Indigenous peoples' negotiations with extractive firms in Australia, Canada - new book seeks to improve outcomes
"Negotiations in the Indigenous World: Aboriginal Peoples and the Extractive Industry in Australia and Canada", 2016
Our understanding of what determines the outcomes of negotiations between Indigenous peoples and commercial interests is very limited, in part because of the high level of confidentiality surrounding negotiations. This book offers the first systematic analysis of agreement outcomes and the factors that shape them, based on evaluative criteria developed especially for this study; on an analysis of 45 negotiations between Aboriginal peoples and mining companies across all of Australia’s major resource-producing regions; and on detailed case studies of four negotiations in Australia and Canada.
[Includes] Criteria for evaluating negotiation outcomes... Explaining and improving negotiation outcomes...
[chapters on Ekati diamond mine (part of Dominion Diamond), Voisey’s Bay nickel project (part of Vale)]