Browsing Environment (Faculty of) by Subject "Indigenous"
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Aboriginal Participation in Tourism Planning in British Columbia
(University of Waterloo, 2010-07-22)Tourism has been identified as a strategy for Indigenous communities worldwide to adopt in order to stimulate economic and social development. The goal of this research was to evaluate Aboriginal participation in tourism ... -
Collaborative Environmental Governance and Indigenous Governance: A Synthesis
(University of Waterloo, 2013-10-31)This study addresses a conceptual gap in collaborative environmental governance pertaining to the role of Indigenous peoples. Conventional collaborative approaches to environmental governance include input and resource-pooling ... -
Community-Led Energy Planning and Sustainability Assessment: A Partnership with Inuit in NunatuKavut, Labrador
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-27)Canada is a global leader in renewable energy development. However, electricity-generation differs dramatically in off-grid communities, wherein 190 of 258 communities rely almost exclusively on diesel-generation. Of these ... -
“That’s Our Traditional Way as Indigenous Peoples”: Towards a Conceptual Framework for Understanding Community Support of Sustainable Energies in NunatuKavut, Labrador
(MDPI, 2020-07-28)There is a substantial body of literature in North America regarding the social acceptance of renewable energies, particularly wind energy. However, limited research focuses on the experiences of Indigenous Peoples. ... -
Towards democratizing water quality monitoring processes for the lower Grand River and nearshore Lake Erie
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-01)Freshwater quality issues are among the most pressing challenges of our time. Such issues are increasingly complex and tend to recur when we fail to acknowledge the interacting stressors that influence them. One example ...