How Indigenous Knowledge Can Strengthen Energy and Environmental Risk Assessments
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Discovery of the day · Political Science
Improving risk and impact assessments via sustainability guidance from Anishinaabe Gikendaasowin (Anishinaabe-specific Indigenous Knowledge)
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Social Sciences · Political Science
Discovery of the day
A new study demonstrates how Anishinaabe Gikendaasowin (Anishinaabe-specific Indigenous Knowledge) can systematically improve the quality of environmental and energy sustainability risk and impact assessments used in policy and regulation. The researchers, drawing on decades of collaborative work with Indigenous knowledge holders, identified specific frameworks and indicators from this philosophy that are often missing from conventional Western assessment models. For a retired public servant who handled energy and IT procurement for a progressive state and who embraces all faiths as divine in origin, this work offers a practical, respectful path for integrating diverse worldviews into the governance of energy and natural resources, aligning policy with lived spiritual and ecological wisdom.
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