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Addressing environmental issues as Treaty People requires building relationships and partnerships that bring together knowledges and tools from multiple disciplines and world views. It is by working in the spirit of collaboration that questions can be answered, and solutions can be generated which are long term, sustainable, and meet the needs of the Indigenous communities whose traditional territories are impacted.
Collective Environmental connects the scientific tools available to tackle present and emerging environmental issues with community experts and knowledge holders. With this approach we aim to facilitate the development of solutions that are culturally appropriate and sustainable.
Collective Environmental connects the scientific tools available to tackle present and emerging environmental issues with community experts and knowledge holders. With this approach we aim to facilitate the development of solutions that are culturally appropriate and sustainable.
OUR SERVICES
- Support the development of community consultation policy and/or evolution of territorial governance pertaining to land use, environment, and extractive pressures.
- Provide expertise in knowledge weaving approaches to research, and resource relationships/ management.
- Conduct environmental risk and impact assessments and reviews, fish ecology and contaminants research and community-based fish consumption guides, community-based resource and invasive species management strategies, land use and occupancy studies.
- Work with communities to ensure scientific information is being accurately interpreted, communicated, and portrayed by government (and/or proponents and/or scientists).
- Evaluate and interpret scientific information (reports, studies, statistics) and communicate it in accessible language, identify gaps and provide insight on where the science falls short of answering community’s questions.
- Deconstruct and interpret environmental policies, frameworks, and processes and facilitate the re-building of these processes to better meet the needs of communities (e.g. facilitating the development of a co-management plan).
- Facilitate community knowledge collection and application to improve: decision making, environmental strategies, assessments, scientific methods, and monitoring programs.