Non-market Valuation Biases Due to Aboriginal Cultural Characteristics in Northern Saskatchewan: The Values Structures Component

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Phillips, William E.
  • Murray, Eloise C.
  • Adamowicz, Wiktor
  • Just, Lesley
  • Hatton MacDonald, Darla
  • Beckley, Thomas M.

• Current non-market valuation techniques have been developed based on assumptions about values held within the Eurocentred culture. Contentions between cultures over natural resources are hypothesized to occur because of differences in held values resulting in different values being assigned to the resources in question. This study measured the held values of an Aboriginal band in Northern Saskatchewan as the first dimension of a non-market valuation study of natural resources. These held value structures are presented noting differences by age and gender and in comparison with the local non-Aboriginal community and another Aboriginal group in northern Alberta.

• Date created

  1995

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Aboriginal values
  • Nonmarket valuation
  • Canada, Saskatchewan

• Type of Item

  Report

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R35R4H

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 International