Editor’s choice
Editor’s choice
This article examines the implications of undertaking community-based impact assessment (CBIA) in the Swedish context where Indigenous rights receive little recognition and the institutional planning environment is disenabling.
It explores how normative biases built into the permitting process for mines ontologically privilege non-Indigenous ways of defining what constitutes relevant impacts. The authors show how the CBIA, undertaken by an impacted Sami community together with the authors, attempted to challenge these biases by constructing narratives about future impacts from the perspective of the Indigenous community. The authors also discuss how the research itself became embroiled in contestations over what constituted legitimate knowledge.
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Past event / A webinar about land claims, land use conflicts, the state of Sámi rights and rule of law in the Nordic countries.
Press release / New data from LeadIT shows that less than 2% of total global emissions from the cement industry are projected to be captured by 2035.
Other publication / This brief helps local planners and stakeholders understand how NbS can enhance wellbeing through effective design, governance, and impact assessment.
