R SOC355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Great Bear Lake, New Institutional Economics, Northern Canada
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A critical institutional approach to social-environmental change: culture and conservation. Case of great bear lake, nwt (largest lake in canada, 9th largest lake in the world) Mixed economies but oil, gas, mining opportunities. Sahtu dene and metis comprehensive land claim agreement, 1993. Gives people more decisions on other things such as natural resources and education. Problem: opportunities to develop new institutions for nrm, but conventional theories inform and drive approaches leading to questionable social and environmental outcomes. More likely they lead to outcomes that are "same old same old" This is why things like aboriginal self-government exist. Social institutions: social practices that are regularly an continuously repeated, sanctioned, and maintained by social norms. Co-management: governance systems that combine state control with local, decentralized decision making and accountability and which, ideally, combine the strengths and mitigate the weaknesses of each. It"s kind of like we"re doing science, but there is no connection (to people, the stories, the culture)
