This thesis addresses the situation of First Nations people in forestry of British
Columbia. Aboriginal people in British Columbia have been involved in the forest industry
as laborers since the 1850s when the commercial logging operations began in the province,
but have been politically and economically marginalized in the industry. The institutional
and economic factors not only have restricted aboriginal people to control over forest
resources on their traditional lands but have affected their forest management practices. For
aboriginal communities, it is a critical issue that protecting old growth forests, with which
they are culturally associated, without giving up economic benefit generated from harvesting
these forests.
In order to suggest possible changes and approaches for shaping native forest
management in the existing institutional and economic frameworks, I examined the issues of
provincial forestry and analyzed how these issues effect and interact with aboriginal people.
It is important but difficult for First Nations to obtain forest tenure because their resource
management is related to their land rights. However, the issues of aboriginal people in
forestry overlap with those of the province. Thus, perspectives and participation of
aboriginal people is critical for the government and the industry. Forestry of British
Columbia is in transition and has begun to consider the potential contribution of aboriginal
people to sustainable forestry. Therefore, aboriginal people have a significant role to play
in the future of forestry.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/11539 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Hasegawa, Atsuko |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Relation | UBC Retrospective Theses Digitization Project [http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/retro_theses/] |
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