2020 FRST Projects
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| Aboriginal forestry on the Menominee Reservation in Menominee, Wisconsin, USA
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| Indigenous involvement in the management and governance of the Torres Strait Islands: A case study of the Torres Strait Islanders
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| The traditional culture and forestry practices of the Bai Ethnic Minority in Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Dali, Yunnan Province, China'.
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| The herring fishery in the Georgia Strait, British Columbia, Canada: an exploration of multi-level governance, contradictions and consequences.
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| The Wet’suwet’en Nation, British Columbia, Canada and the Coastal GasLink pipeline: history, jurisdictional issues, positions, alliances and potential outcomes
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| The responses of the Indigenous Peoples to the fall in honey bee production in Xingu Indigenous Park, Brazil
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| The fire management regime of the Syilx Indigenous communities in the South Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada: practices and prospects in the Anthropocene
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| South Okanagan-Similkameen region, British Columbia, Canada: multi-level governance, Indigenous territory and settler interests
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| Kitasoo/Xai'Xais Spirit Bear Conservation: the road to reclamation, reconciliation and Indigenous-empowering eco-tourism in the Great Bear Rainforest, British Columbia, Canada
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| Land conflicts experienced by the Sarayaku Indigenous People of Ecuador and the link to the principle of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC)
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| The ongoing resistance by the Xinca Peoples to the Escobal mine in Guatemala
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| Conservation of Traditional Ecological Biodiversity in agriculture, forestry and fishing by the Dong Ethnic Minority in Hunan Province, China.
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| Can conservation be compatible with human rights? The Gond and Baiga tribes vs Kanha Tiger Reserves in Madhya Pradesh, India
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| 'A new Hawaiian Renaissance?' The Mauna Kea telescope versus the Indigenous communities of Hawaii, USA
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| The evolution and development of Uyghur community-managed fruit farms and associated policies in Xinjiang autonomous region, China
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| Indigenous Djap Wurrung resistance and community responses to threats against sacred birthing trees in Australia
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| Ecological Migration Project and Sustainable Development in the Three-river-source region, Qinghai Province, China
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| The Nooksack 306: Disenrollment of Indian Tribal Members in the United States of America
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| Demo Project-UBC On-campus Forests
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| Forestry impacts on Aboriginal archaeological sites in British Columbia, Canada
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| Impact and Implications: A Comparison of the Adoption of UNDRIP in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central Africa, and British Columbia, Canada
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| Lyell Island, the building block for successful Forest Land Agreements on Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada
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| Environmental protection and management in Qilian Mountain Pastoral Area: A case study of the Yugur Ethnic Minority in Gansu Province, China
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| Actors and victims: assessing the participation in and impacts of gold mining on Maroons and Indigenous Peoples of Suriname.
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| Forest fires in Australia: Indigenous communities spearheading the journey to resilient responses in the Anthropocene
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| The forest practices of Ethnic Minorities in Xiangxi, Hubei Province, China and the impacts of the government’s forest restoration projects.
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| Convergences and divergences among developers and the Squamish First Nation: the story of Garibaldi Ski Resort in British Columbia, Canada
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| Forest certification and Aboriginal values: the story of FSC certification and Taan Forest LP, Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada
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| Protecting the Inherent Value of Oak Flats, Arizona, USA from Copper Mining by the Apache Native Nation
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| The effects on the Haida and Squamish Indigenous Peoples of British Columbia, Canada from the operations of large forestry companies on their traditional forests
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| The Great Bear Rainforest Agreement, British Columbia, Canada: An Analysis of Outcomes
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| Indigenous community forest management in Chiapas State, Mexico
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| Between the rainforest and the world system: Factors affecting the Traditional Ecological Knowledge of the Waorani Indigenous People, Ecuador
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| The threats posed by the Belo Monte hydro-electric dam to the Indigenous People of Brazil
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| The causes and consequences of deforestation on the Awá Indigenous People of Brazil
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| The effects of forest degradation and palm oil production on the Indigenous peoples of Kalimantan, Indonesia
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| Land defenders of the Brazilian Amazon: the evolution of Extractive Reserves after Chico Mendes
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2019 FRST Projects
| Assessing and contrasting approaches to agroforestry by Indigenous and Tribal Peoples vs. the Forest Department in Kerala, India
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| The progressive inclusion and recognition of the Ainu Indigenous Peoples in Japan and the impacts on their relationships to their homelands
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| The Implementation of First Nations Values in the Context of Industrial Forestry by the Haida on Haida Gwaii with a Focus on the Haida Gwaii Management Council and the Haida Owned and Operated Taan Forestry Ltd., British Columbia, Canada
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| The Stuwix Resources Joint Venture Case Study: Understanding Decision-Making, Relationship and Forest Management Planning for Forest Tenures Managed by Indigenous Peoples in the Merritt Timber Supply Area, British Columbia, Canada
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| Indigenous knowledge and the implications for the changing climate: A study of the effects of colonialism on the Pikangikum First Nation and their traditional use of fire in the Ontario Boreal forest
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| The Legacy of the Alta Case: Legal and cultural impacts of Norway’s Alta Hydroelectric Power Station on the Sámi People’s management of their customary territory
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| Management of morel mushroom harvesting by the Secwépemc Nation of British Columbia, Canada; implications for Indigenous jurisdiction and territorial protection
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| Sámi forestry conflicts in Sápmi, Finland: The Arctic railway
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| A review and assessment of the sustainable forest management practices in the Kayapo Indigenous Territory in the Brazilian Amazon
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| Impact of the African Forest Landscape Initiative (AFR100+) on Aboriginal Forestry in Kenya: The Ogiek Peoples
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| The impacts of the policy of protecting the culture of Chinese Ethnic Minorities and forest resources on the Manchu and Oroqen Ethnic Minorities in Greater Khingan Range, Heilongjiang, China.
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| Assessing the management of natural resources’ activities on their Traditional, Ancestral and Unceded Territory by the Squamish Indigenous People of British Columbia, Canada
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| Analysis of the management of village fengshui forests in Guizhou Province, China.
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| Reflections on the Historical Relationships Between the Coal Mining Industry and Indigenous Communities in British Columbia and on Possible Impacts From the Transition From Coal-Generated to Renewable Energy Sources
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| The role of clam gardens in the cultural heritage of the Coast Salish peoples of the Gulf Islands archipelago and as a restoration tool adopted by Parks Canada in the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve, British Columbia, Canada
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| Māori and rāhui: protecting the treasures of New Zealand
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| The promise and the reality of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Land Rights Act 1981 for the Anangu Indigenous Peoples of Australia
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| The management of Huaping National Nature Reserve (Gvangjsih Bouxcuengh Swcigih) in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China by the Zhuang Ethnic Minority
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| An assessment of the tactics and strategies of the Ka'apor tribe of Maranhao, Brazil against illegal logging in their territory
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| Efforts of Peruvian Amazon Indigenous groups against deforestation and conflicts with regulating government bodies
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| Forest-based theogony from the Guarani communities in Paraguay and Bolivia, South America.
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| History and consequences of conferring legal personhood on the Whanganui River in New Zealand
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| The history and potential impacts of the Tsilhqot'in land claim agreement (2014) in British Columbia, Canada
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| A survey of the impacts following from the dispossession of the Mapuche People of central Chile of their territories by industrial-scale activities and Mapuche resistance
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| A survey and analysis of the relationships between First Nations and the forest industry in British Columbia, Canada
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| Inuit definitions of food sovereignty in Nunavut, Canada: the linkages between historical displacement from traditional foodscapes and Inuit food insecurity.
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| Indigenous responses and resistance to resource extractive and infrastructural developments in the Tapajós-Xingu region of Brazil (1980 to 2018)
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| Pre-contact First Nations use of controlled burning in management of grasslands in western Canada and/or garden fields in what is now Ontario and the Maritimes of Canada
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| Eviction for conservation: assessing the contested claims to Embobut Forest of the Sengwer Indigenous People versus the State of Kenya
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| A review and assessment of the forestry industry of the Lax Kw'alaams First Nation in Canada’s North West Territories
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| An assessment of the traditional, cultural and political struggles against eco-colonialism in the Independent State of Samoa (19xx to 20xx)
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| Contemporary fishery management in Aotearoa New Zealand: inter-Maori relations and the government’s role in redress
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| The impact of the rubber boom (1879-1912) on Indigenous Peoples and the forest landscape in the Putumayo River region of South America
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| Traditional natural resources management practices in Tibet
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| The political, economic and cultural impacts of the Quinault River Treaty on the federally recognized Quinault Tribe communities and their traditional territories of Washington State, USA
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| The Pacheedaht First Nation in British Columbia, Canada
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| Tree plantations versus the territorial claims of the Mapuche Indigenous People of Chile
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| The discourse of power in tenure relations: A Review of the acquisition process of the First Nations Woodland Licence in BC
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| Hisistorical and contemporary relationships between the Indigenous communities of Clayoquot Sound, British Columbia and the Canadian federal and provincial governments relating to forest resources management
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| Loss of indigenous knowledge and the implications for the changing climate: A study of the effects of colonialism on the Pikangikum First Nation and their traditional use of fire in the Ontario Boreal forest
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| Action and Partnerships Lead to Forestry Success for the Pacheedaht First Nation in British Columbia, Canada
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| Comparing and Contrasting Aboriginal Forestry Laws and Regulations in Canada’s British Columbia and China’s GuiZhou Province
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| Examining the Integration of Tl’azt’en Nation values in the John Prince Research Forest in British Columbia, Canada
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2018 FRST370 Projects
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