Lessons Learned Through Community-Engaged Planning
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2017
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Patrick, Robert J.
Machial, Laura
Quinney, Kendra
Quinney, Len
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This article explores the potential for community-engaged planning to empower Indigenous communities to take ownership of planning and plan-making. We do this through a source water protection planning process with a First Nation community in Alberta, Canada. Access to safe drinking water for many First Nation communities in Canada remains problematic. Source water protection planning seeks to better integrate land and water management to prevent contamination of the drinking water supply. We employ a community-based planning initiative to develop a source water protection plan. While the planning initiative developed a successful drinking water protection plan it also served to built trust between the participants, respected traditional and Western values, as well as empowered the community. Lessons learned from this initiative are shared.
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
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community-engaged planning, Canada, Indigenous, First Nations, source water protection
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10.18584/iipj.2017.8.2.7