Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book offers multidisciplinary perspectives on the changing relationships between states, indigenous peoples and industries in the Arctic and beyond. It offers insights from Nordic countries, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Russia to present different systems of resource governance and practices of managing industry-indigenous peoples' relations in the mining industry, renewable resource development and aquaculture. Chapters cover growing international interest on Arctic natural resources, globalization of extractive industries and increasing land use conflicts. It considers issues such as equity, use of knowledge, development of company practices, conflict-solving measures and the role of indigenous institutions. Focus on Indigenous peoples and Governance triangle Multidisciplinary: political science, legal studies, sociology, administrative studies, Indigenous studies Global approach: Nordic countries, Canada, Russia, Australia, New Zealand and Canada Thorough case studies, rich material, and analysis The book will be of great interest to legal scholars, political scientists, experts in administrative sciences, authorities at different levels (local, regional and nations), experts in human rights and natural resources governance, experts in corporate social governance.

Chapter 1. Indigenous Rights and Governance Theory - an introduction Hans-Kristian Hernes, Else Grete Broderstad and Monica Tennberg Chapter 2. International law, state compliance and wind power: Gaelpie (Kalvvatnan) and beyondElse Grete Broderstad Chapter 3. Reindeer husbandry vs. wind energy: analysis of the Pauträsk and Norrbäck court decisions in Sweden Dorothée Cambou, Per Sandström, Anna Skarin and Emma BorgChapter 4. Indigenous agency in aquaculture development in Norway and New Zealand Camilla Brattland, Else Grete Broderstad and Catherine HowlettChapter 5. Indigenous agency through normative contestation: defining the scope of free, prior and informed consent in the Russian North Marina Peeters Goloviznina Chapter 6. The role of the Tlicho Comprehensive Agreement in shaping the relationship between the Tlicho and the mining industry in the Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories (NWT), Canada Horatio Sam-Aggrey Chapter 7. The shifting state: rolling over Indigenous rights in Ontario, Canada Gabrielle A. Slowey Chapter 8. Emerging governance mechanisms in Norway: a cautionary note from the Antipodes Catherine Howlett and Rebecca Lawrence Chapter 9. Paradigm conflicts: challenges to implementing Indigenous rights in Sápmi Kaja Nan Gjelde-Bennett Chapter 10. Revisiting the Governance Triangle in the Arctic and beyondMonica Tennberg, Else Grete Broderstad and Hans-Kristian HernesIndex

Monica Tennberg, Research Professor, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Finland. Else Grete Broderstad, Professor, Centre for Sami Studies, UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Hans-Kristian Hernes, Professor, Department of Social Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

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