Holistic risk-based environmental decision making: A native perspective
Holistic risk-based environmental decision making: A native perspective
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DOI：
10.1289/ehp.02110s2259
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发表时间：
2002-04-01
影响因子：
10.4
通讯作者：
Stairs, A
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作者：
Arquette, M;Cole, M;Stairs, A
美洲原住民越来越关注有毒物质的影响。虽然风险评估和风险管理程序被政府机构用来帮助估计和管理与接触毒物有关的风险，但这些工具有许多不足之处，因此没有很好地服务于当地人。此外，资源并不总是足以解决土著人民的关切，土著决策者在政府对政府的基础上参与关于风险的讨论直到最近才变得普遍。最后，由于土著人民使用的健康定义与风险评估员的定义截然不同，也有必要扩大现有定义，并将传统知识纳入决策。讨论了第一环境恢复倡议的例子，该项目正在努力解决Akwesasne莫霍克族领土面临的毒物问题。该项目正在制定一种社区定义的模式，在保护健康的同时，维护和恢复长期以来一直是个人和社区健康关键的传统文化习俗。
Native American Nations have become increasingly concerned about the impacts of toxic substances. Although risk assessment and risk management processes have been used by government agencies to help estimate and manage risks associated with exposure to toxicants, these tools have many inadequacies and as a result have not served Native people well. In addition, resources have not always been adequate to address the concerns of Native Nations, and involvement of Native decision makers on a government-to-government basis in discussions regarding risk has only recently become common. Finally, because the definitions of health used by Native people are strikingly different from that of risk assessors, there is also a need to expand current definitions and incorporate traditional knowledge into decision making. Examples are discussed from the First Environment Restoration Initiative, a project that is working to address toxicant issues facing the Mohawk territory of Akwesasne. This project is developing a community-defined model in which health is protected at the same time that traditional cultural practices, which have long, been the key to individual and community health, are maintained and restored.