 | Northern Indigenous Community-Led Disaster Management and Sustainable Energy Subjects: Built Environment; Economics Finance Business & Industry; Environment and Sustainability; Politics & International Relations; Social Sciences; Energy; Environmental Policy; Environment & Society; Industry & Industrial Studies; Environmental Management; Regulatory Policy; Anthropology - Soc Sci; Energy policy and economics; Energy Industries & Utilities; Environmental Impact Assessment; Energy Policy; Indigenous Peoples; This book examines how current energy and water management processes affect Indigenous communities in North America, with a specific focus on Canada. Currently, there is no known Indigenous community-led strategic environmental assessment (ICSEA) tool for developing community-led solutions for pipeline leaks management and energy resiliency. Filling this lacuna, this book draws on expertise from Indigenous Elders, Knowledge-keepers and leaders representing communities who are highly affected by pipeline leaks. These accounts highlight the importance of providing Indigenous communities with technical information and advice, allowing them to practice community-led disaster management, and giving them direct access to lawyers and decision-makers. If implemented into current policy and practice, these tools would succeed in helping rural Indigenous communities make strategic choices for sustainable energy management and utilize their lands, traditional territories and natural resources to develop a robust, sustainable energy future. Prioritizing Indigenous perspectives on energy management and governance, this book will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners working in the fields of energy policy and justice, environmental sociology and Indigenous studies. Ranjan Datta is Canada Research Chair II in Community Disaster Research at Indigenous Studies, Department of Humanities, Mount Royal University, Calgary. Alberta, Canada. Ranjan's research interests include advocating for Indigenous environmental sustainability, Indigenous water and energy justice, critical anti-racist climate change resilience, land-based education, and cross-cultural community research Margot Hurlbert is Canada Research Chair in Climate Change, Energy and Sustainability Policy at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Regina, Canada. Margot's scholarship concerns climate change, energy, Indigenous peoples, water, droughts, floods, water governance and sustainability and is an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change author William Marion is a Cree First Nation Knowledge-keeper from James Smith Cree Nation, Saskatchewan, Canada. He has been serving as the President of the First Nation Water and Infrastructure Management. |
