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- Title
Les « Ententes sur les répercussions et les avantages » et le bien-être des communautés. Des occasions ratées?
- Authors
Knotsch, Cathleen; Siebenmorgen, Peter; Bradshaw, Ben
- Abstract
Over the past two decades, Impact and Benefit Agreements (IBAs) have increasingly been established between mine developers and Aboriginal communities or their regional representatives. These agreements are widely seen as a powerful tool to promote economic development and improve certain socio-economic conditions in communities, most especially income levels. Problematically, however, it is not always evident that enriched communities are wholly better off with respect to their health and well-being. More frustrating, few if any IBAs explicitly address community health and well-being; typically, IBAs are designed to deliver benefits, and these benefits are simply assumed to produce improved health. This is misguided and insufficient. Giving special attention to IBAs signed with Inuit organizations in Canada, this article echoes Knotsch and Warda's (2009) call for more research on IBAs and community well-being, and suggests, in the meanwhile, that IBA negotiators more explicitly consider community health issues and needs in developing the next generation of IBAs.
- Subjects
NUNAVIK (Quebec); QUEBEC (Province); CANADA; CONTRACTS; CANADIAN Inuit; MINES &; mineral resources; FALCONBRIDGE Ltd.; XSTRATA PLC; PUBLIC health; INUIT; MINERAL industries; HISTORY of Quebec (Province), 1960-; EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH; SOCIAL history; ECONOMIC history
- Publication
Recherches Amérindiennes au Québec, 2010, Vol 40, Issue 3, p59
- ISSN
0318-4137
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/1009369ar