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Lands and Resources for Jobs: How Aboriginal Peoples Strategically Use Environmental Assessments to Advance Community Employment Aims

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  • Tyler McCreary
  • Suzanne Mills
  • Anne St-Amand

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This paper examines whether environmental assessments (EAs) influence the ability of Aboriginal peoples to advance community employment aims in resource development projects. Environmental assessment and labour policy and practices have been conventionally understood as distinct processes. Our investigations demonstrate that EAs play a significant, if indirect, role in Aboriginal efforts to regulate resource sector work. While Aboriginal communities increasingly rely upon private negotiations with development proponents to secure resource sector employment, participation in EA processes provides Aboriginal peoples a space to negotiate language around employment commitments and leverage to secure Aboriginal employment provisions in impact benefit agreements with project proponents.

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  • Tyler McCreary & Suzanne Mills & Anne St-Amand, 2016. "Lands and Resources for Jobs: How Aboriginal Peoples Strategically Use Environmental Assessments to Advance Community Employment Aims," Canadian Public Policy, University of Toronto Press, vol. 42(2), pages 212-223, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:cpp:issued:v:42:y:2016:i:2:p:212-223
    DOI: 10.3138/cpp.2015-061
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    1. Anthony W. Persaud & Terre Satterfield & Eliana Macdonald, 2020. "Counter-institutionalizing First Nation–Crown relations in British Columbia," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 52(8), pages 1602-1621, November.
    2. Caron, Joanie & Asselin, Hugo & Beaudoin, Jean-Michel, 2020. "Indigenous employees’ perceptions of the strategies used by mining employers to promote their recruitment, integration and retention," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 68(C).

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