ONLINE: Weston Roundtable

media release: Who Benefits? Complex Relationships of Oil   Companies and Indigenous Communities in Alaska

Speaker: Maria Tysiachniouk (Visiting Fellow, UW-Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies; Chair, Environmental Sociology group, Center for Independent Social Research, Russia)

Abstract: Governance of oil in the North Slope of Alaska involves multiple actors that share oil rent with local communities. This presentation will focus on benefit-sharing arrangements between oil companies, native corporations, the North Slope Borough, and Indigenous Peoples. We will look at how benefit-sharing arrangements are organized and implemented, and how this affects procedural and distributive equity. Procedural equity is associated with indigenous communities’ participation in decision-making. Distributive equity arises when funds from the oil companies are allocated in an equitable way.

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This fall's Weston Roundtable lectures will be delivered virtually. An RSVP is required. The full list of fall speakers can be found here.

The series is made possible by a generous donation from Mr. Roy F. Weston, a highly accomplished UW-Madison alumnus. Designed to promote a robust understanding of sustainability science, engineering, and policy, these interactive lectures are co-sponsored by the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and the Office of Sustainability. These lectures build on the tremendous success in past years of the Weston Distinguished Lecture Series and the SAGE Seminar Series. The lectures are recorded and archived.