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SUMMARY:Deconstructing Compensation: Benefit-sharing and co-dependency bet
 ween oil companies and indigenous communities in Russia and Alaska - Maria
  Tysiachniouk (Durham University)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190531T161500
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190531T183000
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DESCRIPTION:OCTF seminar followed by drinks - all welcome\n\nThere is litt
 le doubt the benefit sharing policy for Arctic regions is essential\, as i
 t impacts the livelihoods of thousands of Arctic residents who depend on l
 and\, sea\, and access to natural resources. It is important that the ener
 gy sector shares a portion derived from the resource extraction with the l
 ocal inhabitants in an equitable\, transparent\, and just way\, allowing a
 ll stakeholders to be a part of the process and outcome of benefit sharing
 .  This presentation focuses on developing the systematic understanding an
 d typology of benefit sharing arrangements within the oil sector in the Ru
 ssian Arctic and Alaska. Benefit sharing arrangements between oil and natu
 ral gas companies and indigenous communities were investigated in Nenets\,
  Yamalo-Nenets\, and Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Districts\, Komi Republic\, S
 urgut\, Irkutsk and Sakhalin regions in Russia and the North Slope of Alas
 ka.  The presentation provides a critical analysis of prevalent arrangemen
 ts and practices (modes and mechanisms of benefit sharing) as well as exam
 ines institutional and social underpinnings of these benefit sharing frame
 works.  It is demonstrated that Indigenous communities are not equally ben
 efitting from oil and gas extraction\, and no benefit sharing policy model
  seems to ensure a sustainable local development. This may stem from the m
 ismatch between benefit sharing policies and local institutional framework
 s\, as well as because of the differences in understanding of development 
 by indigenous people\, governments\, and transnational corporations.  It s
 eems that this research highlights general patterns of the interaction of 
 indigenous peoples and oil companies across the Arctic as regard to benefi
 t sharing arrangements. \n\nDr Maria Tysiachniouk holds a Master of Scienc
 e in Environmental Studies from Bard College\, NY\, a PhD in Biology from 
 the Russian Academy of Sciences\, and a PhD in Sociology from Wageningen U
 niversity\, the Netherlands. Since 1994 she has studied environmental move
 ments in Russia. Since 2004 she has studied the role of NGOs in global res
 ource governance and published a book Transnational governance through pri
 vate authority: the case of Forest Stewardship Council Certification in Ru
 ssia. In 2012 she started extensive research on transnational oil producti
 on chains in Russian Arctic and Alaska\, focusing on the interactions betw
 een oil companies\, NGOs and indigenous communities. Maria Tysiachniouk ha
 s written more than 190 publications on topics related to transnational en
 vironmental governance\, edited several books\, and has fieldwork experien
 ce in several countries and regions. She is currently Chair of the Environ
 mental Sociology group at the Center for Independent Social Research\, St.
  Petersburg and a senior research fellow in Durham University.\nSpeakers:\
 nMaria Tysiachniouk (Durham University)
LOCATION:Dyson Perrins Building (Herbertson Room\, ground floor)\, off Sou
 th Parks Road OX1 3QY
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URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/5a5947cd-d085-4078-ba29-4f6580005020/
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