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Ecojustice 
(Section Under construction: selections are focused on Canada but not exclusively so)
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Selected Texts
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A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice, edited by Stephen D’Arcy, Toban Black, Tony Weis and Joshua Kahn Russell  (PM Press  2014)

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Environmental Justice and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: International and Domestic Legal Perspectives, Laura Westra (Earthscan  2012) 

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Environmental Justice and Racism in Canada: An Introduction by Andil Gosine, Cheryl Teelucksingh (Emond Montgomery Publications 2008)

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Everyday Exposure: Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada’s Chemical Valley , Sarah Marie Wiebe (UBC  2018)

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From Love Canal to Environmental Justice: The Politics of Hazardous Waste on the Canada - U.S. Border, by Thomas H. Fletcher (University of Toronto Press 2003 )

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Reclaiming Indigenous Planning, ed. by Ryan Walker (McGill-Queens 2013) 

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Speaking for Ourselves: Environmental Justice in Canada, ed. Julian Agyeman, Peter Cole, Randolph Haluza-DeLay and Pat O'Riley (UBC 2010) 

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The Canadian Environment in Political Context, by Andrea Olive (University of Toronto Press 2015)

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The Right to a Healthy Environment: Revitalizing Canada’s Constitution by David R. Boyd (UBC Press 2012).

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The Right to be Cold  by Sheila Watt-Cloutier (Penguin Canada 2015)

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Articles (Case-studies, Controversies, Challenges):

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Alaska Institute for Justice. 2017. "Rights, Resilience, and Community-led Relocation: Perspectives from Fifteen Alaska Native Coastal Communities." http://www.akijp.org/policy-and-research/publications-and-reports/

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Angus, Ian, and Butler,Simon, "Should Climate Activists Support Limits on Immigration?," Monthly Review (online) 20120: https://mronline.org/2010/01/25/should-climate-activists-support-limits-on-immigration/

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Artelle, K. A., and  M. S. Adams  H. M. Bryan, C. T. Darimonta, J. (‘Cúagilákv) Houstye , W. G. (Dúqváísḷa) Houstyf , J. E. Moodyg ,* , M. F. Moody, D. (Muq’vas Glaw) Neaslossi, C. N. Serviceb, J. Walkusj "Decolonial Model of Environmental Management and Conservation: Insights from Indigenous-led Grizzly Bear Stewardship in the Great Bear Rainforest," ETHICS, POLICY & ENVIRONMENT  24#3 (2021) 283-323

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Belfer, Ella, Ford, James D., Maillet, Michelle, "Representation of Indigenous Peoples in Climate Change Reporting," 

Climatic Change, 145##1-2 (Nov. 2017) pp 57–70

 

Callison, Candis, "Climate Change Communication and Indigenous Publics,"  Oxford Encyclopedia of Climate Science, 2017.

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Collins, Leslie, McGregor, Deborah, Allen, Stephanie, Murray, Craig, and Metcalfe, Chris, "Source Water Protection Planning for Ontario First Nations Communities: Case Studies Identifying Challenges and Outcomes," Water 2017, 9(7), 550; doi:10.3390/w9070550

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Coté, Charlotte, "“Indigenizing” Food Sovereignty. Revitalizing Indigenous Food Practices and Ecological Knowledges in Canada and the United States," Humanities (2016)5, 57; doi:10.3390/h5030057

 

Deacon, Leith & Baxter, Jamie, "No Opportunity to Say No: a case study of procedural environmental injustice in Canada," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management  56 (2013) 607-623

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Dickson, Stephanie,  Webber, Sophie, Takaro, Tim, Preparing BC for Climate Migration (report), Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2014  (https://www.policyalternatives.ca/climatemigration)

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Grey, Eva. 2017. Arctic indigenous leaders speak up about the dangers of increased shipping. Ship-Technology (Feb. 2017).

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Habib, Allen  "Sharing the Earth: Sustainability and the Currency of Inter-generational Environmental Justice,"  Environmental Values, 22 (2013) 751-764

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Kornfeld, Itzchak E., 2016. The Impact of Climate Change on American and Canadian Indigenous Peoples and Their Water Resources: A Climate Justice Perspective (August 31, 2016). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2832879

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Ilyniak,​Natalia, "Mercury Poisoning in Grassy Narrows: Environmental Injustice, Colonialism, and Capitalist Expansion in Canada," McGill Sociological Review, 4 (2014): 43-66

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Matties, Zoe, "Unsettling Settler Food Movements: Food Sovereignty and Decolonization in Canada," Cuizine 7 #2 (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1038478ar

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MCLEAN-PURDON, Erin, "No Environmentalism Without Decolonization," The Community edition September 2016 (https://communityedition.ca/no-environmentalism-without-decolonization/)

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C. S. Mantyka-Pringle,  C. N. Westman,  A. P. Kythreotis, & D. W. Schindler, "Honouring indigenous treaty rights for Climate Justice," Nature Climate Change 5 (2012) 798–801 

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Marks, Luan Fauteck Makes, "Responsibilities versus Rights: Vine Deloria Jr. and Environmental Justice," American Philosophical Association Newsletters: Indigenous Philosophy, 12(2), 13-17, 5 p. Spring 2013

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McGregor, Deborah. "Honouring Our Relations: An Anishnaabe Perspective on Environmental Justice." Speaking for Ourselves: Environmental Justice in Canada, edited by Julian Agyeman et al., University of British Columbia Press, 2009, pp. 27-41.

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Perkins,  Patricia, "Canadian Indigenous Female Leadership and Political Agency on Climate Change,"  in Climate Change and Gender in Rich Countries: Work, Public Policy and Action, edited by Marjorie Griffin Cohen (Routledge 2017)

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Scott, D  "What is Environmental Justice?" Osgoode Hall Law School Legal Studies, Research Paper No. 72 Vol. 10/ Issue. 16/ (2014)

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Sniderman, Andrew Stobo and Shedletzky,Adam, "Aboriginal Peoples and Legal Challenges to Canadian Climate Change Policy" Western Journal of Legal Studies 4#1 (2014)

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Speca,  Anthony,  "‘Greenshit go home!’ Greenpeace, Greenland and Green colonialism in the Arctic," Artic Political Economy online: http://www.arcticpoliticaleconomy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140327-Greenshit-go-home-Speca.pdf

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Sweet, Victoria. "Extracting More Than Resources: Human Security and Arctic Indigenous Women." Seattle University Law Review, vol. 37, no. 4, 2014.

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Teelucksingh, C., Poland, B., Buse, C. and Hasdell, R, "Environmental justice in the environmental non-governmental organization landscape of Toronto (Canada)." The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien, 60 (2016) 381–393.

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Todd, Zoe 

  • (with Brenda Parlee) “Chapter 9: The Wage Economy and Caribou Harvesting”, in When the Caribou Do Not Come: Indigenous Knowledge and Adaptive Management in the Western Arctic. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018.

  • "Fish, Kin, and Hope: Tending to water violations in amiskwaciwâskahikan and Treaty Six Territory.," Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Inquiry 43#1 (2017): 102-107.

 

Trainor, S. F., F. S. Chaplin III, H. P. Huntington, D. C. Natcher, and G. Kofinas. Artic Climate Impacts: Environmental Injustice in Canada and the United States. Local Environment 12(6) (2007): 627-643.

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UBC Press Release: "Climate change could cut First Nations fisheries’ catch in half" January 13, 2016 accessible at  http://news.ubc.ca/2016/01/13/climate-change-could-cut-first-nations-fisheries-catch-in-half/

 

Williston, Byron, "Moral Progress and Canada's Climate Failure", Journal of Global Ethics 7 (2011):149 - 160

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Whyte, K. P. "The Dakota Access Pipeline, Environmental Injustice and U.S. Colonialism." Red Ink - An INternational Journal of Indigenous Literature, Arts and Humanities, 19 (2017): 154-169.

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Whyte, Kyle, Indigenous Peoples, Climate Change Loss and Damage, and the Responsibility of Settler States (April 25, 2016). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2770085 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2770085

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Organizations and Centres

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Black Canadian Studies Association (BCSA)

 

Canadian Environmental Law Association (Ecojustice Resource webpage)

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Coastal First Nations (an alliance of 9 BC First Nations)

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Ecojustice 

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Environmental Justice Canada

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FemNorthNet

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Pacific Northwest Tribal Climate Change Project: Tribal Climate Change Guide (research portal)

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RAVEN Trust - RAVEN: Respecting Aboriginal Values and Environmental Needs

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West Coast Environmental Law 

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