Compensating aboriginal cultural losses: an alternative approach to assessing environmental damages.
We first identify six primary problems with conventional practice: lack of context, inadequate participation from aboriginal communities, exclusion of important losses, reliance on market-based measures, neglect of uncertainty, and inadequate treatment of time. We then propose a different approach to compensation, based on insights from the decision sciences and structured decision making. Using case-study examples, we discuss how the proposed approach might address common sources of cultural loss and, in a concluding section, summarize some of the implications for compensation agreements and for environmental management practices.
Gregory
Robin
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Decision Research, Galiano, BC, Canada.
Trousdale
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D044467:American Indian or Alaska Native; D035881:Compensation and Redress; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000191:economics* / Q000379:methods*; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D018570:Risk Assessment