In this article, I consider the implications of cultural approaches to risk assessment for valuation of cultural loss in cost benefit analysis. Building on theories of cross-cultural judging I argue that rational choice models have a difficult time quantifying cultural values because they have...

New governance initiatives like co-management can be made effective through the use of agency rulemaking. Using the Mackenzie Valley Environmental Assessment Board as a case study, this paper affirms that it is possible for marginalized stakeholders to participate in new governance arrangements...

Indigenous governments in Canada are increasingly authorized to adopt laws that convert communally held lands to individual fee simple. They will convert title to fee simple in order to obtain the economic benefits commonly associated with private ownership and its securitization. However,...

The Nisga’a Nation, federal government and provincial government of British Columbia completed negotiation of the Nisga’a Final Agreement on 4 August 1998. Although the parties incorporated the language of nationhood, new relationships, and intergovernmental agreement, to many it remains...

This paper argues that new governance initiatives like co-management can be made effective through the use of agency rule-making. Using the Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board as a case study, this paper affirms that it is possible for marginalized stakeholders to participate in...

The authors situate the policy goal of Aboriginal Title and economic development in political economy and forward an approach that conditions the increased liberalization of Indigenous property against the concomitant ability of governments to control it. This requires a conception of Aboriginal...