., Joe, N., & Bakker, K. (2016). Navigating the tensions in collaborative watershed governance: Water governance and indigenous communities in British Columbia, Canada. Geoforum, 73, 6-16.
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10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.04.005
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Reviewed
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Faculty; Graduate
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