Northern Indigenous Community-Led Disaster Management and Sustainable Energy

Ranjan Datta is Canada Research Chair II in Community Disaster Research at Indigenous Studies, Department of Humanities, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Ranjan’s research interests include advocating for Indigenous environmental sustainability, Indigenous water and energy justice, critical anti-racist climate change resilience, land-based education, and cross-cultural community research. Margot Hurlbert is Canada Research Chair in Climate Change, Energy, and Sustainability Policy at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy in the University of Regina, Canada. Margot’s scholarship concerns climate change, energy, Indigenous peoples, water, droughts, floods, water governance, and sustainability and is an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change author. William Marion is a Cree First Nation Knowledge-keeper from James Smith Cree Nation, Saskatchewan, Canada. He has been serving as the President of the First Nation Water and Infrastructure Management.

1. Introduction 2. Energy Management and its Impacts on Indigenous communities in Saskatchewan and Alberta: A Scoping Review 3. Decolonizing Meanings of Impact 4. Human-Created Disaster 5. Community Perspectives on Challenges 6. Community Perspectives on Community-based Consultancy 7. Traditional Healing 8. Communities’ Visions/ Perspectives on Policy Recommendations 9. Leading Change 10. Conclusion References Index