Indigenous knowledge and federal environmental assessments in Canada: applying past lessons to the 2019 impact assessment act

• Main Authors: Lauren E. Eckert (Author), Nick XEMŦOLTW_ Claxton (Author), Cameron Owens (Author), Anna Johnston (Author), Natalie C. Ban (Author), Faisal Moola (Author), Chris T. Darimont (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing, 2020-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Policy-makers ideally pursue well-informed, socially just means to make environmental decisions. Indigenous peoples have used Indigenous knowledge (IK) to inform decisions about environmental management for millennia. In the last 50 years, many western societies have used environmental assessment (E...