Indigenous Rights and Multilevel Governance: Learning From the Northwest Territories Water Stewardship Strategy
States’ increasing recognition of Indigenous rights in the realm of natural resources has led to a variety of co-management arrangements and other forms of melded authority, evolving over time into increasingly complex governance relationships. This article takes up such relationships within the ana...
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| description | States’ increasing recognition of Indigenous rights in the realm of natural resources has led to a variety of co-management arrangements and other forms of melded authority, evolving over time into increasingly complex governance relationships. This article takes up such relationships within the analytical frame of multilevel governance, seeking lessons from the experiences of Indigenous involvement in water policy in Canada’s Northwest Territories (NWT). It examines the way that effective collaboration in resource governance can emerge within the space of tension between evolving Indigenous rights regimes and the continued sovereignty of the state. At the same time, the analysis raises questions about whether multilevel governance can contribute to meaningful decolonization of relationships between settler states and Indigenous Peoples. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bc160d656b15487ca8f62931376b4d492022-12-21T19:41:37ZengUniversity of Western OntarioInternational Indigenous Policy Journal1916-57811916-57812018-06-019210.18584/iipj.2018.9.2.4Indigenous Rights and Multilevel Governance: Learning From the Northwest Territories Water Stewardship StrategyAlex Latta0Wilfred Laurier UniversityStates’ increasing recognition of Indigenous rights in the realm of natural resources has led to a variety of co-management arrangements and other forms of melded authority, evolving over time into increasingly complex governance relationships. This article takes up such relationships within the analytical frame of multilevel governance, seeking lessons from the experiences of Indigenous involvement in water policy in Canada’s Northwest Territories (NWT). It examines the way that effective collaboration in resource governance can emerge within the space of tension between evolving Indigenous rights regimes and the continued sovereignty of the state. At the same time, the analysis raises questions about whether multilevel governance can contribute to meaningful decolonization of relationships between settler states and Indigenous Peoples.https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/iipj/vol9/iss2/4/Indigenous rightsmultilevel governancenatural resourceswater policy |
| spellingShingle | Alex Latta Indigenous Rights and Multilevel Governance: Learning From the Northwest Territories Water Stewardship Strategy International Indigenous Policy Journal Indigenous rights multilevel governance natural resources water policy |
| title | Indigenous Rights and Multilevel Governance: Learning From the Northwest Territories Water Stewardship Strategy |
| title_full | Indigenous Rights and Multilevel Governance: Learning From the Northwest Territories Water Stewardship Strategy |
| title_fullStr | Indigenous Rights and Multilevel Governance: Learning From the Northwest Territories Water Stewardship Strategy |
| title_full_unstemmed | Indigenous Rights and Multilevel Governance: Learning From the Northwest Territories Water Stewardship Strategy |
| title_short | Indigenous Rights and Multilevel Governance: Learning From the Northwest Territories Water Stewardship Strategy |
| title_sort | indigenous rights and multilevel governance learning from the northwest territories water stewardship strategy |
| topic | Indigenous rights multilevel governance natural resources water policy |
| url | https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/iipj/vol9/iss2/4/ |
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