Environmental inequality and rights of nature among Indigenous Peoples in North America
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Colonial-capitalist systems promote structural environmental inequalities that disproportionately impact Indigenous Peoples and ancestral territories. We examine the role of a Rights of Nature (RoN) framework in articulating responses to environmental inequality through two cases of Indigenous Environmental Justice (IEJ) movements in Canada - the Idle No More (INM) movement and the Wet’suwet’en Nation’s protective actions. Building on previous RoN and IEJ scholarship, we ask: How is the RoN framework employed to address issues of environmental inequality? We find that INM relies on broad references to nature to respond to omnibus Bill C-45, adapting the Nature’s Rights Model, while Wet’suwet’en Nation’s actions align more closely with the Legal Personhood Model in organizing against the Coastal GasLink pipeline and encouraging recognition of Indigenous laws. Altogether enhancing sovereignty claims, we argue that RoN is a framework promoting environmental equity and a tool for resistance to and disruption of settler colonial translations of nature.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".