Natural resource industry involvement in collaboration for water governance: influence on processes and outcomes in Canada

Marie Claire Brisbois and Rob C. de Loë

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2017, vol. 60, issue 5, 883-900

Abstract: Natural resource industries are increasingly significant actors in environmental decision-making. Possessing vast institutional and technical capacity, firms have an important role to play in ‘new’ governance strategies such as collaboration. These strategies are often based upon assumptions of equitable influence. This paper investigates the nature of resource industry participation in collaborative water governance in Canada, and the potential consequences of that participation as investigated using power theory. The study used comparative cases to reveal that resource industries are able to shape collaboration, and the issues collaborated upon, at multiple analytical levels both internal and external to the collaborative process in ways not available to other actors. Analysis also revealed that resource industry participation in collaboration did not reflect a commitment to engage in shared learning and the reexamination of values and interests as presupposed by collaborative theory. Collaboration is thus challenged in producing equitable, representative outcomes when resource industries participate.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2016.1182899

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