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Towards Comprehensive Conservation of Environmentally Significant Areas in the Northwest Territories of Canada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Terry Fenge
Terry Fenge
Affiliation:
Director of Policy Studies, Canadian Arctic Resources Committee, 46 Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5K6, Canada.
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A wide legislative base is available to conserve Environmentally Significant Areas in the vast Northwest Territories of Canada. However, existing conservation reserves have been designated in an ‘incremental’ fashion, without reference to a guiding plan. Intensive industrialization through hydrocarbon development and increased harvesting of renewable resources are threats to the integrity of many ESAs.

An anticipatory and comprehensive policy to conserve Environmentally Significant Areas (ESAs) in advance of industrialization is required, but developing such a policy will be difficult, owing to the complex political and jurisdictional ‘environments’ in northern Canada. Despite these problems, the recently announced Northern Landuse Planning Policy could be a vehicle for the implementation of a comprehensive conservation policy for ESAs, if only the institutional structures and processes that will accompany this policy are adequately designed.

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Main Papers
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Environmental Conservation , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , Winter 1982 , pp. 305 - 313
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1982

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