Abstract
The Northern Review 48 (2018): 33–50The objective of this research and article is to investigate potential opportunities for standards to contribute to increased health, safety, resiliency, and environmental protection in Canada’s North. Specifically, we focus attention on four key topic areas where there are both unique considerations in Canada’s North relative to the potential role for standards and also a number of identified challenges: the provision of clean and accessible water, the provision of adequate emergency response, having safe and resilient buildings to live and work in, and environmental protection and management. Fourteen different opportunities for standards have been identified across these topic areas. It is also highlighted that there are also needs and opportunities in terms of better allowing for the inclusion of northern perspectives and input into northern standards, and three distinct ideas for helping to achieve this are presented in the article. This article includes very minor edits made October 23 after original publication.
Highlights
The objective of this research was to investigate potential opportunities for standards to contribute to increased health, safety, resiliency, and environmental protection in Canada’s North
Canada’s North has been experiencing significant environmental and economic changes in recent years, those related to climate change, which is amplified in the Arctic
A literature review was conducted in order to help identify and better understand the key topic areas highlighted
Summary
The objective of this research was to investigate potential opportunities for standards to contribute to increased health, safety, resiliency, and environmental protection in Canada’s North. One of the key motivations underlying this research is that northern Canada’s unique environment and geography often necessitates different processes, procedures, and technologies than those used in southern Canada, with a commensurate need for related standards to reflect these differences. Canada’s North has been experiencing significant environmental and economic changes in recent years, those related to climate change, which is amplified in the Arctic. These factors may even further necessitate the need for standards geared towards northern issues and realities
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