Water governance and Indigenous governance: Towards a synthesis

摘要: In Canada, Indigenous peoples have sui generis rights and millennia of stewardship on their traditional homelands. However, non-Indigenous understandings those rights, let alone knowledge history, knowledge, understanding governance self-determination goals, is generally poor in Canadian society. This paper explores the conceptual gap that exists between underlying principles, values norms within specific context contemporary water Canada. The province British Columbia, Canada used as an empirical setting to illustrate issues considered. this province, numerous organizations involved are attempting collaborate with First Nations address issues. questions assumptions collaborative literature relative assertions surrounding found scholarship. We conclude (1) both scholarship practice do not sufficiently concerns relating governance, pre-and post-colonial varying concepts self-determination, (2) ability processes current emerging challenges realm depends part extent which held by can be reconciled.