Bringing Together Indigenous Knowledge and Simulation Modelling to Assess Cumulative Impacts to Indigenous Land Use in Northeastern Alberta, Canada.
The capacity of environmental impact assessment to adequately consider cumulative effects on Indigenous territories in Canada is limited by several deficiencies, including the problematic use of recent or current state as a baseline, adopting a narrow spatial and temporal scope, and marginalizing In...
| Publicado en: | Environmental Management Vol. 75; no. 11; pp. 2960 - 2977 |
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| Formato: | Journal Article |
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Springer Nature
Nov2025
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