A Voice At the Table: Strengthening Collaboration in the Governance of Environmental Agreements
Beatrice Hamilton, Jason Baldes, Gary Morishima, Elize Shakalela, Jeji Varghese, Roger Zetter, Aline Castañeda Cadena
Volume 22, Number 2 (2023) 22 (2): 15-25, 27-38
Keywords Indigenous nations, environmental governance, Inter-State Agreements (ISA), environmental rights
Abstract
A variety of Inter-State Agreements (ISA) have been developed to establish policies and expectations regarding environmental policy and management. However, governance mechanisms have not been developed to provide for the substantive involvement of Indigenous Nations within States to participate in the development and implementation of these policies.
Indigenous knowledge systems, rights, and interests are critical to the development of practical and effective approaches to address complex socio-economic-political issues involved in the sustainable management of effects on the environment.
Obstacles and challenges that inhibit the effective engagement of Indigenous Nations are symptomatic of the wider and substantial power imbalances and asymmetries that underlie the relationship with States. Governance of the relationship between Indigenous Nations and States over environmental matters can be improved by: adopting guiding principles to re-invigorate the modalities of collaboration between the Nations and States in mobilizing ISAs; and by establishing a new, permanent governance body, an Intergovernmental Relations Council for the Environment (IRCE) to facilitate and promote formal collaboration in Intra and Inter State-Nation working relationships involving cross-jurisdictional environmental issues involving shared resources.
Beatrice Hamilton
Jason Baldes
Gary Morishima
Elize Shakalela
Jeji Varghese
Roger Zetter
Aline Castañeda Cadena
Published January 1, 2023
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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