Conflict Arenas in the Management of Renewable Resources in the Canadian North: Perspectives Based on Conflicts and Responses in the James Bay Region, Quebec.

The mandate of the working group for which this background paper was prepared was to identify national and regional interests and conflicts in the management of renewable resources in the Canadian north. Then to explore the means available to reconcile or to deal effectively with such conflicts, highlighting those that are resistant to effective reconciliation. In the paper I comment mainly on the means being tried for reconciling conflicts in …